Embracing sabbaticals & transitions as catalysts for inner transformation.
I partner with midlife & mid-career tech professionals to craft intuitive, creative & joyful career breaks & transitions as an avenue for inner change.
My story.
With forceful vengeance, 2020 and the inception of the pandemic compelled each of us to confront our lives with harsh clarity, and I was no exception. While I had experienced success in my 14 year career as a tech professional leading product delivery for brands such as Google Chrome Enterprise, Kia, Visa and LGE, I felt stuck in a cycle of misaligned jobs and burnout. As a creative working in tech, I craved life and work that felt resonant and soulful.
My pandemic moment of confrontation happened in February 2021. Staring at my computer screen during my remote job, I felt the weight of my 14 year career pattern of crushing workloads and multiple burnout cycles.
Was my life just going to be one debilitating job after another until I died?
This moment of reckoning, spurred me to take a year long career break to redirect my next steps in life. Much more than just a time of restoration and travel, as a significant and uncertain transition, my sabbatical was my rebirth, restoring my connection to my inner wisdom and intuition. It gave me the courage to craft a new life rooted in what mattered most to me.
The chrysalis of transition.
Transitions can feel isolating and plunged in uncertainty and darkness, yet this darkness is that of a seed forming in the earth. You feel the shift within you of the old making way for the new, the stirring of potent change. As a sabbatical & transition coach, I partner with you to reconnect to your intuition and clarify your values, so that you can step into your next phase feeling aligned and empowered. Whether it’s an external impetus, such as a big life or career change, or an internal desire to make a shift, I help you navigate transition intuitively, creatively and joyfully.
Qualifications & experience
My coaching practice bridges my spectrum of experience across spiritual formation, leadership, product management and creativity.
Via local church, community and non-profit organizations, I have 15+ years of leadership, spiritual and cross-cultural training and development. I specialized in collaborating artistically to lead communities in creative and musical reflection to guide personal transformation.
As a product leader, I’ve collaborated and co-led teams to implement digital experiences for brands such as Apple, Google Chrome Enterprise, LGE and Kia.
A lifelong creative & writer, I’m a current member of The Sanctuary, and I’m an alumni of the Multicultural Arts Leadership Institute (MALI) and Interdisciplinary Writer’s Lab (IWL).