The most significant growth of your life
will probably happen in relationship
with someone else.
Which means the most significant work of your life will probably happen there too.
Relationships — in life, in leadership, in business — are one of the greatest opportunities for growth we will ever encounter. Not despite the difficulty. Because of it.
A marriage at a crossroads. A co-founder dynamic creating friction. A board that has stopped being able to function. A family facing a transition nobody prepared for. A community group fractured by conflict nobody’s willing to name out loud.
Whatever the relationship — this work is done together. All people present. In the room. Doing the work side by side.
As leaders, we encounter situations and opportunities for growth through our relationships all the time. Most of the time we handle it. We communicate, we adapt, we move forward.
But sometimes we need intervention. Fresh perspective. Someone outside the frame who can see what we can’t.
It’s the picture and the frame again —
we can get so ingrained in a dynamic, so close to the conflict, that we lose the ability to see it clearly. Sometimes an outsider can say the exact same thing you’ve been saying — and it lands differently when they do.
That’s where this work begins.
With listening sessions where everyone is disarmed and feels heard. Where we find the 2% of truth in the room that everyone can agree on. Where we build forward from that truth toward something that actually shifts.
This is work we love to do.
This work is right for you if:
The RelationSHIFT™
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Every engagement is customized to the relationship, the context, and what needs to move. Tell us a little about your situation and we’ll recommend the right fit.
Marriage Prep
SYMBIS-
For couples who want to build something strong before problems begin.
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A 90-day program that includes the SYMBIS Assessment for both partners, a full debrief, a private session with each partner to explore personal readiness, and three joint sessions. A positive shift — preparing well is the work.
Co-Founder &
Leadership Duo Coaching-
For professional pairs whose relationship is getting in the way of the work.
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Mediation-informed coaching for co-founders, business partners, board chairs and executive directors, or any two leaders whose dynamic has created friction, breakdown, or stalled momentum. Different work styles, founder syndrome, trust erosion — this is the work for that.
Team &
Board Alignment-
For groups where the relational dynamics are getting in the way of the mission.
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Facilitated alignment work for executive teams and boards experiencing internal conflict, communication breakdown, or the kind of tension that never gets named in meetings. The work goes beneath the surface to what’s actually driving it.
Family Meetings
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For families navigating significant transitions who need a skilled outside voice.
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A structured facilitated experience for families facing elder care decisions, blended family dynamics, estate conversations, or any moment when the family needs honest, guided conversation. Combines social work expertise, coaching, and facilitation.
Community Group
Retreats-
For sororities, faith-based organizations, community groups, and any collective navigating conflict or disconnection.
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Designed retreat experiences for groups experiencing sisterhood strife, internal friction, or the need for relational repair and renewed connection. Every retreat is built for the specific group, context, and desired outcome.
I’ve navigated relationship drama
personally and professionally.
Interpersonal conflict isn’t abstract to me. I’ve lived it at nearly every level — and successfully navigated through it.
I was married for thirty years. I went through separation and divorce. I found myself single and dating again at nearly fifty — which is its own kind of reckoning. I remarried. I’m now a newlywed navigating a blended family, an empty nest, and the beautiful complexity of five adult children — three of my own and two bonus kids I love as my own. I’ve parented teenagers. Survived college drop-offs. Watched my children become adults and had to figure out what that relationship looks like now.
I’ve also been the oldest sibling holding the family together through the hardest seasons — selling aging parents’ homes, navigating nursing home decisions, supporting a parent with Alzheimer’s and another with physical disability, and burying parents and grandparents while still being someone’s mother, wife, and leader. The sandwich generation is real. I’ve lived inside it.
And I’ve done this work professionally for just as long — in rooms where the conflict was old, deep, and everyone was exhausted.
I’ve been called when the co-founder who attracts all the funding is willing to resign — but not the one the board wants to lose. I’ve been called when a board member who objects to everything, disappears off camera during votes, and is reportedly talking down the organization to funders. I’ve been called when a school’s new chief academic officer has parents organized and calling for her resignation before she’s had a real chance. I’ve been called when an employee resource group for people of color receives a federal mandate that identity-based groups may be illegal — and needs help honoring the organization’s values while maintaining compliance.
These are not hypotheticals.
These are Tuesday.
My social work training, my methodology, and my life give me a unique vantage point for this work. I don’t come to it theoretically. I come to it having been in it — personally and professionally — and lived to tell about it.
What
People
say
“The relationship that challenges you most is often the one teaching you the most.”
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