I build rooms
where women
can think out loud.
I build rooms where women can think out loud: and leave knowing what they want to do.
Coach. AI Literacy Guide. Convener. Based in Squamish, British Columbia.
Vivian
and Lovine.
There is a photograph of two sisters.
Vivian and Lovine were writers and correspondents, keepers of a hundred years of family images and decades of handwritten letters. The photographs chronicle Canadian women from the 1920s onward. The letters are unmistakable in their cursive. Together, they are a love story and a record: of what women carry, what they build, and what they leave behind.
Lovine was my aunt. Vivian was my mother. She passed on International Women's Day, 2024. Since that moment I have been listening to women share their stories every single day.
What I
learned from
the floor.
I came to this work the long way around, by living the version of leadership I now help clients leave behind.
For over twenty years, I worked inside one of the world's largest financial institutions, managing corporate partnerships across North America. Not from a strategy office. From the floor. That vantage point showed me the gap between what a leader believed was happening and what their people were living through, visible to everyone except the person running it. Talented people went quiet: women especially, fitting themselves into a shape that was never designed with them in mind.
I also saw something else. When women found each other, on phone calls, after meetings, something opened up. Voices that had been careful became honest. Ideas held privately became shared. The room got smarter, and warmer, and more alive.
The women
who saw me
first.
Growing up, I didn't have a mentor. What shaped me most were the women who saw me before I could see myself.
My aunt Lovine was confident, feisty, and self-assured. She once said, matter-of-factly: "You'll be a great businesswoman. You'll look good in a suit." It wasn't a compliment about clothes. It was a statement about rooms I hadn't walked into yet, spoken by someone who could already picture me there.
Lenore hired me into banking when my resume said retail. She extended belief before it had been conventionally earned.
What I left
to build.
I left the bank to build something I had been building for years: a space where women could think clearly, without performing certainty they didn't yet feel, and without being told who to become.
A coaching certification from UBC, a creative writing certificate from the University of Toronto, and twenty years of organizational intelligence all point in the same direction — toward women who are most alive in honest conversation, who have something real to say and are still finding the confidence to say it without first softening every edge.
The room I
am building.
On November 10, 2024, a group of women gathered for the first Tea Salon. The afternoon was about courage. Tea was sipped and spilled. Things got raucous.
That is the room I am building: a place to slow down, speak honestly, and not have to translate yourself to be understood. Every voice has something to offer. The most important thing in the room is what happens between the people in it.
If something here feels familiar, you are in the right place.
If we work together, you'll get the same person on the call as the one writing this paragraph.
Let's talk →The conversation,
already in motion.
Tea Salons, small-group gatherings, and a thread that runs through it all: women thinking together, out loud.
Come to the table →