I do the thing before I teach it.

I am the CEO of a Mid-Atlantic foundation and the programs and projects under it, including a girls' sports program and a capital project I am working to build. I have led the organization for twelve years. I am raising two teenagers, one in college and one in high school, and I walked my own family out of more than a hundred thousand dollars of debt by getting clear about what actually mattered.

Somewhere in the last few years, I rebuilt how I work. I run most of my executive week on AI now: the morning briefing that reads across my calendars and inbox before I open a tab, the knowledge base I can ask like a person, the board prep that finds the hole in my argument before the board does. It gave me back hours, and it changed what I think a small team can carry.

So this is the work I do alongside my own name. I help leaders and teams put AI to work, whether they want to be taught it, guided through it, or handed the finished thing. I advise other nonprofit leaders on the hard parts of running the organization, and I facilitate the rooms where those decisions get made, as someone who has actually held the chair. I coach a small number of people one to one, on the work and on the money. I speak on the same subjects.

I keep my practice small on purpose. I work with a limited number of clients at a time, and every engagement is built around that person or organization. The reason to hire me for any of this is that I am still doing it myself.

How I coach

Most people come in with a problem that sounds like strategy. Often it turns out to be confidence. I start with what you want to work on and follow it to what is underneath. When a worry sounds general, I'll ask for a real example. When I see a pattern show up in the session, I'll say so.

I work from your strengths. We spend less time on fixing weaknesses and more on what you already do well, how to use more of it, and when a strength is getting overused. I won't answer the big questions for you, and I won't hand you homework you didn't ask for.

You leave each session with one or two small next steps that you chose, and the next session starts with what actually happened. When money is part of the picture, we talk about it, because whether your money is working for you is a real coaching question.