I’m usually so focused on the teams I’m working with that you can count on me forgetting to introduce myself when we first meet. So let me be proper this time and share my story with you
- even if we’ve already met.
I thrive the most when I’m met with complex issues other people would rather avoid. I’m extremely passionate about my work, and just as impatient to make an impact as my clients are.
I loved the culture at my first workplace because it gave me freedom and responsibility at the same time. Later on, I realized just how lucky I’d been to get my first work experience at a place like this because it’s far from the average.
Organizations seek innovation, ownership, inner drive and a go-getter attitude in their employees. But many of them still operate in structures that stifle those very qualities.
That’s what led me (and many ambitious people around me) to start working for myself.
As a freelance soft skill trainer, I encountered many ideas about better ways to work and lead, ones that set new standards for what we call business as usual. The future we could create by implementing them got me extremely excited.
How I got here
I’ve always loved to travel, so much so that for a while I thought I wanted to be a digital nomad. Then I realized what I enjoy about it so much: getting to know different cultures. Understanding how people with very different backgrounds think and see the world.
I immerse myself into every new organizational culture with the same curiosity, and navigating the differences between people became my passion.
I originally studied to become a lawyer, and you could say that I changed professions, but the things law school has taught me are an integral part of the work I do today. Systems thinking, negotiations, and advocating for the interests of people are only a few of the approaches I can connect to my legal background.
I love to experiment and try new things, but I’m also dedicated to working with evidence-based methods, and those can be hard to come by in ‘soft’ areas like culture. This was my motivation for becoming a certified Radical Collaboration trainer, a framework that’s proven to build organizations that are both high-performing and human-centered.
Every program I design is a unique blend of the methodologies I’ve studied: Radical Collaboration, internal communications, coaching, facilitation, strengths-based approaches, design thinking and more. The result is always something custom-built for specific context and needs.
My mind lives in the future, which is terrible when I want to meditate, but super useful in my work. I usually get called when young, innovative, fast-growing companies reach a transition phase where what used to work doesn’t work so well anymore, they encounter growing pains, or simply want to take control of the story they are writing.
What they appreciate the most about our work together is my ability to get results fast and come up with creative solutions that kill multiple birds with one stone, that I work in a refreshingly friendly manner, and put into practice the abstract concepts others only talk about.
let’s work together
