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I’m a human-centered systems thinker, somatic movement practitioner, dancer, design strategist and design thinking facilitator. The work that I do revolves around intentionally creating experiences where people can connect to themselves and each other, so they can unlock creativity and do hard things.
After more than a decade of leading product teams to design complex experiences that make work better for over a million employees, I learned that the best creative work happens when people are able to actually be in their bodies. Teams that feel safe and connected are the highest performing. Organizational cultures that intentionally make choices for equity and inclusion create better business outcomes. Dance classes that welcome all bodies create more meaningful art. When people feel connected to their bodies and themselves, they are able to make meaningful connections to others and do better work.
After years of trying to separate my 'dancer self' from my 'corporate self' - I figured out that trying to keep those parts separate was not serving me, and trying to distance myself from being a body that moved was keeping me stuck personally and professionally. My own experience of burnout led me back to my training as a mover - and I learned that the way I was working had disconnected me from my body. Being embodied has made me a better problem solver, a more creative thinker, and, more importantly, has dramatically impacted my health.
For much of my career, my work has been in tech, but it’s always been about the intersection of technology and human interaction. My role has always been to understand how technology can create better human to human interactions. What can technology take out of the way, so people can go back to being people? How might we build workplaces where humans feel like humans, so they can solve big hairy problems and do the work that energizes them?
Today, I work with leaders who feel overwhelmed, stressed, anxious, stuck and burned out find their way back to themselves, so they can take back their lives. I work with organizations that have big, complex problems to solve, and want to deliver their products or services without burning out their teams in the process. The work I do incorporates the science of somatics, the principles of human-centered design, and my own experience as creative leader who was completely burned out by the corporate system and found my way back to myself through movement.