Psychology in practice
I help people and organizations see greater possibilities, build capability, and turn meaningful goals into forward movement—using behavioral science, learning design, practical execution, and a perspective shaped by real life.
The portfolio turns experience into visible proof: programs built, problems diagnosed, audiences served, and ideas translated into action.
Designed and delivered recurring instruction for 100+ students across self-advocacy, workplace behavior, career readiness, independent living, and transition to adulthood.
View case study →Helped redesign a rotating group discussion into a more coherent host-and-guest format, then co-hosted, interviewed guests, moderated complex discussions, and adapted live delivery.
View case study →A performance-diagnosis demonstration showing how to distinguish skill gaps from process, communication, environmental, and accountability problems.
View case study →I can personally build the work—and I can lead the structures, programs, and people that make the work scale.
Diagnose learning needs, design from scratch, create lessons and assessments, facilitate effectively, and evaluate whether learning transferred into performance.
Explore L&D work →Identify blind spots and distinguish whether the real issue is skill, leadership, communication, process, accountability, environment—or a combination.
Organizational work →Evidence-grounded coaching for established people who want to lead better, complete what matters, stop wasting energy on the wrong things, and see new possibilities.
Coaching approach →My professional work is grounded in psychology and evidence. My perspective is also shaped by living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, rebuilding through loss and major life change, and continuing to pursue education, work, relationships, service, and ambitious goals.
I do not treat adversity as a credential. I treat it as context: it has taught me that what looks like a ceiling is sometimes only the current frame.
Read my storyCompleted doctoral research, ongoing scholarly service, program evaluation, and new research questions at the intersection of human behavior, disability, and AI.
Qualitative doctoral research completed at Northcentral University in 2020.
Explore dissertation →A proposed mixed-methods study examining whether disclosure of significant physical disability changes how frontier AI frames capable adults’ options and ambitions.
View research concept →Qualitative inquiry, evidence synthesis, rubric-based evaluation, program assessment, and external doctoral research review.
Research profile →“I help people expand what they believe is possible—and then turn that larger future into the next practical step.”Coaching philosophy
My speaking focuses on overcoming odds, rebuilding, redefining success, moving from limitation to possibility, and building a life you are capable of—without losing sight of what makes the achievement worthwhile.
Employment, coaching, organizational work, speaking, research collaboration, writing, and mission-driven leadership can all begin here.