My years of expertise as a strategic communications professional and leadership coach can help you break free from the definitions that no longer serve.
I can help you open up new, fruitful, and impactful phases of prosperity and well-being. I can help you become your own iconoclast.
As a young girl, I was drawn to images, to icons. Women like Debbie Harry, Shirley Chisholm, Billie Jean King and Millicent Fenwick appeared to me as cool, complex, courageous and classy. I saw in them the kind of qualities I wished to embody when my life turned from childhood to independent life.
I spent hours in the quiet of my room thinking of these icons, imagining who I wanted to become—a woman who is intelligent, ambitious, hungry for knowledge and experience. Who walks through the world with her own style. Who is full of love. But mostly, I imagined a woman who is her own icon.
I enjoyed a varied and successful career in corporate communications that led to a varied and successful career as a consultant. I worked in financial services and bio-pharma for two decades before going out on my own over a decade ago.
Over time, I've evolved my focus from strategic communications to keynote speaking and leadership coaching. An extraordinary opportunity to participate in a multi-month intensive program to become a leadership coach connected me to new work and, more importantly, a deeper, more intuitive way of serving others.
I work with professionals who want to evolve, who want to challenge themselves and their career trajectories. I’ve helped scores of people discover how to manage change with confidence and grace.
And then, the final piece - keynote speaking.
My speaking platform focuses on the challenge of staying engaged in the world regardless of age, gender, or experience. I'm deeply fascinated by the power of icons to communicate meaning and self-definition, even communicate connection. Yet as fascinated as I am by icons, I'm even more fascinated by iconoclasts—literally, breakers of icons, of old thought patterns and old ways of doing things.
Being one's own iconoclast, in service of breaking what no longer works, can open up new, fruitful and impactful ways of working, of living, of Life.
Whether at a major professional crossroad, a challenging organizational transition, the beginning of a new period of life, or wondering how you became almost unrecognizable to yourself, the ability to recreate your present and future self is an incredible act of courage and freedom.
Through speaking engagements, coaching relationships, and organizational consulting, I help individuals and organizations break the definitions that no longer serve them.
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