Most recently, I served as Chief Culture Officer for BCW, a global integrated communications agency, stewarding the cultural integration of the largest merger in PR history and establishing a dynamic organizational ecosystem rooted in a growth mindset. In that role, I created the industry’s first mindfulness-based leadership development program, an intensive three-month course that trained 200 executive and emerging leaders and 40 internal coaches on every continent.

I’ve held talent and communications leadership roles at organizations like Citizen Relations and Plus Company, where I launched the company’s first diversity and inclusion initiative and trained managers to see themselves as “growth coaches.” I’ve also coached leaders, trained teams and cultivated community in the service of social change—reducing the stigma around mental illness, supporting early childhood development, fighting obesity and chronic disease in under-resourced communities and registering voters across the U.S. with Rock the Vote. It all started with my first-ever job as an AmeriCorps volunteer, which sparked my fascination with change and shaped the principles and practices that guide my work today.

I’ve been called a Jedi, a loving warrior and a magician. But I’m really a coach, a teacher, a proud mom and a stage-3 breast cancer survivor. And all of these professional and personal experiences allow me to help leaders and teams “surf the curve”—meeting complexity, volatility and resistance with openness, ease and joy.