I have led from the inside, not from the sidelines.
Many coaches learn leadership from frameworks. I learned it by holding real responsibility across countries, cultures, and teams. I have worked with leaders when there is no script and no room to pretend everything is fine.
I took a sharp left turn — and stayed there on purpose.
After graduating from Columbia and landing a consulting role with Samsung, I walked away from the expected path. I moved to China with no job lined up, no Mandarin skills, and no safety net. That decision shaped everything about how I coach today.
I spent eight years immersed in cross-cultural leadership across China, Thailand, Korea, and Japan. I led team transformations, mediated power struggles, and watched strategies rise or fall on one cultural blind spot.
Returning to care for my father, I brought that experience into executive coaching and deepened it with training in neuroscience, trauma, and Internal Family Systems. I have worked with leaders at Meta, Apple, and high-growth startups navigating identity, pressure, and disconnection.
- How to build trust across cultures, even when you do not share a language.
- How to read a room when no one is saying what they actually mean.
- How to stay steady while the ground keeps shifting under you.
This is the basis of my coaching: no formulas, no clichés. Just insight earned from sitting inside the mess with leaders, not observing from the sidelines.
The moments leaders usually carry alone.
Every engagement is tailored, but these are the situations where I am most often brought in to help leaders turn transition into traction.
Executive Transitions
Step into new or expanded roles with a clear mandate and a way of leading that still feels like you.
Cross-Cultural Leadership
Turn difference into an advantage and lead global teams without defaulting to one “right” way.
High-stakes Conversations
Prepare for conversations where titles, egos, and cultures collide and something real needs to change.
Team Realignment
Move from friction and drift to honest dialogue, clear decisions, and forward motion.
Founder Dynamics
Surface tension early so it becomes a source of clarity instead of a quiet split that costs everyone.
Hogan / Harrison Assessments
Turn trait-based data into a shared language so patterns are visible and next moves are obvious.
Creative Reconnection Coaching
For those returning to parts of themselves they set aside.
I have coached leaders and teams in organizations ranging from early-stage startups to global enterprises.
The logos matter less than this: I know what it feels like to lead when the old rules stop working.
Not just more tools. A different kind of partner.
- Offer frameworks and models for you to try on your own.
- Focus mostly on performance tools and surface-level behavior change.
- Define clarity as having the perfect answer or strategy.
- Bring pattern recognition grounded in lived, cross-cultural leadership.
- Work with what is actually happening: identity, pressure, and the cost of success.
- Define clarity as integrity under pressure and a style of leading that fits who you are now.
Space to get real, and a way to move forward.
Honest space
A room where you can say “I do not know,” “I am tired,” or “I am off balance” without it becoming a liability.
Clarity in complexity
We work with the real constraints of your context instead of pretending things are simpler than they are.
Experienced partnership
A partner who has led in unfamiliar cultures, navigated ambiguity firsthand, and helped leaders move through their own moments of change.
Forward motion
Conversations that turn into specific moves, not insight that never leaves the room.
Case-by-case approach
Whether you are a first-time founder or a seasoned executive, our work is built around your moment, not your title.
Human first
We develop leadership capacity without losing sight of the human being carrying the role.
How I work with leaders.
With me you have space for honest conversation and forward movement. We name what is actually happening, cut through noise, and reconnect you with the way you lead when you are steady and clear.
No generic frameworks. Just real insight from someone who has led in unfamiliar cultures, navigated ambiguity firsthand, and supported others through their own moments of change. Growth happens at the edge of comfort, and you do not have to stand there alone.