You are the protagonist of your career. So what’s your professional story?

Maybe you feel like your meandering, disjointed, perhaps even random career has no through-line that ties it together and packages it neatly for employers. If that’s what you think, you’re absolutely wrong. You’re also in luck, though, because that’s exactly what I do for my clients. I craft the narrative.

My mission is to excavate your combined work and life experience to weave a compelling narrative that positions everything you have done as a logical progression leading you to this precise point, at this exact interview, to perform this job. And I’m really good at it.

Why am I qualified to do this? 

  • Workforce development: I am the cofounder of an online talent matching and workforce development platform connecting job seekers to employers in one of the most challenging employment markets in the world: East Africa. I developed the training and methodology we used to get candidates past the interview and into the job, making me both a battle-hardened entrepreneur and a career readiness specialist. Having started this business, I have also hired, fired, and managed staff, and I know what to look for in a candidate.

  • Professional interviewing and storytelling: Long before Gimlet and NPR figured out how to monetize podcasting, I was recruited to launch an interview podcast by a prominent Washington, DC think tank that had been following her political analysis and policy blog in 2005. That was the first time my strong writing earned me an income and a national platform to mold ideas into action. My interviewing and reporting attracted the attention of NBC's Washington bureau, which I later joined as political producer.

  • Political communications: I served in the press office of a U.S. Senator and observed first-hand how stories are generated, leaked, and disseminated at the highest levels of government.

  • Executive-level media expertise: I bring over a decade of experience from the newsrooms and boardrooms of NBC Universal and National Public Radio. As with most of the past decade of my work, I was in a position to review job applications and hire staff for high-stakes, visible roles.

  • Career education: I directed the career department and job placement at a women’s university, boasting an 85% job placement rate in a very volatile job market.

  • Strategic communications leadership: I served as the communications director of the same college, developing communications and marketing strategies to highly differentiated audiences, including international donors and funders, local media and partners, and underserved students. I honed my craft developing highly-targeted messages in a context where no two audiences were alike.

This unique intersection of political acumen, crisp communications talent, and workforce development expertise (and admittedly, a good old fashioned love of literature) is a powerful combination in a career coach.

Take a look at what my prior clients have said.