On the reputable background front: I studied Systems Engineering at Cornell University, then started my career as a management consultant at Bain & Company. After that, I co-founded M.M.LaFleur, a direct-to-consumer fashion brand for professional women, where I spent five years as Chief Operating Officer, helping to grow the company to $75 million in revenue and over 200 employees. My fascination with the people side of the business led me to intensive coaching training in London with iDiscover 360, where I studied human development and practical emotional intelligence. I then merged my worlds to serve as the in-house executive coach at venture capital firm JAZZ Venture Partners, while also instructing and advising on entrepreneurship at top universities and accelerators.

While helping hundreds of people pursue their dreams and design aligned lives, I started to feel like a hypocrite for not quite doing the same myself. I began exploring things like food, hospitality, storytelling, and comedy. I worked in a restaurant, volunteered on a regenerative farm, designed matchmaking events, and took clown class.

These days, along with my advising work, I am focused on writing and producing theater, including a one-woman show that I wrote and performed at the Adelaide Fringe, the Edinburgh Fringe, and off-off-Broadway in New York City (1 in a Chameleon). I am also in the early stages of developing a romantic dramedy feature film.

I grew up in a family of introverted, seafood-loving scientists, traveling between Syracuse, NY and Bangkok, Thailand. I’m currently based in Brooklyn, NY, though I have yet to learn how to stay still.

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All that is how I’m currently telling the story, anyway.