Everyone has AI now; almost no one has adoption. I bring three genuinely outstanding strengths — facilitation, 1:1 coaching, and speaking — to the hardest, most human part of that gap: getting your people to actually change how they work.
The path here
My path here has been unconventional. I earned my PhD from Vanderbilt University, then spent nearly three decades at the intersection of leadership development, organizational change, and technology adoption. I've led AI adoption for business units of 3,000+ people at Infosys Consulting — the work of moving thousands of capable, skeptical, genuinely busy professionals from “not another tool” to actually working a new way. I serve on the AI Steering Committee for its Workforce Transformation practice, helping shape how the firm builds agentic products.
And I don't only advise on AI — I build it. More than 100 agents built and counting, including the AI Chief of Staff that runs my own practice, with 15 sub-agents reporting to it. That pairing is rare: most people in this field can do the human side of adoption or the technical build, not both. Enabling and empowering leaders through AI adoption is what I've done at enterprise scale — and I do it as someone who has actually built the thing I'm asking them to trust. Along the way I accumulated credentials not as badges, but because each one changed how I work.
Through Agility Transformation, LLC, I work with talented people who are ready to grow: C-suite executives finding their next level, high-potentials stepping into broader scope, executive teams and boards navigating complex transitions, and organizations navigating AI adoption who need their people to actually use it. Whatever the engagement, sustainable leadership is the north star — building resilience alongside capability, not as an afterthought. My coaching spans four continents and 75+ corporate cultures.
These four numbers aren't four separate facts — they're one causal chain. Change management structure (6×) is what converts the human-side investment (70%) into real adoption (3–4×) instead of the disruption 54% of C-suite leaders are currently living through.
I bring a systems thinking lens — trained through the Society for Organizational Learning and System Dynamics Think Tank — to help leaders see what's driving the patterns in their organizations, and where the real leverage is. Not the surface-level fix. The one that actually changes the system.
And I do this work because I've lived it. I know from the inside what it feels like when the system you've relied on comes apart and has to re-form — and I know that what carries a person through isn't a framework. It's relationship: being genuinely seen by someone while you find your new footing. That's what I offer the leaders I work with, and it's why they tell me they see things they couldn't see before.
Why the mix matters
Most coaches only coach. Most facilitators only facilitate. Most speakers only speak. I do all three at a genuinely high level — 30 years of it — and together they're what makes AI fluency actually land and stick.
How I work
My job is to help you see what you already know but can't quite access yet. I hold every client as the expert on their own life, organization, and path forward. That posture changes everything about what becomes possible in a coaching conversation.
I work from a systems thinking lens — because individual leaders don't operate in isolation. I look for leverage points: the places where a small, well-placed intervention creates disproportionate change. Here's the part that fascinates me after 30 years — people are usually right about where the leverage is. Their instincts are good. Then they push it in the wrong direction, and the system politely does the opposite of what they intended. Catching that is a lot of the job. Every engagement culminates in your Leverage-Point Map — the 2–3 places where effort actually moves the needle, and why everything else you've tried hasn't. That's what makes transformation stick.
I pair deep personal insight with the operational discipline to make change real — stakeholder plans, structured rollouts, leader enablement, measurable outcomes. Vision and execution aren't opposites. They're both my job.
I build leadership resilience into every engagement — not as a wellness add-on, but as a performance strategy. The leaders who lead well over time aren't the ones who push hardest. They're the ones who know how to sustain. That's what I help develop.
Credentials & certifications
Certified Hogan practitioner — I measure reputation: how the people you lead actually experience you, not just how you see yourself. See why that gap matters →
The whole person behind the practice.
Finding the current and trusting it is both a literal practice and a leadership metaphor. I do both with my daughter.
I build agentic systems for my own practice using AI — staying genuinely fluent, not just theoretically current on what I advise.
Natural Habitat Evanston, the Environmental Justice Coalition, and pollinator habitat advising. Leadership and citizenship are the same muscle.
Rotary Club and League of Women Voters board member — because shared governance is where collaborative leadership gets real.
Whether you want a conversation, a keynote, or a full engagement — there's a path from here.
📍 Available for coaching, workshops, advisory, and speaking engagements globally