Leadership growth, grounded in science.

I grew up on a family farm two miles outside a South Dakota town of 200 people. As a dual US/Canadian citizen, I spent my first two years of college in Canada, and later taught in Canada and Mongolia — where an extreme winter disaster in the English classroom, and what I learned watching people find strength in hard seasons, eventually sent me to graduate school and to Industrial‑Organizational Psychology.

Those years shaped the way I work now: leadership translates across surprisingly different worlds, and the best consulting respects both.

At California Baptist University, I designed and now direct the Master's in I‑O Psychology — a nationally Top‑10 program and the #1 I‑O Psychology program in California. In eight years the program has prepared 200+ organizational practitioners now working across Fortune 500 firms, global consulting groups, and mission‑driven institutions, with an 85% placement rate within four months of graduation.

Through Momentum Coaching + Consulting, I advise leaders on leadership formation, strategic alignment, and organizational culture — drawing on industrial‑organizational psychology and cross‑cultural leadership research. I've designed executive programs for global brands, supported leadership integration through mergers and acquisitions, and led executive retreats for nonprofits and private organizations.

From 2022–2023 I served as International Relations and Protocol Officer for the Office of the Mayor, City of Riverside, leading a trade delegation to Gangnam, South Korea, and advising on a proposed $50M Korean cultural center. My consulting practice spans the United States, Mexico, and India, and I've presented research at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, CIPD Dublin, and the Western Psychological Association.