APPROACH
My approach centers on getting to know you and your team—understanding the unique lens through which each of you experiences and makes sense of the world.
I help you draw from both your personal and professional perspectives to decide and work in ways that both reflect—and thoughtfully challenge—your operating reality.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach, but these are some of the tools I rely on most—always adapted to the people, context, and moment.
Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing is a practical, evidence-based approach that helps people make sense of competing pressures and move toward change at their own pace. It treats ambivalence as information, not failure. Hesitation or resistance usually signals something worth understanding—not something to push past. It supports durable decision-making, replacing quick fixes with change that holds.
Conflict Negotiation
The strongest leaders and highest-trust teams invite questioning, disagreement, and challenge—not less—because conflict is pursued as a tool and experienced constructively in service of shared goals rather than as a threat to cohesion. I help people build comfort with conflict and gently turn the heat up and down to serve the work, relationships, and team culture.
Modeling Change
Change isn’t made through bold proclamations and high-level strategies (although that’s a start). It takes shape in everyday life: in how leaders make decisions, how teams work through tension, and how people move forward when there’s no obvious right answer. I help leaders and teams turn beliefs into simple behavior and change models they can turn to when navigating complex decisions in the flow of day-to-day work.
Practical Counsel
I strongly believe that people are the experts on their own work, but when advice is needed and wanted, I offer it directly and with care. It’s grounded in my executive experience, informed by evidence, and shaped by a clear understanding of the people and constraints involved. My goal isn’t to prescribe a single right answer, but to offer perspective, options, and judgment that help leaders and teams to consider and evaluate different paths.
Emotional Insight
Making decisions and change are psychological processes as much as they are technical ones. I help clients recognize and respond to underlying emotions—others’ and their own, both positive and negative—to better inform and operationalize decisions, rather than quietly driving them off course.
