Does your business suck the life out of you?

Leadership coaching for small business owners in St. Louis ready to move from chaos to clarity.

I’ve always been a people person. I grew up in the Deep South and studied psychology and philosophy at Louisiana State University.

I graduated just before the 2007 financial crisis, which wasn’t exactly a great time to keep piling on student loans and head straight to graduate school. I needed a skilled trade and a reliable income, so I went back to school for respiratory therapy and eventually landed in the ICU at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

What started as a practical career decision turned into nearly two decades in healthcare, eventually opening doors to outside medical sales and business development.

I had a rewarding career. I worked with some great people. And I also had a front-row seat to what happens when organizations become dysfunctional and entrenched in competing incentives.

Communication disappeared exactly when it was needed most. Managers avoided conversations everyone knew needed to happen. Different parts of the organization worked toward competing goals.

And sometimes we created an entirely new process to fix the problems caused by the last process.

After a while, you start to notice the patterns.

I’m a straight shooter. I call it like I see it.

A lot of people appreciate that about me. But in the sprawling, complicated world of healthcare, I also learned that not every leader wants someone in the room pointing out the obvious.

I kept coming back to a question:

How can a group of intelligent, capable adults show up every day, agree on exactly what needs to happen, and still somehow not get it done?

I wanted to understand those business traps better—not just from a management perspective, but from a human one.

So, at the ripe age of 41, I changed careers again.

I went back to school and earned a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Missouri Baptist University. Today, I work as a therapist in the St. Louis area while also working with business owners and leaders as an executive and leadership coach.

Businesses are systems. And systems are made of people.

People bring their personalities, strengths, fears, blind spots, communication styles, values, and baggage to work with them.

That’s where I come in.

A lot of consultants are trained around rigid personality models and standardized leadership frameworks. Those tools can be useful, but people are more complicated than a four-letter personality type.

Generations have different expectations about work. People experience recognition and accountability differently. What motivates one employee may do absolutely nothing for another. And sometimes what looks like a performance problem is really a leadership, communication, or systems problem.

My approach combines nearly two decades of real-world business experience with clinical training in human behavior.

No corporate jargon. No motivational theatrics. No pretending a personality assessment is going to magically fix your company.

Just honest conversations, practical changes, and enough humor to keep the hard conversations productive.

You probably already know where the problems are.

The hard part is figuring out why they keep happening—and what to do differently.

That’s the work we’ll do together.