About Me

Workplace Communications, Culture and Change
Keynote Speaker & Strategist

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I’m a former corporate executive and founder of empower Up Consulting. I spent more than 20 years inside some of the world’s biggest brands across healthcare, retail, manufacturing and real estate. Now, I help organizations—and the people in them—unleash their full potential by exposing and closing the invisible forces that fuel disengagement and disconnection.

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As a keynote speaker and consultant, I love connecting with an audience, speaking truths that go unsaid, and challenging assumptions (with humor along the way).

I’m a first-gen American, proud Gen X-er, foodie, mediocre hip hop dance and former military brat who lives in the Chicago suburbs with my family and a black cat.

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