What does it mean to flourish…

• Finding and nourishing a strong sense of purpose

• Identifying your core values and living them in your day-to-day life

• Understanding how you’re wired and unlocking your innate resilience

• Learning how to shift your relationship to stressors and living more in your optimal zone

• Developing ways to practice and embody self-kindness

• Increasing your sense of belonging through practices that enhance your self-awareness

Focus more on what matters, expand your self-awareness, and improve your overall emotional balance through human-inspired programs and practices to help you flourish in the workplace and at home.

WHY HUMAN-INSPIRED PROGRAMS?

More than ever, we seek meaning in life and work. We crave alignment between our work and selves and the ability to make valuable contributions. This is today’s human experience.

The savviest organizations realize that, in today’s increasingly uncertain and complex world, their people are their most important asset. Understanding core human needs and making the human experience central is essential. Why?

Putting people at the center engages, empowers, and fulfills them. It encourages employees to grow into their best selves, enhances relationships and communication, and boosts performance. It creates an environment that encourages the sharing of ideas, the pursuit of curiosity, and the willingness to take initiative.

For many organizations, though, becoming human-inspired requires an enormous shift. That’s because workplaces have been traditionally hierarchical and rules- and process-driven.

Today's talent, though, values meaning, purpose, and a warmer work environment. Failure to develop human-centricity threatens an organization’s ability to attract and retain the best people.

Many organizations don’t know where to start the shift. That’s where I come in. Through workplace programs, group and individual coaching, I help people embrace personal-professional growth, foster inclusiveness, and promote mindfulness.

With my help, organizations and their people can create more engagement, encourage greater curiosity and collaboration, reduce employee stress, and boost performance. Making the shift to a human-inspired workplace gives employees what they need to reach their fullest potential—and to contribute to lasting organizational success.

SIX CORE HUMAN NEEDS​

Six core needs of all people, regardless of gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, are:

Security (Psychological Safety)
Health, safety, familiarity, and competence

Status (Appreciation)
Recognition of our contributions

Achievement
Striving for excellence, taking pride in accomplishments

Autonomy
Freedom in actions and decisions

Purpose
Make a meaningful difference

Belonging
Meaningful connections to others

Source: Human Dynamics + Work Team at Herman Miller

HUMAN-INSPIRED WORKPLACES​

Through environment, policies, and employee skill development, human-inspired work environments make employee well-being a top priority. These organizations have more flexibility and feel more personalized. By reducing stress and increasing engagement, these organizations boost performance.

They create or support:

• A culture of curiosity
• Individual and group initiative
• Healthy, continuous feedback
• Sharing of ideas
• Risk-taking without fear of punishment
• Peer-to-peer support
• Time to process, integrate new information
• Emotional, physical and mental well-being

Engage, empower and fulfill employees

HUMAN-INSPIRED PROGRAMS FOR THE WORKPLACE

Facilitation, teaching, training, and coaching for the workplace
I help organizations assess and improve the employee experience to create more human-inspired work environments. My programs are grounded in mindfulness and inclusiveness. All programming is trauma-informed and is grounded on the guiding principles of psychological safety, trust and transparency, feedback, communication, collaboration, and empowerment. Below are a few samples of programming I have delivered. Contact me for a free consultation to assess your needs and see if my experience, interest, and skillset can add value to the work you do.

Some of the organizations I have partnered with over the years…

Connect with what and who you want to be

HUMAN-INSPIRED COACHING FOR INDIVIDUALS & GROUPS

Coaching and mindfulness practices for individuals and groups
Coaching expands our self-awareness, transforms relationships and provides us with a clearer sense of who we are and what we want in life. Contact me to learn more about creating a culture of coaching within your organization.

Executive Coaching

• For executive coaching I like to shadow the executive in different work scenarios and then follow-up for one-on-one coaching and consultation.

All coaching is:

• Trauma-informed, body-centered and based on brain science
• Grounded in secular mindfulness practice
• Offered in person, phone, Skype or Zoom sessions for organizational coaching contracts

Consulting & Conversations

• Are you interested in the idea of human-inspired programming in your workplace but you don’t know where to start?
• Would you like a high impact, low commitment conversation to stimulate some new ideas? If so, I would love to talk with you. I thoroughly enjoy meeting new people and sharing ideas and inspiration.
• Let’s connect and see what is possible…

Life Takes Practice

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As a teacher, facilitator, coach, and consultant, I help individuals and organizations to explore the multi-faceted dimensions of being human.

Through programs created specifically for the human-inspired workplace, I help people find safe and supportive ways to connect with their humanity so that they can live with more purpose, empathy, and a greater sense of belonging. With intention, alignment and practice, they develop more personal skillfulness in life and work.

From day-to-day to open-ended

It has taken me years—and some wonderful, winding paths—to answer the question ‘how do I fully show up in life?’  That’s why I’m particularly compassionate and generous when it comes to helping others ask and answer their most essential existential questions, among more practical and everyday concerns about being human in our modern world.

A compassion, effective, and integrated approach

My specialty is helping people discover and realize their capacity, through an approach that integrates the limbic and nervous systems, mindset, adaptive challenges, resilience, and a mindfulness framework.

As someone who experienced significant health effects of work-related stress, I intimately understand how trauma and stress impair our ability to engage, focus, and show up in authentic ways. My personal journey inspires me to walk aside others in this work.

My training and certifications complement my work experiences. I’m a certified mindfulness teacher and I have been a student of meditation and contemplative practices for over 20 years, including relational and somatic mindfulness practices. I’ve facilitated mindfulness, yoga, and breathwork for individuals, in clinical settings, in prisons, and in workplaces.

In addition, I hold multiple coaching certifications and have completed training and certifications in a variety of healing modalities and curricula. While earning two degrees in environmental science, I focused on studying the intersection of the environment and human health allowing for a broader perspective in the work I do.

When I’m not coaching or teaching, I’m spending time with my husband and daughter, who have been instrumental in helping me discover the beauty of patience, humor, and acceptance. I write whenever I can and choose epic novels for family read-alouds. I particularly love to nourish my soul with travel, especially when it involves hiking, kayaking, long treks through urban landscapes, or really great food.

Let’s work together

When you’re ready to live, work, and connect with purpose, I’m ready to help you. Reach out to discuss which of my services is the right fit for you. Scroll down to schedule a free consultation.

Are you ready to get started? Do you have questions about my process? Would you like an opportunity to see if we are a good fit? If so, click the button below to schedule a free 15-minute consultation. I work with clients in different time zones and by phone, Skype or Zoom.