Resilience isn't a personality trait. It's a design problem.

Keynote speaker, executive coach, and workplace mental health strategist helping organizations stop asking people to push through and start fixing what they're pushing through.

I spent nearly two decades in HR leadership across Fortune 500 companies, startups, and ENR-ranked contractors before I named the pattern I kept seeing: we were teaching people to cope with conditions we had the power to change.

Today, I work with leaders and organizations as a speaker, coach, and educator, challenging the myth that resilience is something individuals need more of. My work draws on trauma-informed principles, psychological safety research, and hard-won operational experience to help leadership teams build workplaces where people don't have to be superhuman to do good work.

I'm the founder of The Wounded WorkforceĀ® and Executive Director of the Center for Construction Mental Health, but this page is about the work I do at the podium, in the coaching relationship, and on the page: helping you see your organization's culture clearly and design something better.

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Talks that change what leaders do Monday morning

Every keynote is built for your room, grounded in nearly two decades of work inside real organizations, and designed to land with executives, the people on the front lines of your work, and everyone in between.

The Resilience Myth

Why resilience programs fail, and what to build instead. Your people aren't running out of grit. They're running out of reasons to spend it. The flagship talk for leadership teams, HR conferences, and organizations tired of wellness initiatives that don't move the numbers.

The Toughness Tax

What "suck it up" culture actually costs construction and frontline industries, in turnover, injuries, and lives, and how the toughest crews are rethinking it without going soft. For construction, manufacturing, energy, and safety audiences.

The Wounded Workforce

Most of your people are carrying something, and your workplace is either compounding it or accounting for it. The seven conditions that separate cultures that break people from cultures built to hold them. Not therapy at work: a practical leadership framework, drawn from nearly two decades inside real organizations. For executive audiences and people leaders.

Not seeing what your room needs? Every organization's conditions are different. Tell me about yours, and I'll build a session around it.

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On The Record with

Fast Company

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Quartz

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I Hate It Here

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Girlboss

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UNLEASH

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Fast Company āœ³ļøŽ Quartz āœ³ļøŽ I Hate It Here āœ³ļøŽ Girlboss āœ³ļøŽ UNLEASH āœ³ļøŽ

Trusted By:

  • HimsĀ®

  • Seattle Housing Authority

  • Colas, Inc

  • DPR Construction

  • Yokohama Tire

  • Western Wall & Ceiling Contractor's Association

  • Hilbers, Inc.

  • Bereave

  • Culture Amp

  • TATA Consumer Products

  • National Park Service