I am a Personal and Organizational Development professional with 25 years’ experience leading impact driven organizations, teams, and projects.

Depending on the scale and needs of the project, I support my clients as an Executive Coach, Management Consultant, Educator and Facilitator.

My specialty is personal transformational education and leadership coaching.

I have founded and directed multiple large scale educational departments in personal and professional education, and have overseen the concept, design, production, marketing and educational objectives of over 3000 programs over my 25 year career.

Skillsets Include

Adult Learning, Curriculum Design, Content Curation, Strategic Planning and Facilitation, Administration, Program Design, Marketing, Executive Coaching, Assessments

Professional Background

Education and training includes:

Masters of Science in Management, specializing in Organizational Development and Adult Education; Bachelors of Science in Psychology

Certified Purpose Guide™, Positive Intelligence Coach, Cross-Cultural Mediator, Body-Breath Facilitator

Further training and certifications in Executive Coaching, Strategic Planning, Facilitation, Appreciative Inquiry, Nonviolent Communication, Theory-U & Gene Keys

25 year study in personal development and healing including: Psychology, Yoga, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, & Spiritual Philosophy.

Roles have included:

Founder of ASA Evolve, LLC: my private coaching and consulting practice. Here I integrate all my experience, learnings and aspirations. I have served innumerable clients in the 13 years of full time private practice. I am an Associate at various leadership firms including Boston based, Seven Stones Leadership Group and San Francisco based, Incite To Leadership.

Founder of Thinking Partners: a boutique professional services firm comprised of senior professionals in educational programming, marketing, production and administration of experiential education, specializing in personal and professional growth, with deep experience in spiritual retreat centers, travel, university extension schools, and cultural public programming.

Director of Education Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Center: This is an internationally known classical yoga monastery, education and retreat center. For seven years I advised the leadership team on expanding their international presence, while we produced hundreds of courses, trainings, and symposiums annually, in subjects such as spirituality, science and consciousness, spiritual activism, and holistic health.

Director of Education The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies: where I served on the executive team, and oversaw the design and delivery of 400 programs annually in holistic health and personal growth.

Director of a Public Humanities The University of Denver: where I partnered with experts and luminaries to produce hundreds of short, noncredit courses in the humanities, designed for a discerning audience. Built partnerships with city-wide civic and artistic institutions.

Program Director for Colorado State AmeriCorps: managing a statewide network of domestic peace corps volunteers; providing capacity building leadership training and overseeing the federal grant.

Director of Programs for Colorado Campus Compact: providing capacity building to universities statewide committed to civic engagement and public service.

Volunteer roles include Volunteer Executive Coach for National Political Campaigns, Program Designer for Spanish speakers on behalf of HIV/AIDS Coalition; Researcher at children’s psychiatric hospitals; Mentor for children at risk.

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