My strength is leading groups through change.

I help teams and coalitions build the connections, clarity and alignment needed to make programs, policies, systems, and organizations more effective and equitable. I partner with leaders at moments of growth, innovation, and organizational transition, when tending to the human side of change matters just as much as a clear vision. 

Shifting hearts and systems.

Through deep listening and grounded sensemaking, I help organizations bring clarity to what they’re facing and get to the head and the heart of what’s needed to make change stick. I use collaborative processes to build shared power and co-create sustainable ways of working together that keep change moving forward. 

Equal parts strategist, dot connector, and bridge builder.

I bring structured thinking, intuitive synthesis, and relational insight to help organizational leaders navigate complexity with clarity and courage. I weave experience leading research and insights, brand and design strategy, and collaborative change management with practices from social innovation, emergent strategy, movement building, design thinking, and system transformation.

Seasoned practitioner, lifelong learner.

I’ve spent nearly 20 years guiding community, organization, and systems transformation. I’ve held leadership roles across leading strategy and design consultancies, including Design Impact, advising corporate, nonprofit, and philanthropic partners.

I am a co-author of several publications on equity-centered design, including:

• People, Place, and Progress: A Toolkit for Community-Led Systems Change

• Co-Designing Equity from the Ground Up: How Organizations Can Build Power with the Communities They Aim to Serve

• Pathways to the Future

• You Can Get There from Here: Design as a Map and Model for Better Organizations

I'm insatiably curious, a lifelong student of culture, patterns, the world around us, and what makes people tick. When I put down the post-its, you’ll usually find me eating something delicious, stomping in the woods, digging in the garden with my kids, or reading one of the eleven books currently on my nightstand.