My background

I’m not your typical coach—I bring a innovator's lens to leadership, and I'm hell-bent on helping you become the impactful leader you aspire to be. I've worked in the design industry for over 15 years—as a design consultant, educator, and business leader. I've helped teams at NASA, Cisco, Clorox, and more adopt innovative ways of working. I spearheaded the global expansion of Cooper Professional Education—a leader in design and creative leadership training—to ten countries. Today, I bring my strategic leadership expertise to bear as a certified Leadership + Executive Coach (CPCC, ACC, Applied Neuroscience). I leverage the tools of design thinking, coaching, neuroscience, and learning and development to shape coaching experiences that transform. My mission is to help creative leaders and teams become more influential, empowered, inspired, and energized—so that they can increase their impact, elevate innovation, and create products and services that delight and improve people's lives.

My mission

Brazen (bray·zn): Bold and without shame, made of brass.

This definition of my last name often has negative connotations. But, you could choose to be proudly brazen, too. I do.

For example:

• What would an empowered, brazen team look like?

• What’s an exciting, brazen approach to this challenge?

• What would it look like to be positively brazen in this conversation?

 As a certified Leadership + Executive Coach (CPCC, ACC), I believe that brazenness should not be like good china, preserved only for special occasions. It’s a way of nudging myself and others into fruitful discomfort regularly. Because, more often, it’s the combination of many small bold steps that lead to larger, more visible bold outcomes. It’s the choosing of boldness, over and over again, that gets you there.

Brazenness looks different for each of us—and it should. For one person, it’s being vulnerable in front of their team. For another, it’s making time for themself ritually, breaking the habit of being in service only to others. For another, it’s letting go of control and allowing their team to take the reins.

I separate this kind of boldness from the American, capitalistic idea of hyper-productivity and achievement. I’m not interested in you proving your worth, to yourself or the world, via your accomplishments. We are all worthy as we are. I care that you feel as fulfilled as possible in your life while you are here to live it. There are no rules about what that life needs to look like.

But, that life will look different if your fear, inner critic, or external circumstances choose for you. The version of living you’ll step into if you boldly choose for yourself, over and over again, is wildly exciting and satisfying. My hope Is that my time here on earth helps a lot of other people step into fuller, bolder, more brassy and unapologetic expressions of themselves. That they live brazenly, as defined by them.

Reach out if you or your team want help being more BRAZEN.
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