I have led from the inside, not from the sidelines.
Here is what 25 years of working with leaders in high-stakes environments has taught me: Most leadership problems aren't caused by a lack of knowledge, strategy, or intent. They're caused by patterns: behavioral signatures that developed for good reasons, in earlier contexts, that are now getting in the way. The executive who became successful by being the smartest person in the room is now leading a team that won't push back. The founding partner whose decisiveness built the fund is now the reason the other partners go quiet in meetings. The global leader whose results speak for themselves has no idea why the people around her don't trust her yet. These aren't mystery problems. They're patterns that are visible, if you know where to look, and if you're willing to look directly. That's the work I do.
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 (Facebook), Apple, and Sequoia Capital, and with investment partnerships navigating how they make decisions together.
- 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.
Two forms. Three offerings.
My practice draws on Hogan 360 assessment, Harrison Assessments and Paradox Theory, and a facilitation approach grounded in process integrity: the belief that structure can do the confronting that a facilitator shouldn't have to do. I work with investment partnerships, senior executives, and global leaders navigating complexity that doesn't fit inside a standard playbook. I've worked across the U.S., Asia, and Europe, coaching executives, facilitating leadership teams, and designing and delivering programs that address communication, leadership, and decision-making under pressure.
Executive Coaching
For senior leaders in high-stakes, analytically rigorous environments. Transitions, decision-making under pressure, communication, and conflict.
Learn More →Investment Team Alignment
For VC, PE, and hedge fund partnerships of 3–10 people. Hogan 360 assessment, half-day facilitation, and quarterly engagement. Data-driven, not opinion-based.
Learn More →Cross-Cultural Leadership
For global leaders and multicultural teams navigating trust, decision-making, and conflict across cultures.
Learn More →I have coached leaders and teams in organizations ranging from early-stage startups to global enterprises.
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: behavioral patterns, decision-making dynamics, and the cost of sustained high performance.
- Define clarity as sharper decisions, cleaner communication, and patterns that no longer get in the way.
Space to get real, and a way to move forward.
Honest space
A working environment where what's actually happening in the room gets named, not managed around.
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 worked inside financial services, trading environments, and investment-adjacent organizations, with direct experience of how decisions actually get made under pressure.
Forward motion
Conversations that turn into specific moves, not insight that never leaves the room.
Case-by-case approach
Engagements are built around your specific situation, not a standard program.
How I work with leaders.
We name what is actually happening, cut through noise, and identify the specific moves that change the pattern.