COACHING
CREATE WHAT'S NEXT
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your
one wild and
precious life?"
The Question Behind My Work
I've spent much of my life fascinated by a question that most of us rarely stop to ask:
How do people decide what kind of life to live?
Not what career to pursue. Not where to live. Not which goals to chase.
I mean the deeper question beneath all of those choices.
How do we decide what matters?
How do we determine what success means?
How do we distinguish between what we truly want and what we've simply been taught to want?
These questions have followed me throughout my career as an educator, mentor, global professional, and coach.
They continue to shape my work today.
What I've Learned
For more than twenty years, I've worked with people navigating growth, transition, and change.
I've walked alongside students deciding who they want to become, professionals considering a career change, leaders navigating uncertainty, and individuals standing at important crossroads in their lives.
Across all of these experiences, I've noticed a common thread: people often underestimate their own power. We carry a remarkable capacity to make choices, create meaning, and influence the course of our lives, yet we frequently forget that the pen is in our hands.
My work is rooted in helping people reconnect with that authorship, not by rewriting who they are, but by recognizing the possibilities that have been available to them all along.
A Global Perspective
My work in global engagement and international education has profoundly shaped how I understand personal growth and change.
Working across cultures and leading cultural immersion programs has given me the opportunity to see how differently human beings organize their lives, define success, build community, and make meaning.
What one culture values deeply, another may question. What feels necessary in one context may be largely irrelevant in another.
Those experiences reinforced something I now consider foundational:
Many of the assumptions we hold most strongly are not universal truths. They are inherited perspectives.
Once we recognize that, we become free to adopt new ways of thinking.
We begin asking different questions.
We gain permission to define success more personally.
And we begin to see that there are many ways to live a meaningful life.
A Few Things About Me
Alongside my coaching practice, I lead global engagement initiatives in higher education, building international partnerships that support collaboration, transnational research, and cultural exchange. Prior to 2024, I held faculty appointments teaching language and literature courses and leading study abroad programs designed to foster cross-cultural learning and intercultural competence.
I hold an M.A. in Hispanic Literature and Applied Linguistics, a B.A. in Spanish Studies, and a B.F.A. in Studio Art. I'm also a graduate of the Wayfinder Life Coaching Program.
Outside of work, I'm endlessly curious about people, cultures, ideas, creativity, and the ways we make meaning in our lives.
I believe humans are meant to evolve.
I believe coaching can be life-changing.
And I believe that the most important transformations begin not with finding better answers, but with asking better questions.
Wayfarer,
there is no path,
the path is made by walking.
Antonio Machado