I help awakening leaders restore harmony within so they can build a more balanced world. My background spans secular, indigenous, and psycho spiritual frameworks, merging earth consciousness with business leadership. Underneath it all, I bring the medicine of profound nourishment, so we may remember our true nature of resilience comes not from pushing through, but from receptivity and concretion.I offer 1x1 Deep Nourishment Retreats, custom containers for groups and teams, land-based community gatherings and ceremonial-grade food products.

Are you ready to really understand your world? To connect more deeply with yourself, and others? Wake the Talk UP! is creating a world of understanding by making communication everyone's greatest asset. We believe clear, impactful, and effective communication isn't about logic and power - informed by our own personal and professional experience, we understand that truly powerful communication supports collaboration, creativity, and connection. Our unique approach begins with your inner journey - softening unconscious blame and shame paradigms, and supporting sincere accountability, agency, and change. We approach communication as a multi-dimensional process, incorporating Nonviolent Communication, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness Embodiment Practices and more. We offer: - Online Courses for Individuals- Custom Corporate Workshops- Collaborative Negotiation FacilitationOver 60 business executives, political leaders, coaches & therapists have taken our program inner few months of existence. Join us for a communication empowerment journey that will ripple into all parts of your life! https://www.wakethetalkup.com

Multidisciplinary coach and consultant with entrepreneurial leadership experience across finance, operations, and people. My approach utilizes logic and intuition, draws on traditional consciousness wisdom, and addresses all facets of the human experience: emotional, cognitive, psychodynamic, and embodied.As a consultant and a coach, my superpowers include:- Getting to the-heart-of the matter, even in the edgiest places- Dissolving resistance - at an individual and collective level - Assessing individual strengths & interpersonal dynamics for optimal reporting & structuresIn my consulting, I help leadership teams: - Stress-test and refine their business's reason for being- Translate high-level vision into on-the-ground tactical plan across product, finance, and people - Build trust and enthusiasm around a common goalAs a conscious leadership coach, I help individuals: - Achieve greater intimacy with their humanity, strengths, and personal purppose- Attune to and follow their inner wisdom- Access their capacity for joy and purpose

Stewarded ~400 employee, 9-unit restaurant group’s transition from a familial culture to a professional, performance-based organization grounded in values, a Reason for Being, and a spirit of service. Partnered with founders to create a long-term vision and enduring systems & structure. During a period of massive to survive COVID, and continue to evolve and expand post-pandemic. Identity creation - Aligned disparate stakeholders around company's mission, vision and values- Refined brand architecture - Established roadmap for equity value-creation and compensation structure Established performance-based leadership culture built on trust and transparency: - Re-defined roles and reporting structure - Recruited 5 new senior management members- Created values-based performance review and compensation structures - Supported executive leadership capacity buildingDeveloped structures for strategic planning and performance management:- Established 5-year strategic planning and quarterly review process- Created monthly Goals and Key results framework - Laid groundwork for new-unit growth strategyEstablished scalable, nimble information & communication systems- IT infrastructure roadmapping and implementation across finance, HR, and POS- Created company-wide data storage and communication protocols Guided COVID response strategy- PR and public comms, HR, cash and liquidity preservation, vendor management- Concept-by-concept pivot from in-restaurant to to-go offerings

Five Suns Foods is building a regenerative supply chain to bring Chocho, the world's highest source of plant-based protein, to the global market. Chocho is an Andean legume with rich indigenous and land-based history. In my role as CFO & COO, I was responsible for executing our $3M+ seed stage financing and creating a value-added, high-barrier to entry supply chain.Our strategy touched the entire value chain - from crop rotation strategies, to IP-protected processing, to branded consumer products - to ensure a protected, regenerative model for scale.

I worked alongside the founding teams of Prather Ranch and Prather Ranch Meat Company to pursue a $60M management buyout and growth capital raise. Prather Ranch is a vertically integrated all-natural pasture-raised beef cattle enterprise with significant agriculture land assets and over 140 years of Northern California legacy. Prather's beef is among the most delicious and nutritious available and its practices are widely recognized by the conservation and ranching communities for thought leadership and operating excellence in resource management and animal husbandry.

theBOX is a values-based food business established committed to bringing inspired, healthful, and simply delicious food to Hanover and the entire Upper Valley; celebrating and supporting regional agriculture; and providing hands-on experiential learning opportunities to local students and residents.

TA Associates is a global growth private equity firm with $10BN under management.I sourced investment opportunities and led the financial, legal, business due diligence to invest in restaurant, healthcare, and branded consumer packaged foods businesses.

Executed multiple private and publicly traded debt and equity capital transactions totaling over $3BN for Fortune 500 companies in the logistics and transportation sectors.