I assist leaders and teams in fostering collaborative, ethical work environments. With twenty years of coaching experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, I help leaders at multiple levels of organizations to clarify core values, communicate, reach tough decisions and manage change more confidently.

I teach graduate-level psychology courses including psychological research methods and phenomenological and hermeneutic psychology, and serve on dissertation committees. My areas of research interest include organizational and leadership psychology, consciousness studies, and intercultural psychology. I'm a published researcher and writer on qualitative research methods.

The peer-reviewed Journal of Phenomenological Psychology publishes articles that advance the discipline of psychology from the perspective of the Continental phenomenology movement. Within that tradition, phenomenology is understood in the broadest possible sense including its transcendental, existential, hermeneutic, and narrative strands and is not meant to convey the thought of any one individual. Articles advance the discipline of psychology by applying phenomenology to enhance the field’s philosophical foundations, critical reflection, theoretical development, research methodologies, empirical research, and applications in such areas as clinical, educational, and organizational psychology. Over its four decades, the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology has consistently demonstrated the relevance of phenomenology for psychology in areas involving qualitative research methods, the entire range of psychological subject matters, and theoretical approaches such as the psychoanalytic, cognitive, biological, behavioral, humanistic, and psychometric. The overall aim is to further the psychological understanding of the human person in relation to self, world, others, and time. Because the potential of Continental phenomenology for enhancing psychology is vast and the field is still developing, innovative and creative applications or phenomenological approaches to psychological problems are especially welcome.

In Spring 2012 I founded PhenomenologyBlog with colleagues in Europe and the US to link human science researchers, innovators in psychotherapy, educators and philosophers

The Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JHP) is an interdisciplinary forum for contributions, controversies and diverse statements pertaining to humanistic psychology. It addresses personal growth, interpersonal encounters, social problems and philosophical issues. An international journal of human potential, self-actualization, the search for meaning and social change, JHP was founded by Abraham Maslow and Anthony Sutich in 1961.

3Back provides expertise to transform the fundamentals of Scrum Theory into practical implementation, known as Modern Scrum. Drawing upon my years of executive coaching, assessment, and team-building experience, I work with clients' real world experiences to provide hands-on learning aimed at improving team alignment and agility.

I work with business founders and managers to guide their firms through difficult transitions, promote effective teamwork, and minimize fire-fighting. I provide analyses and focused interventions to help businesses achieve clarity about decision-making, roles, and objectives. I have worked in the biotech, transportation and logistics, healthcare, and design in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.