Coaching provides an avenue for sustained personal and professional development through engaged conversations, active inquiry, and recognition of the leader’s impact on teams, organizational culture, and business goals. Individual coaching reveals often overlooked obstacles/impediments to team cohesion, engagement, and growth allowing for the identification of innovative solutions. I am passionate about working with leaders to develop creative solutions to pressing challenges they are facing, including: leadership development and succession planning; creating an inclusive organization; managing all types of change; and challenges specific to their business. I have been successful in working through many difficult challenges relating to people, business, culture and helping leaders achieve their specific goals.

Highly regarded instructor of psychology and social justice-oriented courses. Clients include: City College, Hunter College, CU Boulder, and CU Denver + Courses include: Intro to Psych, Psychology of Racism and Prejudice, Psych and the Law, Psych of Gender and Sexuality, Research Methods, Human Sexuality and Social Psychology. Develop curriculum for student-oriented online and in-person social science college courses Focus on inclusion, intersectionality, systemic racism, feminist and critical race scholarship and critical thinking  Facilitate discussions on difficult/controversial topics, including: mass incarceration, race, gender based violence Development of student writing though scaffolding of assignments Consistently receives highest marks on student performance evaluations

Social justice-oriented research using qualitative and feminist methods, including Participatory Action Research (PAR). Selected projects include: The Gifts They Bring (Institute for Justice and Opportunity, John Jay College of Criminal Justice), Qualitative Ethics (Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology), and From Targets to Agents (The Graduate Center) Qualitative Ethics: o Oversaw diverse, national team of 13 psychologists to develop visionary approach to ethics in psychological research taking into consideration advancements made by ethnic minority associations, community-based and social justice perspectives. o Developed collaborative process to present our work innovatively at the 2018 American Psychological Association conference and served as editor for special issue of Qualitative Psychology. Developed recommendations for ethical guidelines in qualitative research. The Gifts They Bring: o Recruited, developed, and trained team of 11 student co-researchers for Participatory Action Research (PAR) project addressing race, education, and mass incarceration. o Collaboratively developed research questions based on advisory board recommendations. Facilitated focus groups, analysed qualitative data, presented findings and wrote policy paper on challenges faced by students going to college after prison. Paper used in campaigns to advocate for increased access to higher education. From Targets to Agents: o Conducted research project addressing women’s vulnerability to and resistance against sexual and other violent assault, using participant observation, individual interviews, and qualitative analysis. Lectured at national conferences, published in scholarly journals, and created dance film to disseminate findings.

 Managed end-to-end process change project for Accounting Services resulting in 100% global and firm-wide elimination of paper-based invoice approval process Created functional design and implementation strategy, selected implementation partners and software solution through RFP process. Oversaw implementation, testing, rollout and contingency. Communicated process change to all GS divisional CFO’s to ensure smooth transition to new process Facilitated working group of global end-users to test application and provide feedback on design decisions Member of LGBT ERG’s: Operations division (2010) and Firmwide, as chief of staff (2006-2007)

 Managed pioneering team, migrating all invoice processing and T&E functions from London & New York  Interviewed, hired and trained 72 people, including new departmental manager to replace myself Mentored and cultivated leadership skills in multicultural team Effectively communicated to New York-based management including: migration status updates, escalation of issues, performance metrics, and career trajectories of team leads and managers. Advocated for greater inclusion and promotion of Bangalore team, addressing bias within the organization