From Ogilvy to McCann, I led change with global leaders.

For 11 years, I facilitated innovation for brands like Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Merck, as well as partnered with C-Suite executives on organizational change and community building inside a 23,000-person global advertising agency. While the pursuit of growth personally and on behalf of others was thrilling and rewarding, it also began to “break my soul” (Beyoncé). I followed the dissonance into a period of learning, play and reckonings.

As AI brings about accelerated breakthroughs for healthcare and knowledge workers, wars rage and oceans acidify. What are reorienting tools for our urgent and uncertain times? While studying somatic practices, art and philosophy, I realize we can collectively build more capacity, discernment and a better knowing of our individual gifts. I want to help you find your own unique way for the sake of our collective flourishing.

In our work together, you'll feel appreciated for your complexities, accompanied in your inquiries and resourced in how you move through life. We'll till the soil with curiosity, collaborate with emergence and learn to be in service.

I am a Certified Integral Coach® by New Ventures West, trained in strategic foresight by the Institute for the Future and in regenerative business through Lift Economy’s Next Economy MBA program. I hold a B.A. in political science with general honors from the University of Chicago. I grew up in Hong Kong and lived in New York before making the San Francisco Bay Area home.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Many of my clients are going through identity shifts, experiencing inflection points or abrupt thresholds, including motherhood, job change, entrepreneurship, immigration and chronic illness. Some have made big pivots and need support in a new terrain without a map. (How come freedom feels like being lost?!) My clients have tended to be driven and high-performing people who have hit a glitch or feel the subsurface turbulence within them. They are tired of navigating things the way they had before and ready to try something different. They sense the shimmer of other possibilities and are game to experiment.

    • Struggling with confidence

    • Facing burn-out

    • Juggling multiple roles at work and at home

    • Considering to leave a job 

    • Feeling fear before a pivot

    • Exploring non-standard paths

    • Crafting a new identity

    • Prioritizing multiple projects in a portfolio career

    • Managing difficult relationships

    • Navigating being a woman, person of color or other identity-based challenges

    • Reconnecting with cultural heritage as part of diaspora

    • Returning to a creative practice

    • Planning a sabbatical

    • Relating with money and values

    • Shaping life after financial independence

  • I’m a poet, mover and artist who is piecing together a memory work project. I’m a student of qigong, classical Chinese wisdom, butoh and contact improv. I am an active member in writing collectives, visual arts classes and philosophy study groups. I volunteer in projects that play the dual role of making sanctuary for healing and “dojos” for practice, including as a fundraising committee member for The Center for ArtEsteem in Oakland, California, and as a founding board member for Dance Monks’s “La Milpa: Refugio de Arte” project in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

How does a coaching session feel like?

Hear from my former client Consuelo Cassarato, who is a licensed acupuncturist and former UN consultant, on the impact of having a deep mirror in coaching.

What is accompaniment like in a career transition?

Hear from my former client Rasa (Mark Dresser) who is an exited medical tech entrepreneur turned holistic health business owner and musician.

Let’s begin.

Tell me what you're showing up for, and we'll arrange a complimentary chemistry check.