About.

For more than fifteen years, I have designed and led programs that help people, organizations, and communities navigate complexity with curiosity, creativity, and care. My career has taken me across four continents and into nonprofits, social enterprises, higher education, and grassroots organizations, where I have partnered with communities to co-create solutions that are both deeply human and systems-oriented.

My work has ranged from co-designing healing programs alongside survivors of human trafficking in the Philippines, to launching innovation initiatives across East Africa, to building university programs in Appalachia, to leading multicultural teams that support thousands of community-led development efforts. Throughout each chapter, one question has remained constant:

How do we create conditions where people, ideas, and ecosystems can thrive?

Today, my work brings together several strands that once felt separate.

As a social designer and organizational strategist, I help leaders and organizations cultivate cultures rooted in learning, experimentation, and collaboration. As a coach, I guide individuals through seasons of transition, helping them reconnect with their creativity, clarify what matters most, and move from routines that drain them toward rhythms that sustain them. As a writer and facilitator, I explore the intersections of curiosity, design, ecology, and meaningful work. And through Hedgecraft Care Farm, I practice land stewardship, herbalism, and nature-based education as reminders that regeneration is both a personal and collective practice.

These experiences have shaped what I now call The Ecotone Framework—an approach inspired by the ecological meeting place where two ecosystems overlap. Ecotones are places of diversity, adaptation, and emergence. They can also be uncomfortable. Whether you're navigating a career shift, organizational change, creative block, burnout, or a new beginning, I believe these threshold spaces hold extraordinary potential for growth when we approach them with intention and curiosity.

Across all of my work, I draw from human-centered design, systems thinking, coaching, ecological wisdom, contemplative practice, and deep listening. I believe strategy should feel alive, leadership should be deeply human, and success should be measured not only by outcomes, but by how we care for people, communities, and the places we call home.

When I'm not coaching or facilitating, you'll likely find me tending native plants, making herbal remedies, writing essays, wandering woodland trails, or dreaming up new ways to reconnect people with themselves, one another, and the living world.

Because ultimately, I believe the work of rewilding isn't about going backward—it's about remembering how to live, lead, and create in ways that are more connected, more resilient, and more fully alive.