Meet Your Coach
Though I'm a geologist by trade, I was born into a family with deep ties to teaching and ministry. My curiosity, confidence, and love of science, nature, and people were cultivated while working on a boat in Maine with my grandparents. The groundwork for my coaching future was there, even if it took me years to find it.
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I work as a geoscience development and operations manager, living in Colorado and working in Colorado and Wyoming. As a manager, my job is to bring the best out of the people I work with by developing groups of people into great teams.
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Transitioning to management was a bumpy road, and I quickly learned that I had more to learn about how to deliver on the business and get the best out of a team. Managing people led me to coaching and group and team systems coaching. These skills quickly helped me develop the strengths required to grow into an effective leader. My coaching and leadership skills translated within my company into opportunities to coach, develop, and deliver leadership training and mentoring roles across the company.
I have coached across a wide range of industries and experience levels. I've coached individual contributors and leaders in the Energy sector, technology companies, education, non-profits, and businesses large and small. I have also worked with entrepreneurs, students, and people in career transition. As a team systems coach, I work with teams to develop and support the underlying conditions that make teams incredible places to work. I have facilitated large and small group retreats, as well as groups up to 100+ people.
Education and Certifications
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
Co-Active Training Institue (CTI) - 2021
Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Accreditation through the International Coaching Federation. 2021
MS, Structural Geology / University of Alaska Fairbanks
BA, Geology / Hamilton College
Leadership Facilitation Coach - Impact Denver
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Leadership Foundation - 2021 & 2024
Led small group sessions facilitating leadership training for emerging leaders in Denver, CO.
Volunteer Young Prof. Board - Maria Droste Counceling
Served two years 2020-21 on the YP Board supporting the mission of providing sliding scale access to mental health care.
CRR Global ORSC Trained Systems Coach
Organizational and Relationships Systems Coaching trained 2023
Photograph by Alec Duncan
Slate - A Geologic Coaching Perspective
Slate is a metamorphic rock changed from ductile shale through years of heat and pressure into a fully recrystallized, more resilient rock.
After more than a decade working as a geologist primarily in shale plays, I certainly still feel the heat and pressure of business, operations, schedules, downturns, and persistent change.
Coaching provides me with perspective and tools to support growth and deep change in myself and others. I work with successful, driven people and connect meaning, perspective, and purpose to their biggest goals. I hold accountability with them to create actions aligned with their vision and values.
Our work together will help you develop new resources that will support you in successfully taking on new challenges, now and in the future.