MY PATH

My journey as a speaker began in my teens, when I stood on stages speaking about women’s empowerment before I had fully grown into my own voice.

That early passion eventually expanded into a broader interest in confidence, communication, leadership, and the way people make sense of their experiences.

Professionally, I spent more than a decade working in customer success, consulting, strategy, and leadership within the technology industry. I helped organizations navigate change, solve complex problems, strengthen relationships, and turn insight into action.

Although moving from technology into healthcare workforce development may appear to be an unusual pivot, the connecting thread has always been people.

I became most interested in the questions beneath the immediate problem:

Where had trust broken down?

What was making change difficult?

How was frustration shaping communication?

What would help people move forward together?

Those questions became the foundation of the work I do today.

Professionally, I have spent much of my career working at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and transformation.

My work has taken me into boardrooms and leadership conversations across industries, where I’ve been recognized for my ability to bring clarity and perspective to high-stakes decisions. I was recently honored with the President’s Award for my influence at the executive level, recognized for helping leaders navigate complexity and move toward meaningful results.

Earlier in my academic career, I graduated cum laude in the top ten percent of my class, earning degrees in Finance and Spanish.

But the work that continues to matter most to me is helping people step into greater clarity about who they are and how they want to show up in the world.

I also understand healthcare from the patient’s side.

At eight years old, I survived a diabetic coma and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Since then, I have spent most of my life managing a chronic condition and navigating healthcare systems.

Those experiences have shown me that excellent care involves more than clinical knowledge. Patients also remember whether they felt heard, respected, believed, and treated like a whole person.

My lived experience does not make me a clinician, and I do not provide clinical education. It does, however, give me a personal understanding of how trust, consistency, and everyday communication shape a person’s experience of care.

It is one of the reasons I feel deeply connected to supporting the professionals responsible for providing it.

Today, I create interactive workshops and speaking experiences for healthcare teams and other organizations whose work depends on strong relationships and sustained human connection.

I have partnered with Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic and the Southeast AIDS Education and Training Center to support multidisciplinary HIV care professionals, including clinicians, nurses, case managers, social workers, peer navigators, program leaders, and support staff.

My sessions address challenges such as mission fatigue, patient trust, difficult conversations, recurring barriers, team morale, and continued engagement in care.

Rather than offering inspiration alone, I help participants examine what is happening in their daily work and identify practical changes they can make in their communication, team practices, and approach to the people they serve.

Before founding In Full Power, I received a President’s Award for my influence at the executive level and my ability to help leaders navigate complexity and achieve meaningful results.

I graduated cum laude in the top ten percent of my class, earning degrees in Finance and Spanish.

Outside of workshops and stages, I am a writer, podcast host, runner, traveler, and lifelong observer of people.

I have traveled solo around the world, explored more than fifteen national parks, and spent countless miles running through cities, neighborhoods, and trails.

Those experiences have expanded my perspective and reinforced something I carry into every room I enter: there is rarely only one way to understand what is happening.

Curiosity creates room for better questions, stronger relationships, and new possibilities.

At its core, my work helps people become more thoughtful about how they respond to the demands of meaningful work.

Because policies, processes, and expertise matter—but so do trust, communication, perspective, and the way people treat one another along the way.

That is where In Full Power does its work.