As a faculty member at KOKORO, I facilitate leadership development and drive innovation through engaging discussions, insightful executive coaching, and skillfully navigated team conversations. Collaborating with diverse business models and groups, I help leaders cultivate the skills and mindset necessary to perform with high integrity and deliver meaningful impact.• Lead virtual sessions and immersive in-person events for organizations such as professional co-operatives and multinational incubators, adjusting content to meet each group's unique needs and objectives.• Provide executive coaching to empower leaders with the tools, strategies, and self-awareness required to navigate complex challenges, foster growth, and inspire their teams.• Facilitate challenging team conversations with empathy and expertise, creating a safe space for open dialogue, collaborative problem-solving, and the development of shared vision and values.Projects include: •Construction Co-Operative: Money and Assets Initiative •Co-led full-day in-person workshop for 60+ construction and engineering business owners in Chicago•Facilitated monthly virtual group sessions (5-10 participants each) over 6 months as part of 2-person team•Focus on practical applications of money management and exploring business assets and beliefsMulti-national Startup Incubation Festival •Part of 8-person team facilitating 2-day in-person event in San Francisco for the last two consecutive years•Ran 20+ structured conversations between LG company leaders and startup founders•Led small group discussions (15-20 people) about cleantech, healthtech, and AI solutionsEarly Education Center: Transitional Leadership Executive Coaching•Provided monthly 1:1 coaching sessions to interim Executive Director managing 30+ staff across 3 campuses during time of leadership change•Focused on practical team management and planning for new leadership arrival

Driving alignment and execution across sales, marketing and client service teams, enhancing CRM data integrity and leading effective lead generation initiatives to boost sales performance.• Operate as the first “face” of 8th Light for inbound leads. Quickly understand client needs, share relevant content to bolster relationship and coordinate meetings for sales team.• Partner closely with the sales team to come up with compelling, personalized outreach campaigns and complete ICP research for message relevance using white papers, press releases, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ChatGPT, Clearbit and Theorg.com. • Lead the NPS program increasing client response rates by 53% and scores from 67 to 71 from 2023 to 2024. • Responsible for sales data management and hygiene for over 22k contacts and reporting on pipeline, leads, sales forecasting and company-wide, department OKRs. • Coordinate industry events and manage post-event follow up in partnership with sales and marketing teams and account directors to expand client relationships. 3 Events in Q1 lead to 21 follow up calls with Sales, 4 new SQLs and 2 new partnership opportunities. • Led a month-long company-wide lead generation campaign, coaching employees on communication and prospecting methods to create 97 new SQLs and a 1 new, $200K opportunity. • Copy edit capabilities documents and sales presentations, aligning content with brand tenets and effectively communicating value propositions to clients.

Five years of experience supporting small business owners and founders through therapeutic contingent communication, reflection and visioning practices and exploring challenging thoughts and emotional situations. • As a one-person business: continuously held a client load of 8-14 SMBs and consulted on their product mix, operations and sales processes from many industries - client AR averaging between ~$200k-$1.3M.• Consistently retained 30% of customers YoY and transitioned 5 long-term customers into annual, $30,000 in one 6 week period in 2022. • Produce + host The One Year from Now Podcast: Thought leadership content for ideal customers resulting in new business contracts. Over 170 episodes with over 20k downloads.

Built digital course + community, Podcast Production School, to serve over 200 students then negotiated a $30k asset sale in 2022 (2019-2022).

• Responsible for full-cycle recruiting of Business Analysts, Developers, and Project Managers within the business intelligence and consulting industries. • Leveraged internet resources to find and vet candidates for roles through the organization. • Planned and oversaw all campus hiring practices at Washington University St. Louis. • Succeeded in making strategic relationships with necessary advisers, internal resources, clients, and WUSTL campus leadership. • Managed the Sense Corp brand on campus through targeted events and digital communications.

• Generate new athlete enrollment to meet and exceed monthly goals of the center by implementing in-center marketing and promotion programs. • Made 40-50 calls a day to potential clients.• Assist with scheduling and tracking of clients, and attend to all incoming communication via the website, telephone, and in person. • Facilitated training center tours with prospective families and athletes.