A UX leader, teacher, and certified leadership coach with ~25 years of consulting, in-house design, and team leadership experience. I've driven the experience of strategy and design for startups, agencies, mid-sized and Big 5 organizations. As a UX team leader for over 20 years, I’ve been coaching and training individuals and teams for many years.
I'm also an experienced facilitator, moderator, panelist, and speaker, and the founder & host of the UX Cake podcast. Launched in 2018, UX Cake focuses on topics that help UX pros become more effective in their work and careers.
My passion is developing people & teams
My transition to leadership coaching and development has been a natural progression of the work I've done as a leader with a focus on building resilient teams and developing highly effective individuals who have become amazing leaders themselves. I've been coaching individuals and teams for many years, it's long been one of my strengths as a leader.
After realizing that my passion was more about people and their outcomes, vs. their output, I knew I needed to pursue leadership coaching as a career, starting with getting certified as a leadership and life coach, and more recently transitioning to running my business full-time. This has been a transformational journey for me, and I'm constantly spurred on by the often profound changes I witness in my clients.
