I used to be you.
Corner office. Packed calendar. Doing everything right.
Still questioning if I was enough.
THE STORY
For over 20 years, I sat in the rooms you're trying to get into, or trying to survive.
I was a Chief Mission and People Officer. I ran people and executive nonprofit leadership for organizations with real budgets, real boards, real politics. I know what it's like to walk into a room where you're the only one who looks like you, thinks like you, or has to translate yourself just to be understood.
Here's what nobody tells you when you're climbing: the higher you go, the more invisible the actual "you" gets.
I wasn't questioning my work anymore.
I was questioning my worth as a human being.
So I got out. Not to escape leadership, to finally do it honestly.
THE CREDENTIALS, FOR THE SKEPTICS
I'm not a coach who read a book about leadership. I was in the room making the decisions, managing the boards, sitting through the politics.
That's what I bring to the table with you.
You’ve worked too hard to feel this stuck.
20+ years in executive and HR leadership.
Former Chief Mission and People Officer at $150M+ nonprofit.
MSW.
Certified Professional Coach.
Adjunct instructor at UT Austin, teaching things like critical problem solving and decision making.
Yes, I teach this for a living. Yes, I still had to learn it the hard way first.
WHO I WORK WITH
I work primarily with female leaders who are accountable for everything and given authority for none of it.
And I specialize in something most coaches don't talk about: neurodivergent professionals.
I'm neurodivergent myself. Still figuring some of it out in real time. I built Flashlight Thinking around the way my brain actually works, not around a leadership model that was never built for brains like mine, or maybe like yours.
If you've spent your career masking, translating yourself, or wondering why the "just be more strategic" advice never quite lands, you're not broken. You've just never had a system built for you instead of around you.
HOW I WORK
No corporate speak. No polished program that skips the root work and hands you a script you don't know how to use.
I listen to what you say, and I tell you what I actually hear. I ask the questions you can't dodge. We get to the root of it, together, until you can name it, decide, and act.
This isn't about you feeling heard. It's about you remembering you already have the strength to decide.
