In the corporate world, I’ve written and delivered training and technical material across industries, from software and publishing to travel and energy. In the nonprofit world, I’ve developed and implemented public relations, education, outreach, and marketing programs for organizations operating locally and internationally. Writing, documenting, filming, planning, managing projects, diffusing tensions, organizing people, things, and ideas, working to uplift women and the often-overlooked, and more, fill my “what do you do?” list.
I’ve spent a good bit of time in India, crisscrossed the United States too many times to count, and traveled not enough in Europe and Australia, with continents, countries, and people yet to visit. Never fitting into niches very well, I’ve worked in and investigated many domains, learning both too much and too little. I’ve always thought the greatest attainments are internal, yet it took me years to get over thinking the external must comply. As a teen, I was an intellectually-oriented pro athlete who withdrew from competition because I wasn’t interested in participating in a hyper-competitive culture where beating people and external development was paramount; I then left an IQ-based organization because the focus on intellect lacked wholeness and heart. Alternative and Eastern healing methodologies and spirituality emerged in this life early on, and good fortune has graced me with the embodiment of compassion in the form of a saint and humanitarian who has been the primary presence in my life for 20 years.
I believe success and happiness are found not in acquiring status, stuff, and praise, but in non-tangibles, including living and working with awareness, gratitude, compassion, respect, and an attitude of service towards all. Blending these with good communication, effective planning, appropriate training, and that which the synergy provides is what I strive to do for clients.
Don’t let us breathe once without being where you are.
~ Rumi
