curiosity has guided every step of my path. I’ve worked in science and technology communication, strategic corporate identity consulting, marketing research, purpose-driven leadership, behaviour change, coaching, and resilience training.”
My husband Larry and I found our happy place living on the beach in Singer Island, Florida early in Covid. This move has had a profound positive impact on my life and purpose. We still love spending our summers in the New York area, where our children have settled for now, as I treasure my identity as a lifelong New Yorker.
I live my life in endless curiosity about why people behave the way they do, what shapes both the positive and negative energy that ripples, and how transformation unfolds across personal, relational, and systemic levels. I’m especially drawn to the spaces in between, the liminal moments where identity, belief, and possibility are in motion. I have a deep fascination with language, how it is formed, how it evolves, and how it influences the way we see ourselves, each other, our connections and relationships, and our natural world. In today’s uncertain and fear-driven landscape, where people, communities, societies, and ecosystems are all under strain, I have found that helping to build resilience across these layers offers me the opportunity to live with deep purpose and make a meaningful difference.
This curiosity has guided every step of my path. I’ve worked in science and technology communication, strategic corporate identity consulting, marketing research, purpose-driven leadership, behaviour change, coaching, and resilience training. After earning my MBA from the University of Chicago with a focus in strategy, I took a futurist role at AT&T, exploring how leaders were building technology that connected business and human behaviour for advantage. I then shifted into strategic identity consulting, where one of my most formative projects was helping Cargill reimagine the identity of its agricultural business. I spent many glorious times in farmers’ kitchens across rural America, listening to what mattered most to them. That experience opened a new doorway for me where nature, people, and systems could no longer be seen as separate.
I enjoyed a long break in my professional career to be home with my children and to dedicate myself to local service. I have held many positions in my community, including a long tenure as president of our local Jewish Community Center. My focus in each role has been on helping organizations deliver on their purpose and strengthen their impact.
Lifelong learning is one of my deepest passions. My shift back to the professional world began with a master’s degree from Harvard, where I focused on the impact of religion and social justice on society and culture. On the last day of our final capstone, my mentor and favourite professor charged our small cohort to go out and make a positive difference in the world. That moment was transformational. I found my footing in my longstanding passion for Mussar, the ancient Jewish spiritual and ethical practice of cultivating character and moral excellence. I quickly realized how deeply Mussar had influenced the science of positive psychology and also saw one important gap in how both were being taught and practiced. The focus had become too cantered on the individual. My purpose became clear: to shift attention back to the ripple effects of our energy and behaviour on others, and on the systems we live within.
That purpose led me to deepen my training in positive psychology, systems thinking, and energy-based coaching, always with a focus on helping people align who they are with how they show up. Then a powerful new chapter opened when I moved to the beach and witnessed ancient mama sea turtles nesting. I soon began volunteering at Loggerhead Marinelife Center, spending long hours with recovering sea turtles and sea life in the aquariums. I saw sentient behaviour shaped by nature and nurture and learning, intelligence, adaptation, emotion, and memory. Nature revealed itself as a teacher, offering patterns of resilience, relationship, and response.
That experience led me to create Resilience Gone Wild, an award-winning podcast and platform and growing movement that explores how nature’s quiet brilliance can help ourselves, our relationships, and our ecosystems to flourish. From parrotfish and grapevines to polar bears and microbes, each moment of inspiration draws from story, science, and metaphor to offer resilience strategies already alive in the natural world. I bring those lessons to life in growing formats, through internal podcasts, narrative tools, and frameworks that help align values, build trust, and strengthen systems.
My work centres around what I call the win-win-win mindset: doing what helps you thrive, supports others, and sustains the ecosystems we all depend on.
I’m honoured to be part of ASP, a community that understands the power of systems thinking, the wisdom of nature, and the resilience that grows when we choose alignment.
