Lived Experience + World-class Training + Positivity
I see how you’re simultaneously juggling family, community and personal health.
Together, we'll solve problems, make smart choices, grow your confidence.
I'll help you find satisfaction, joy, pride, prosperity and peace.
Rely on an experience-based approach.
I see you. I get you.
Like most fabulous female founders, you’re crazy busy. You're juggling family, self-care, community care, and the never-ending needs of our businesses. You are career-loving Moms, wives, sisters, daughters, and friends.
Together, we work to set goals, create or refine business or growth plans, tackle thorny challenges from people to finances, confidence building, communications, growth strategies, exit planning, and much, much more.
Alongside business experience, I employ a versatile and robust toolkit of proven strategies from the Center for Executive Coaching and Everything DiSC® to help you overcome challenges, grow confidence, and accelerate growth.
I bring a never-ending well of positive energy and a passion for balance and success.
We'll tap your authentic feminine strength to help you lead with confidence.
Our relationship will be rooted in mutual respect and admiration.
Get actionable insights drawn from real-world experience.
We'll infuse every interaction with optimism — and turn obstacles into opportunities for growth.
Get candid feedback delivered with compassion to foster genuine personal and professional development.
Our coaching is centered on your goals and aspirations — every session to tailored to your needs.
I share your unwavering passion for success — it fuels our journey toward extraordinary achievements.
I'll be standing by your side with empathy and understanding, supporting you through every step of your journey.
Use an approach that is scientifically-valid, reliable and consistent.
Everything DiSC® is an incredibly powerful set of tools for interpersonal communication based on assessments of individuals' behavioral preferences and tendencies.
With Everything DiSC®, we strive to better understand, respect and appreciate our different communication styles. We also learn about our motivations and stressors, strengths and challenges.
We explore ways to more effectively communicate with other work styles, leading to better workplace communication AND healthier, more productive and successful organizations.
I am pleased to offer a full suite of Everything DiSC® assessments, workshops and reports for your workplace.
For close to 30 years, I ferociously created and led the field of active transportation, transformed communities, taught as a guest/adjunct professor, gave hundreds of speeches, and earned several MBA’s worth of experience launching, leading, and exiting businesses and organizations.
My work included 4 years at an International Think Tank, 6 years as Bicycle Program Coordinator for the City of Portland, and 17 years as co-founder of Alta Planning + Design and Alta Bicycle Share, Inc.
Along the way, I co-created a professional networking organization, an academic program, national coalition of cities — plus led a movement to overhaul the nation’s bikeway design guidelines.
I also wrote a book, Joyride: Pedaling Toward a Healthier Planet — which tells the story of how a group of determined visionaries transformed Portland, Oregon into a cycling mecca and inspired the nation.
Good stuff, right? A very cool career, indeed!
But if you asked me what I’m most proud of, I’d say without hesitation — my three amazing kids!
Skyler - 25, Sasha - 21, and Levi - 11.
For the past decade, I’ve been behind the scenes, coaching, advising and investing in female-led companies. And I started a community organization, Eastside Jewish Commons.
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Also, I write an advice column — Fabulous Female Founders, offering exuberant, experience-based advice in response to questions from busy founders like YOU.
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Overcome challenges, embrace success. Let's talk.
