Curious Rebel. Leadership Development Designer. Cultural Intelligence Practitioner. TEDx speaker. For 15+ years I’ve partnered with Fortune 500 companies and global organizations to design and deliver leadership programs that teach leadership and disrupt it. In the best possible way.
The world organizations are operating in right now is complex, messy, and interconnected in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Old paradigms are dying. And the folx tasked with leading through all of this are being handed tools built for a world that no longer exists. That gap shows up everywhere.. and it’s costly.
When a digital transformation isn’t taking hold. When high-potential leaders plateau. The problem usually isn’t a skills gap – it’s a systems challenge wearing a skills gap costume. People navigating competing loyalties, unspoken assumptions, and real or perceived losses inside interconnected systems. The messy human stuff most programs are designed to skip.
I don’t skip it. I design for it. Warmly, curiously, fiercely and without apology.
My approach combines adaptive leadership, systems thinking, and cultural intelligence to help leaders build capacity for taking action in complexity. My aim is mile-deep change.
My perspective is one you won’t find in most rooms – forty+ years across cultures, and a life of complexity: refugee, immigrant, Iranian, USian, Spanish, Muslim and Jewish. That lens informs everything I do.
