You’ve seen this credential mentioned above, and here’s why it matters for you. Coaching at this level draws on evidence-based practices that have been shown to improve decision-making, strengthen self-awareness, and create lasting behavior change. Clients working with credentialed coaches consistently report higher satisfaction, stronger performance, and more sustainable growth than those who don’t. They also cite credentialling as increasing trust and results, as ICF-credentialled coaches commit to the highest standards of professional integrity and accountability, including ensuring client confidentiality and delivering consistent value to clients.

ICF's MCC is the highest level of certification available to professional coaches. It requires years of focused study and thousands of hours coaching hundreds of clients for coaches to hone their craft. They can then leverage this wealth of experience in service of you and your priorities.

At the heart of my work is my coaching and leadership training with the Co-Active Training Institute, which is built on the principle that people are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole. Co-Active draws on frameworks aligned with behavioral science, self-efficacy research, and well-studied models of change. It creates space for deep listening, choice, and growth, balancing being and doing in service of what matters most to you. Research shows that leaders and teams who engage in this work report higher self-confidence, clearer purpose, and healthier decision-making.

I anchor Adaptive Leadership in my work because it gives leaders practical ways to move forward when answers aren’t obvious and the pressure is high. Instead of relying on authority or quick fixes, this approach helps you and your team surface new ideas, engage differing perspectives, and take steady steps toward real progress. It treats leadership as something anyone can practice—an activity rooted in listening, experimenting, and learning—so the whole system becomes stronger. In practice, that means you build resilience, tap into creativity, and sustain momentum even when the path ahead is uncertain.

Improv teaches you to stay present. To notice instead of judge. To collaborate rather than control. To show up fully, and be fully alive in the moment at hand.

In coaching (and life), this looks like pivoting, breaking free from overthinking, and experimenting boldly without fear of getting it “wrong.”⁵ Laughter is welcome in our work together—not because we’re avoiding hard things, but because lightness helps us move through them.

Improv principles like ‘Yes, and...’ become effective tenets for collaboration, non-attachment, and forward motion in our work together.

5—Kelly, Kip. Leadership Agility: Using Improv to Build Critical Skills. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Executive Development, UNC Kenan‑Flagler Business School. White paper. 2012.

Your story is powerful. Let’s make it intentional.

With an MA in English, an MFA in Creative Writing, and years of experience helping leaders shape their voice, I bring narrative acumen (professional skill in working with story) into every session. Together, we’ll surface the stories you’re telling yourself and others, explore which ones need to evolve, and design a throughline that reflects who you are and where you want to go.⁶

Whether you’re preparing a keynote, navigating a career move, or making sense of recent chapters to chart your next step, we’ll use story as a tool for insight, alignment, and momentum—for you and those you lead.⁷

6—Cron, Lisa. Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence. New York: Ten Speed Press, 2012.

7—Simmons, Annette. The Story Factor: Secrets of Influence from the Art of Storytelling, rev. ed. New York: Basic Books, 2006.