Who I work with...
Entrepreneurs and leaders seeking holistic success
You’ve built a great deal already. On the surface, your life may look successful—a growing business, leadership responsibility, meaningful work, and a full calendar—but something in you knows there is more.
You want success that feels true to who you are: rooted in your values, expressed through meaningful work, and sustainable for your mind, body, and relationships over time.
You might be:
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An entrepreneur who wants a values-based strategy rather than growth at any cost.
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A founder, executive, or leader in transition—stepping into a new role, launching something new, or redefining what comes next.
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A thoughtful creative or changemaker who wants work to reflect an inner compass, not just external expectations.
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Someone who looks successful on paper but feels the cost of misalignment, overextension, or quiet dissatisfaction. My work is for people who are thoughtful, committed, and ready to look honestly at what is working and what is not. Together, we create a way forward that connects leadership, business, values, and wellbeing in a more integrated way.
How I work
Executive and organizational coaching with a creative, systemic lens
I partner with leaders and entrepreneurs who are navigating growth, transition, or complexity and want support that honours both their humanity and their responsibilities.
My approach integrates:
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Executive and organizational coaching grounded in ICF-aligned training and ongoing graduate study.
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Systems thinking that recognizes your life, business, and leadership as interconnected.
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Art-based inquiry and visual tools that open new ways of seeing and understanding.
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Somatic and reflective practices that support nervous system regulation, clarity, and grounded action.
Together, we slow down enough to really see what is happening—inside and around you—and then design ways of working that are more aligned, intentional, and sustainable.
The role of art-based coaching
Art-based coaching is not about making “good art.” It’s about giving your thinking and feeling another language.
The Cairn Approach
The Cairn Approach serves as a powerful metaphor for building a solid foundation of success and well-being. Just as cairns, piles of stones used as markers or memorials, represent stability, guidance, and connection to the environment, this coaching methodology emphasizes the importance of alignment between personal and professional growth.
I use a five-part framework, the Cairn Approach, to help clients connect inner clarity with outer action. It brings together values clarification, reflective and art-based practice, developmental coaching, and systems thinking so that goals and strategy are grounded in who you are and how you want to live and lead.
1. Values and wellbeing
We begin by clarifying your values and defining what holistic success means for you. Through reflection and simple creative practices, we create the calm and honesty needed to identify what truly matters and what will serve as your inner compass.
2. Deep seeing and meaning-making
Next, we slow down to examine stories, patterns, assumptions, and visual metaphors that may be shaping your choices. Art-based reflection can support insight, self-expression, and new perspectives that are not always immediately available through analysis alone.
3. Visual strategy and mapping
From there, we turn insight into a clear strategic view of your life, leadership, or business. We map values, vision, time, energy, relationships, priorities, and opportunities so your goals are focused, realistic, and aligned.
4. Developmental practices and support
We then build practices, structures, and experiments that help you live the vision you have named. That may include boundaries, leadership behaviours, creative rituals, decision-making practices, and accountability that supports growth without pushing you toward burnout.
5. Systems and learning loops
Finally, we look at your life and work as living systems. By identifying reinforcing patterns and reviewing what is working over time, we create learning loops that help you stay aligned as circumstances evolve.
Curious how this would look for you?
Specialized methods in coaching
Art-based coaching is one of the ways I help clients access insight that conversation alone may not reach. Using simple visual exercises, metaphor, and mapping—no “art skills” required—we surface patterns, values, and possibilities that often sit just below the surface. This can be especially powerful in times of transition, reinvention, or when something needs to change but the way forward is not yet clear.
Executive and Organizational systems approach to leadership, transitions, teams, and success building. Drawing on my business background and academic studies, I design and develop programs that work for you and your organization.
Somatic coaching is a method that helps clients process emotions, relieve stress, and achieve personal goals by focusing on bodily sensations and the nervous system. Referred to as the mind-body connection.
Nature coaching blends traditional coaching with the grounding and restorative power of nature to help individuals achieve personal, professional, and well-being goals. This method is done outdoors and can involve anything from a walk to kayaking.