I grew up just outside Albany NY and began working at a young age at my family’s Italian deli, Roma’s, arranging bread and eventually running the cash register until my love for competitive swimming claimed my free time and weekends. After a BA in Creative Writing & minor in Communications at Tufts University, I spent 20+ years in Marketing — basically by accident — after landing my first “real” job as a Marketing Assistant at Cranium (games, books, and toys), followed by a couple years at community-focused startups in Seattle. 

For 13 years after that, I worked across Marketing at Google — leading Product and Brand campaigns and eventually running Operations for social — in addition to developing wellbeing initiatives and workshops, and coaching internal clients as part of Google's Guru+ program on the side. 

Following a bit of a “why am I so unfulfilled while working at one of the best companies in the world” identity crisis in early 2018, I discovered that only I was in charge of my career and life, and after taking a good hard look at what really lit me up, I realized that after two decades of marketing to people, I really wanted to find a way to work more directly in service of people. 

That spring I completed my coaching certification (CPCC) from the Co-Active Training Institute, and have since been helping my clients make the impact they want to have on their lives, careers, and relationships. In November of 2020, I also completed certification as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) from the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

In July of 2023 I finally melted down the “golden handcuffs” and resigned from Google to focus on finding out what’s possible when I focused my full attention and energy on helping folks live and work authentically by expanding my coaching practice. 

I live in the Berkshires (MA) at The Filomena, a 19th century rectory that my husband  and I renovated and run as an occasional AirBnB, event space, and photoshoot destination. In my free time, I’m an active member of the Pacemakers Masters Swim Team, and the chair of the West Stockbridge Dog Park Committee.