I've been inside fast-growing organizations at nearly every stage. I know what breaks at 17 people, what breaks at 100, and what breaks after mergers or acquisitions.  

The topics that come up most often tend to cluster around a few themes. Some clients come in with one of these clearly named. Others arrive with something more abstract, like a friction they can't resolve, and we find our way to the real thing together.

• Managing your own energy, doubt, and inner voice at the pace that leadership demands

• Scaling as a leader, and the transition from operator to leader

• Leading a team that didn't choose you

• Making hard calls about hiring, firing, promoting, and compensating

• When the company changes direction and you're not sure whether you fit

I've also been through the working parent transition in multiple ways, taking the first-ever maternity leave in a startup and a second leave returning to a C-suite role at a $1Bn+ revenue business. That experience sits at an intersection many coaches haven't actually lived: leadership and the very human shift of becoming a parent. If you're planning parental leave, dreading the return, supporting someone on your team, or just struggling to hold it all as a working parent: I've been there, and I can help.

And I have a recent career-reinvention story. I chose to stop, to not have the next thing lined up, and to re-emerge in a totally different domain. If you're in that territory, or headed there, I understand it from the inside.

A few other things about me:

• fmr Chief People Officer at Datavant (from employee 17 to 10,000-person post-merger organization)

• Founder, Exponential Scholars (education non-profit)

• MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business

• BA, Harvard College

• Parent of 3 little kids, in the diaper/stroller/sliced grapes/training wheels chapter

• I write about talent, culture, leadership on Medium and I'm on LinkedIn.