My Mission
My mission is twofold: (1) to help leaders understand the emotional, systemic, and relational factors that determine their own success as well as the success of the organizations they lead; and (2) to create systemic organizational change by helping influencers understand the power of empathic and relational leadership.
I accomplish this mission through providing executive coaching and designing and delivering leadership development programs, seminars, and workshops. My clients represent diverse business sectors, but I’m passionate about advancing women in leadership and supporting healthcare leaders to build high-performing and engaged teams.
About Me
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Prior to becoming an executive coach and leadership consultant, I had a fourteen-year career in higher education as a professor and university administrator. In my role as a college dean, I led the initiative to launch seven new online graduate programs, growing graduate student enrollment by 70% and contributing to a revenue increase of $8.8 million over two years. Other leadership accomplishments included building a new academic leadership team; developing virtual on-boarding and orientation courses for a rapidly expanding distributed faculty; and successfully leading seven substantive changes and two site visits with regional accreditors.
I currently serve as the Director of Leadership Development for CHRISTUS Health, a nonprofit healthcare system with over 45,000 employees and 600 acute care hospitals and ambulatory clinics across the US and Latin America. I lead award-winning leadership development programs for emerging, first-time, mid-level, and executive leaders. Our new leader onboarding program has been statistically proven to make a significant positive difference in employee engagement and leader retention. Additionally, the executive development program I lead has demonstrated an ROI of over 500%, based on promotions and retention of senior leaders.
In my executive coaching practice, I leverage my leadership experience and advanced education in executive coaching, systems theory, and relationship dynamics to help leaders and organizations succeed. I have worked with leaders and teams from organizations such as the Duke University School of Nursing, the University of South Carolina College of Nursing, The Indiana University School of Public Health, Abilene Christian University, Pizza Hut, UT Southwestern Medical School, Chick-fil-A, CitiBank, Baylor Scott & White, Mi Escuelita, and others. I also provide internal coaching in my role at CHRISTUS Health.
I have a Ph.D. in Couple and Family Therapy from Michigan State University and a Certificate in Executive Coaching from Southern Methodist University.
Overview of Services
Executive coaching
I provide executive coaching for individual clients or as an external coach hired by organizations to work with their leaders. Click below to learn more about my coaching philosophy, types of executive coaching, or my coaching process.
Leadership Development
I am available to provide leadership development workshops for the leaders in your company, organization, or faith community.
Organizational consulting
Whether you are in need of an assessment of organizational culture, leadership team retreat facilitation, or succession planning, I can help your organization achieve its goals.
AWARE women's leadership
The purpose of this program is to Advance Women to be Authentic, Resilient, and Empathic (AWARE) leaders. I offer both public and corporate versions of this program. Participants receive valuable education, peer support, and accountability on their journey to AWARE leadership.
I am a qualified Lumina learning practitioner.
Built on the Jungian archetypes as well as Big 5 personality theory, Lumina Learning takes a humanistic approach to personal and leadership development. I'm available to work with individual leaders or leadership teams to leverage their personality aspects and behavioral qualities more effectively.