I’ve been in your chair.
I spent years as Chief of Staff at Fortune 500 companies. I know the reorg, the calendar that owns you, the decision nobody else wants to make, and the particular loneliness of being the person everyone else leans on.
Then I was laid off. I sat in the crossroads everyone talks about like it’s a metaphor and found out it isn’t one — it’s a Tuesday, and you still have to make dinner.
What I found there is what I do now: get honest about what you value, then build something that runs on it. So I built two things.
The Arise Practice
Executive and leadership coaching for people who have spent a long time being the one who holds it together.
Arise Yoga Movement
A yoga studio in Kirkland. A real room, with real people in it, who know each other’s names.
They are the same work. One happens in conversation, one on the floor. Both are about returning to a practice, and to a person, instead of performing either. I don’t coach anyone toward a life I’ve only read about. I built the studio. It’s still standing. Come see it.
I’ve been coaching longer than I’ve been certified.
I spent years as Chief of Staff at Fortune 500 companies — in the room where the decisions got made, next to the executives making them. Coaching people through it was the job long before it was the title. The certifications came after, to name what I was already doing and to reach the parts of a person most coaches aren’t trained to touch.
Where the work started.
- Chief of Staff — Fortune 500
- M.B.A. — Information Technology
- B.S.B.A. — Human Resources Management
- Professional coach training — Co-Active Training Institute (CPCC)
- Certified Diversity Executive (IDC CDE)
- Certified Designing Your Life coach
- Positive Intelligence® practitioner and mental fitness coach
- Life Coach & Health Coach certified
Why the practice is whole.
- RYT-200 registered yoga teacher · Yin certified
- Breathwork certified
- Certified Personal Trainer · Corrective Exercise Specialist
- Strength & Conditioning · Senior Fitness
- Nutrition Coach
- Owner — Arise Yoga Movement, Kirkland, WA
Someone ready to look inward.
Open to being wrong about themselves. Willing to dig, and to sit in the part where it isn’t tidy yet.
I am not the right coach for someone who wants to be told what to do. I’ll ask instead. It’s slower, and it lasts.
A place to stop performing.
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