The common theme in everything I’ve done is empowering people and getting strong and sustained results:

Opening doors for victims of racial discrimination through my early advocacy work in housing civil rights.

Developing service, rehabilitation and advocacy programs and training staff and volunteers to help thousands of people affected by cancer.

Creating learning experiences to strengthen physician leaders’ skills so the teams they lead give the best patient care.

Training, lecturing and facilitating at regional, state and national workshops and conferences to teach others more effective ways of serving people in need.

I’m excited to bring my 30 years of experience to my work as a professional and personal life coach. Trained and certified by the Coaches Training Institute, I am also a member of the International Coaches Federation.

I received a BA in English Literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and a *Masters in Social Work, (MSW) in Social Planning & Community Organization from UC-Berkeley. Committed to continuous learning and self-development by attending human potential and self-development workshops, I also participate in active learning communities and a women’s circle I founded 24 years ago.

A very personal wake up call, being downsized in a wave of community hospital cutbacks in 1999, introduced me to the power of coaching. With the help of a career coach, I found a new path developing training programs to move physician leaders from being good to great and consulting with individual leaders on a number of work and life issues. Today, my coaching covers a wide range of clients, from health care executives and other professionals to students and retirees.

I believe that everyone comes into this life with passion and special gifts to share. Somewhere along the journey, these can get sidelined. Life presents us with many second chances to get back on track. Coaching offers a powerful partnership to liberate the inherent capacity each of us has to return to our best self.