MY APPROACH: Understand and be explicit about underlying power dynamics that need to be neutralized or shifted, and build clear authority and accountability while enhancing collaboration and cohesion

Most organizations shy away from being explicit about power, while at the same time striving to engage stakeholders across positional lines. Leaders talk about empowerment and distributed leadership but struggle to name where power actually lives, who holds it, and what they're willing to shift. This creates decision paralysis, dropped balls, and teams who have accountability without authority. Power-sharing becomes empty rhetoric, and trust erodes.

My belief: When you make power dynamics explicit and use power transparently, it doesn't diminish—it multiplies. Power can self-generate momentum and strengthen morale when teams have clarity and shared purpose across lines of responsibility.

I help leadership teams identify the power structures that currently exist, and shift them to serve their goals. Whether you're scaling, restructuring, moving from founder-led to distributed leadership, or experiencing tension you can't name—I facilitate the honest conversations that create clarity about who decides what, who has authority over what, and how power can create momentum instead of gridlock.