ABOUT ME
Curiosity and a love of learning has always been my life’s compass. After moving to NYC from Texas and launching a career in fashion design, I spent a year in Paris studying art history and language, deepening my understanding of how culture, technology, and the objects we create become our connection to the world around us. In 2009, as a mother of two baby girls, I founded a start-up to explore how design can have positive impact on people and planet while driving profit. This path led me to complete an MBA focused on global sustainability in 2019, where I turned to technology to scale impact, consulting across industries.
Over time, my love of designing products evolved to include business design. Desiring to scale positive change and innovation in business, I began tech consulting for the Fortune 500. I designed digital workplaces that leveraged the power of collective innovation to drive adoption, engagement, and organizational change.
Professionally, I have worked across global brands, institutions, startups, and creative communities — bridging strategy, design, storytelling, and sales. Whether leading co-creation futurist workshops, shaping go-to-market strategies, or designing digital and organizational systems, my focus is on helping people and teams build with intention, trust, and shared vision.
My current research explores nature-based design and indigenous intelligence, as part of a global Living Systems cohort with the Lo-TEK Institute. Listening to ecosystems invites a shift from traditional design systems that are often controlling and rigid, into designing in relationship where living systems become the authority for resilience, reciprocity, and adaptation
Supporting the systems work, I am devoted to inner development as a first step to systems change. Through expression and movement — including embodying “Mother Earth” as a living, interactive presence — I explore how our connection, empathy, and imagination can help awaken us to new ways of seeing and being. I believe that meaningful transformation happens when our inner awareness shapes our agency in emerging larger external systems.
At home, I am a wife and mother of two teenage daughters. Our family life flows between supporting the creative arts in NYC to restoring a farmhouse upstate — where I garden, hike, and enjoy making things with my hands. Every week I spend time volunteering with the Street Homeless Advocacy Project (SHAP), with my mini goldendoodle Billie by my side, supporting members of the housing-insecure community by building trust and connecting them to safe, supportive resources.
Whether designing, building businesses, or creating creative spaces for connection, my guide is the belief that meaningful futures emerge through relationship to nature, to each other, and to the desirable futures we dare to imagine.
DESIGN & IMAGINATION
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ”
As AI and emerging technologies accelerate access to data and insight, our greatest opportunity is to deepen our creative capacity and ability to listen and learn from our emerging future.
TRANSFORMATION & INNER DEVELOPMENT
“True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Transformation is both an inner and outer process. It asks us to honor what has meaning, while creating space for what is ready to emerge — in ourselves, our work, and the systems we shape.
ADAPTATION & LIVING SYSTEMS
“The real barrier to change is not lack of vision or ideas, but the inability to let go .”
Nature shows us that resilience is foundational to evolution, emerging through adaptation and interdependence. True leadership, then, is not individual — it is the collective capacity to sense, respond, and evolve together. As our world changes, we are invited to let go of our individual limits and design systems rooted in relationship, reciprocity, and shared awareness.
