Relief is here

a fractional COO with both
discipline and compassion

As a nonprofit leader, you often feel overwhelmed and prevented from focusing on what strategically matters most. Here you’ll find a partner with a method to break that cycle and guide you back to Center.

Purple Mark

Return to Center

When you lose your Center, you can’t adequately focus on vision, strategy, stewardship, and culture. I apply and share with you the Discipline with Compassion Paradigm—my leadership philosophy—while I diagnose and implement the operational changes needed to facilitate organizational impact.

Organic Intelligence

In a world rushing toward synthetic solutions, I offer wisdom earned through thirty-five years of in-the-flesh experience. Algorithms and AI can process data and model language, but they cannot navigate the subtle and delicate complexities of a mission-driven and human-centered organization.

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Grounded Wisdom

I offer more than two decades as a COO and CFO serving as a trusted confidant, thought partner, and future forecaster. My perspective is shaped by a unique blend of technical mastery and refined skills of accompaniment:

  • Operational Excellence: 20+ years of nonprofit financial and leadership oversight on scales from global to local, in states from rapid growth to crisis mode.
  • Attentive Presence: Certified professional coach, meditation guide, hospice volunteer, trained end-of-life doula.
  • Imaginative Intelligence: Intuitive thinker applying the natural cycles and ancient archetypes to frame organizational dynamics.

Organizational Cosmos

Your nonprofit is not a machine but a living ecosystem that moves in cycles of birth, growth, and transition. The Discipline with Compassion Paradigm helps navigate these dynamics through the rule of duality: there is always a counterpart.

Leading an organization requires enormous discipline, yet imposing discipline calls for compassion as balance. I use the symbols of the planets, which we all seem to innately comprehend, to illustrate how this philosophy plays out.

  • Sun & Moon: Burning purpose with readiness to change.
  • Mars & Venus: Drive toward outcomes with devotion to service.
  • Saturn & Jupiter: Structural integrity with inclusive culture.
  • Mercury: A unifying adaptive mindset.

Whether you choose to embrace this philosophy yourself, you can trust that as your partner this is what guides and inspires my work with you and your team.

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