I am a seeker, an explorer of inner and outer worlds. I often see the fabric of connections that already exist and are waiting to be discovered. This fabric is woven in love.

As a native Midwesterner, I experience distinctive cycles of nature, sometimes long and harsh. Winter turns into spring. Summer turns into autumn, just as the heart expands and contracts. We do not individually or collectively ascend on a perpetual straight line. If we believe that humanity is basically good, and I do, then someday the flickering windows lining the street will eventually be replaced by people walking out onto the street.

It is connectedness that I seek.

I am a student and practitioner in the art and science of working together, with a focus on the dynamics of life that lead to coordinated movement in teams, and in ecosystems. In 2009, I launched Canopy Gap, which has evolved into an ecosystem design and coaching practice inspired by my passion for cooperation, collaboration, and navigating complexity. With wisdom guide Marti Spiegelman, I co-host the podcast and leadership program Leading from Being. I am a certified facilitator in Respectful Confrontation and the Kahakulei Institute’s Second Circle methodology, as well as the Senior Fellow for Architectures of Collaboration at the People-Centered Internet, a US-based nonprofit working on global tech cooperation. I serve on the boards of the Fierce Civility Project and Waskawiwin, a native-American organization supporting digital equity.

With graduate work in psychology, interest in network science and ecology, and training in awareness and somatic learning, I thrive when bridging disciplines and dimensions. Having worked in the corporate world, technology startups, and with a wide variety of entrepreneurs and nonprofits, I have helped launch 18 organizations and initiatives in the last fifteen years, as well as worked with large organizations including Microsoft, Lenovo, Kaiser Permanente, NASA, Dell, and Northwestern University.

I am accustomed to a diverse set of spaces-–from boardrooms to laboratories to forests–-and revel in splitting time between the tropical dry forest of Costa Rica and the wilderness of Northern Michigan. With my partner Pia, I am also an instructor of Argentine Tango.