I’m a dedicated coach and consultant to physicians, leaders and executives. I believe that professional development is a vertical growth process that expands the mindset and perspective. This increases clients’ abilities to innovate and lead into the future. Focused on people, teams and organizations on the rise or stalled in their performance, I engage, collaborate and deliver on expectations of extending leadership capabilities, increasing organizational learning, fostering change, and improving client relations. In short, I help clients imagine and achieve exceptional success.

My clients have included physicians, mid-level practitioners, nurses, health care administrators and mid-level managers. Some of them have had system-wide responsibilities, others have managed residency programs along with all of their stakeholders or professional services to the healthcare sector. I have had a long-term relationship with an academic medical center, where I have coached leaders from many specialties. My private clients have been on journeys to more effective performance, higher levels of employment, or transitions in their careers.

I coach from a perspective built on generative principles, i.e., know your strengths and use them well, along with constructive development, i.e., understand your assumptions and how they constrain your success. Emotional intelligence is also a cornerstone of my work with clients.

With two decades of experience in leadership and talent development, I was attracted to coaching when I noticed that new behaviors and skills from training often weren’t sustained. Coincidentally, I started coaching internally in 2008 as the executive team members at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn NY wanted more robust preparation for employees in mid to senior roles. Initially, my clients were high-potential managers who were carefully selected to participate in leadership development. As I moved to the Health Quest System, my coaching clients at times included physicians and leaders with a history of disruptive behavior which impacted patients and staff. I also made coaching the centerpiece of a new premier leadership program, during transition in leadership and the need for them to mentor the next generation of leaders.

I am a Fellow of the Institute of Coaching, McLean/Harvard Medical School. Additionally, I have earned certification as a Physician Development Coach.