How do we unleash the full potential of people to address humanity’s most pressing challenges? This question is the guiding force of my career.
It is what led me into the world of organizational development, talent management, learning and development, and leadership coaching.
I started my career as a software engineer dedicated to leveraging technology for community empowerment. After a while, I realized that the greatest challenges to building software are rarely technological. Rather, the challenges tend to be humans.
So, I began training and coaching teams in agile practices. After some success, I scaled the approach by building and leading a team of agile coaches.
Not long after, my attention turned to the organization. I became fascinated with the enabling (or disabling!) power of organizational culture. Seeing that culture is shaped by values, leadership, incentivizing structures, group dynamics, and organizational processes, organizational development became my new focus. I dove headfrist into developing and scaling talent management systems, learning and development programs, and leadership development. It felt like I found my professional home.
Most of my career unfolded over 13 years at the Wikimedia Foundation, the global remote-first organization behind Wikipedia. Since then, I began a private coaching and consulting practice. But I quickly realized I prefer to work within an organ ization; I love to be immersed in and deeply connected with organizational culture, and to see and continually refine the fru its of my labors. My current aspirations are to find a managerial role at a mission-driven technology company where I can leverage and expand my skills.
When I’m not working, you can find me either in the mountains (skiing, hiking, backpacking, fly fishing), on a meditation coushin, in the kitchen, or binging scifi.