About Me

I am a professional development consultant, transformative facilitator and leadership coach with 30 years of experience inside social movements, nonprofits, faith communities, and mission-driven organizations. I don’t consult as a corporate outsider to your context. I know this purpose-driven, change-focused work from the inside. I’m inspired by what you do.

You and your and teams are doing meaningful work under real pressure. What you need is not a formula. You need a thought partner who understands the world you are operating in, the personal stakes of staying engaged and the real joys that come from making an impact. That is how I accompany you.

My Accompaniment Philosophy

For over a decade I worked as a birth doula, childbirth educator and IBCLC lactation consultant, starting the first free-standing mother-baby center in Nashville, TN. There, I  accompanied people through some of the most vulnerable transitions of their lives. That work taught me what it means to be fully present with someone as they move through difficulty. It demanded deep listening, honest reflection, and the discipline to hold space without projecting answers.

That is still the foundation of how I work. Whether I am coaching a leader through burnout, facilitating team connection, or consulting with an organization during transition, I am an accompanier first. The work and decisions are yours. My job is to make it easier.

Who I Work With

With years of experience across the social sector, the people who find me and resonate with my work tend to come from:

  • Nonprofits and community organizations

  • Foundations and philanthropy teams

  • Progressive Faith-rooted and spiritual communities

  • Social movement organizations and coalitions

  • Social enterprises and mission-driven businesses

If you are doing work that matters and your team needs investment to sustain it, we are likely a good fit.

How I work:

I have an inclusive lens in everything I do. Everything in the system belongs and must be included. That means equity and inclusion are not add-ons to my work. They are woven into how I facilitate conversations, design programs, and coach leaders. I also bring somatic and embodied practices into my work, drawing on advanced training in somatic parts work, embodied conflict resolution, and Black embodiment practices. For mission-driven organizations navigating stress, trauma, and burnout, this is not a soft extra. It’s often exactly what is needed.

I work with or without the Enneagram depending on what serves you best. My extensive training in the Awareness to Action Enneagram model is available to any client who wants to be supported by an understanding of individual and team personality and behavior patterns and build organizational strength through their people.

I’m not a brand, I’m a person and who I am, including the personal lessons I’ve learned are intertwined with how I work, teach, facilitate and coach. I lead with humanity in my work.

I am committed to the flourishing of the people of the Global Majority, of those historically targeted by colonization, patriarchy, homophobia, xenophobia and all the isms. I believe this is how we all flourish.

I work with and support all who are committed to individual and social transformation, healing and change.  I’m not your average coach or facilitator, but if this resonates with you, you’re not average either. Let’s work together.

My Knowledge Base

Here are some highlights of my education and professional experience that undergirds my work:

    • M.A. in Intercultural Studies, Portland Seminary with NAIITS (North American Institute of Indigenous Theological Studies). 

    • B.S. in Consumer and Family Sciences, emphasis in Child Development and Family Studies, Middle Tennessee State University

    • Certified xchange Guide — xchange Approach

    • IEA Accredited Professional — International Enneagram Association

    • Awareness to Action Enneagram Certified Teacher, Levels 1, 2 and 3

    • Narrative Enneagram Certified Teacher

    • Certified Leadership and Transformation Coach — Academy of Creative Coaching

    • Nonprofit Lifecycle Consultant — Nonprofit Lifecycles Institute

    • Embodied Conflict Resolution Certificate — Embody Lab

    • Integrative Somatic Parts Work, Levels 1, 2 and 3 — Embody Lab

    • Emergent Strategy Facilitation Training

    • Training for Change Organizing Skills Institute

    Credentials And Professional Associations

  • IEA Accredited Professional — International Enneagram Association

  • Awareness to Action Enneagram Certified Teacher, Levels 1, 2 and 3

  • Certified Narrative Enneagram Teacher — The Narrative Enneagram

  • Certified Enneagram Coach and Trainer — School of Conscious Living

  • Personalities at Work Train the Trainer — Awareness to Action Enneagram International

  • IEA Global Board Member

  • Coach for students in The Narrative Enneagram Training program

  • Teaching Assistant for the Awareness to Action Enneagram certification program

My Writing

I am the author of Keep the Fires Burning: Conquering Stress and Burnout as a Mother-Baby Professional, and a contributing author to Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (AK Press, 2021), Becoming Like Creoles (Fortress Press, 2019), and Keep Watch With Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers (Abingdon Press, 2019). I have contributed to the Oneing Journal through the Center for Action and Contemplation and the NAIITS Academic Journal.

My article The Enneagram Is Not Just for White People, published in Sojourners, sparked a national conversation about culture, identity, and the Enneagram. I was also featured in the Los Angeles Times for the growing reach of Enneagram practice.

I have been a guest on many podcasts including Suzanne Stabile’s The Enneagram Journey, Enneagram and Coffee with Sarajane Case, and Care Work with Alida Miranda-Wolff.