Big Work is about the perspectives, tools, insights, and courage we need to create and facilitate connection – with ourselves and others – so we can all play our parts in moving the world toward a better future.

About Me

My deepest purpose and highest aspiration are to offer and inspire the connections we crave so that we can do the Big Work we’re here to do. 

I’m here to spark people’s desire for connection and expand their capacity to build it.  It’s that simple.  That looks like training, coaching, speaking, writing, facilitating – all in service to providing tools, perspectives, insights, and experiences that inspire people to connect.

Growing up in Nebraska, engaging with friends and colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis, and decades of doing Big Work with a wide variety of partners - from starting schools for children who are deaf and hard of hearing to training leaders and building culture in a growing subsidiary of a national bank –I have learned that there are simple tools, approaches, and perspectives that create connection.  I have seen how connection generates courage and I am humbled and awed by the fact that when meaningful connection is offered, people will lean into it every time.