My approach

My background spans talent management, employee relations, and people operations across healthcare, higher education, pharmaceuticals, technology, utilities, and nonprofit organizations. My work centers on the people challenges that affect performance, culture and business with an approach that is practical and personal. Listen first. Understand what is really happening. Then, together, we figure out what needs to change and support people in making it happen.

Not every people problem has the same answer. Sometimes it's a leadership issue. Sometimes the process needs to change. Sometimes someone needs coaching. And sometimes a difficult conversation simply needs to happen.

How I got here

I started as a commercial lender at JPMorgan Chase, financing real estate, start-ups and working capital for non-profits, women- and minority-owned businesses. Again and again, I saw the same thing: the business plan mattered, but people decided whether it worked and made it happen. That pulled me into HR.

Since then, I’ve led organizational development, training, inclusion and belonging initiatives, and core HR processes. I served as Sacred Heart University's first Chief Diversity Officer and Executive Director of Human Resources, and I've worked as a fractional HR partner and an independent workplace investigator. I bring a lender’s eye for the numbers and a master’s in industrial and organizational psychology for the people side. 

Credentials 

Off the clock, you’ll find me on the golf course, the ski slopes, or scuba diving.