I began my career in technology at Hewlett-Packard, where The HP Way was legendary.  It was a remarkable corporate culture rooted in values that resonated deeply for me:: trust and respect for individuals, teamwork, corporate business conducted with uncompromising integrity.   Yet my career stagnated.  My professional growth stalled.   Managerial and peer relationships staled. Safety, not satisfaction, became an overriding prerogative.  I didn’t know how to harness the power of opportunities afforded to me.

This period of professional stagnation came largely in lockstep with depression and struggles with personal relationships.

These challenges eventually led me on a path of healing and towards the study of attachment theory, which, over time, transformed my personal and professional trajectory. 

My journey led me to focus on three essential relationships in the workplace; the relationship to myself and my own worthiness, relationships with trusted peers, and the relationship with my direct manager.  Over time, I developed a faith in my abilities to stand before anyone in the company–executives, senior technologists, international sales teams–to ask for what I needed.  At Intel, in a very different corporate culture than HP, I established my own art and craft of program management, leading hundred-person teams through highly complex, multi-year product and technology explorations, consistently achieving corporate approvals for $Billion-plus investments.  I did this all with a deeper sense of satisfaction than I had ever known.  For the first time in my professional life, work actually worked for me.

My offer is to empower you to stand in your own worthiness, help you find and use your voice to ask for what you want, and support you in cultivating trusting relationships in support of your goals.   You will find managerial advancement opportunities if that is your chosen path.    Or, if your strivings lean towards individual contributorship, you will become a deeply trusted expert.  Whichever your direction, and regardless of your company’s culture, I will support you in building a work environment within and around you that works for you.