I help professionals get moving in their career.Here's the plan:1. Schedule a chat.2. Do a series of 1:1 sessions.3. Step forward in you career.• Technical expertise got you this far.• Now the constant pressure to prioritize deliverables is keeping you in the same place.• The more you want to move forward, the more you worry that you’ll go in the wrong direction.• Gain confidence and clarity in your path forward with tools from a confidential coaching program.• Go from risk-averse to creative and highly regarded.Author of "Wallet on the Rental Car Roof: A Guide for Young Professionals Growing Their Leadership Skills"

FACILITATOR: virtual workshops for groups of 100+ participants. Each workshop involves delivering content, encouraging engagement, prompting reflection, crafting stories, and motivating group sharing.The Forem offers great programs to teach you the "unwritten rules" to career advancement including how to raise your visibility, maximize your opportunities, and open new doors - because you can be the best at your job and still get overlooked for a promotion, raise, or dream opportunity. Everyone should have access to the tools (and mentoring) needed to navigate and accelerate in your career - to crush it, level up, or pivot.MENTOR: volunteer resource for answering questions that are hard to ask your boss. Ex. how to inquire about the path to promotion and get access to new opportunities, what a new people leader can focus on to improve team dynamics, how to find new motivation in a downsized work environment.

[Casual Contract]• Leaders Development Day (2021-2023): Coordinated logistics for full-day workshop at Canadian Museum of Nature as first in-person gathering of all managers since 2019. 185 participants and 30 event staff. March 28, 2023.• Leadership Blueprint (2023-2024): Designed key elements of 7 half-day workshops (ex. psychological safety, modernization, feedback, active listening, accountability.) Facilitated workshops with a cohort of senior leaders (3 virtual workshops, 1 hybrid, 1 on-site) and with the full Executive Committee (1 virtual workshop, and 6 on-site.)

Lived in multiple countries as a digital nomad, challenging what is “normal” through experiencing a wide range of cultures and customs; and stretching the muscles for seeing new perspectives and alternative solutions; and increasing empathy through finding global commonality.Spring 2019: Turkey, France, Italy, Montenegro, Greece, Croatia, NorwaySummer 2019: Canada, USA Pacific Northwest, Southeast, DC, New EnglandOctober 2019: Croatia (started with Remote Year)November 2019: PortugalDecember 2019: SpainJanuary 2020: South AfricaFebruary 2020: VietnamMarch 2020: Thailand (Remote Year ended due to pandemic)April/May 2020: Ottawa, CanadaRead about the adventures and reflections at adrummiesbeat.com

- Advised more than 100 non-profit institutions through more than 150 real estate development projects totaling over $3 billion in capital expenditures, over 18 years at B&D. Whether recreation and athletics, academics, housing, or administration, these projects were integral to gathering community. - Implemented customized dashboards to show the impacts of different capital and operating choices for clients to be fully empowered in their decision-making, resulting in a full portfolio of athletics master plans for independent schools, and public and private colleges and universities.- Blended my professional experience with my academic and volunteer experience to make me a natural facilitator between administrators and their architects, builders, board members, operators, vendors, partners, neighbours, approving agencies, bankers and funders. I worked to ensure the whole team could navigate facility projects with transparency and strong decision-making to get the greatest mission-based value. - Set and managed budgets, identified and tracked project schedules, and defined and assured quality and scope, which all formed the basis of my project management skills. These skills allowed me to support the broader teamwork of assessing and engaging risks and stewarding mission and vision.

• Guided a peer advising culture for a team of twelve project managers spread across the country resulting in strong talent development and a 20% annual rate of staff promotions.• Managed the design and construction risks of a 103,000 square foot, $32 million university recreation center, from planning to ribbon cutting in 29 months.• Collaborated on the enhancement and adoption of various processes, technologies, and tools including master schedules, SketchUp, contract negotiations, file management protocols, meeting minutes, project reviews, monthly reports, and budget tracking.

• Led a team of six and hit our key growth performance indicators for 18 successive quarters (4 ½ years).• Oversaw the delivery of 19 school facilities (pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade) in a span of five years, worth approximately $240 million, while assisting to maintain the market’s confidence in the project schedules, for the schools to all have healthy first year enrollment. This included the selection, contracting, and management of various vendors including telecommunications, security, furniture, janitorial, and legal services.• Enhanced essential project management tools to monitor progress which required an excellent command of Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Microsoft Project.

• Delivered presentations annually at national conferences, to audiences of up to 200 facility operators, designers, and builders, on topics ranging from creating project budgets to crafting capital campaign statements, and from leveraging preconstruction services to planning long range capital and operating reserve funds. • Facilitated capital expenditure transaction planning, documentation, and communications with various banks and Boards of Directors, toward approval and execution.• Assisted in the gathering and framing of various statistics and trends in recreation and athletics.

• Implemented customized dashboards to show the impacts of different capital and operating choices for clients to be fully empowered in their decision-making, resulting in a full portfolio of athletics master plans for independent schools, and public and private colleges and universities.

• Crafted and managed a project documentation system that allowed for convenient access to files, efficient turnover of records, and empowerment of the new operators at the end of the project.• Worked independently coordinating the budgeting, selecting, procuring, receiving, and installing of a wide range of sports equipment and furniture, so that multiple facilities were functional as soon as they were open.

• Provided operational recommendations and capital planning options to enhance current and future freight, commuter, and passenger train performance along the Richmond, Virginia – Washington DC corridor. • Conducted site visits to dispatching offices and data centers, coded and completed computer simulations, developed Excel macros for statistical analysis of results, and made interim and final reports and presentations to the Task Force.

• Recommended technically, financially, and politically feasible improvements and optimizations to the Mechanical Department. • Relied on diplomatic interviewing, with honesty but not disclosure, and created project management tools as technology solutions to synthesize data to collaborate on a more cost and time efficient plan for locomotive servicing.