For nearly a decade, I’ve worked where most leadership coaches haven’t:

✔️ Side by side with dispatch, coaching the chaos and competing priorities and training on customer service
✔️ Coaching front line managers and creating leadership development for construction teams
✔️ On dusty job sites, building trust with front line crews and customers
✔️ Coaching mid-level and executive leaders in operations and decision-making
✔️ Panels and Keynote speaking at executive forums, helping leaders bridge the disconnect between the office and the field

I had to work and live it to understand construction.

I was labeled a high-performer. A fixer. A strategist in steel-toes one day, heels the next.

I got my start in a high-volume manufacturing plant learning operations back in the early 2000’s. I worked in one of the largest chicken processing plants, learning what true labor and injuries were - as well as the art of punching in and out. It was the best school to learn what real hard work was, and pushed me to finish college to see what else I might discover.

After graduation and some time in non-profits and teaching, I stepped into construction (ready-mix concrete, cement, and other building materials), where I fell in love with the people - totally immersing myself in the culture and working in the field as much as possible.

I enjoyed doing ride along’s with drivers and salesmen, getting to know customers, and learning the way our products impacted the industry.

Before long I was learning about cementitious products, project cycles, and the daily grind of leadership and safety in construction. Eventually, I grew into higher roles and moved into designing learning & development programs and coaching executives across business units and departments.

I became the Sr. Manager of Learning & Development and and began deeper initiatives around employee engagement, succession planning and building a Strengths-based organization with true leadership development.

As a Certified Executive Coach working in Human Resources, I climbed the corporate ladder in construction with intensity and pride, leading initiatives like front line management training, leadership development, engagement surveys, customer service, healthy change, and strategic workforce planning.

Then Came a Pause.

In 2023, I stepped away to care for my daughter as she recovered from a long-time illness. For the first time in years, I truly stopped. No meetings. No metrics. Just space. And in that space, I realized:

We’ve outgrown the way we do business in construction - specifically, the way we lead our people. The positive impact we could have on them is being lost in our antiquated processes and the minutia of busyness: “The way we’ve always done it”

We’re chasing initiatives instead of impact. Touting buzzwords over behavior change. And burning out the very people we rely on to build our businesses.

Mid-level leaders are expected to carry it all - translating directives, managing chaos, and holding culture together within their teams if they’re lucky.

Executives sometimes present more than others, seem disconnected from the rest of the org to some, and HR with their procedures, checklists and overwhelming “overdue” emails leave people wanting less and less of the corporate push.

I get it. I’ve lived it. And I help fix it.

Today, I coach, speak, and lead workshops that help construction and manufacturing leaders:

✔️ Lead through change with confidence - for intentional growth

✔️ Rebuild trust, culture, and communication from the inside out

✔️ Build teams in strengths and what drives them, managing what gets in their way

✔️ Create benches and healthy succession planning for the next generation of talent

✔️ Discover what they've outgrown, and what has outgrown them

My work is rooted in real experience, not theory. It’s built on the belief that transformation doesn’t happen in binders, dashboards or hours of online coursework - it happens when people are honest, candid, and present enough to reflect - and grow.

Leadership in our industry is overdue for a remodel. Let’s build something better.

Here’s what you’ll get when you work with me:

• Intentionality. I’m not here to convince you need something or sell you any service. I’m here to empower you to figure out exactly what you need while I support along the way.

• Kind candor. I’ll tell you what I see, what I don’t see, and work with you so that you can too. Sometimes our vision is weakest with the things right in front of us.

• Reflective, deep questions. Coaching is all about empowering YOU. The answers you seek are already within you. I help “nudge” ah-ha moments to fruition.

• A partnership. My goal is to partner with you to live and work at your very best. (Your Perpetual Capacity)

• Clear, confidential communication. Along with candor, the best way to support you is to communicate clearly, attentively and in confidence.

• People results. Your business improves when people are a healthier version of themselves. If you’re a top leader, we’ll be starting with you.

• Growth. This means you’ll have to encounter change, but we’ll approach it from a healthy place with a clear, strategized approach. You can’t have growth without change.

Here’s who’s coming to work with you:

• A bi-lingual (Spanish) traveler, having started my journeys to Mexico at age 14. I’ve climbed Machu Picchu and stood in awe of the Urubamba River Valley in Peru. I’ve also been fortunate to trek through Turkey’s Izmir, Istanbul and Kusadasi, and work missions in rural Dominican Republic. I now call Colorado my home and enjoy the Rocky Mountains.

• A lover of diversity. Diversity of people, culture and thought. I believe everyone adds value unless they’re sucking the life out of their team/organization. You’ll get that Jen too (that’s the candor).

• A mom of two amazing adults who’ve made me proud beyond belief.

• A podcast host (if you’re into podcasts…) Stop. Drop. & R.O.L.E. is another way I support leaders and teams.

• An intentional, kind, candid professional that believes in true leadership and robust professional development. I geek out on the writings of Patrick Lencioni, Albert Tate, Brené Brown, Markus Buckingham, Craig Groeschel, and often binge on Gallup research.

• A past member of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), Chicago Chapter #325 (Camp NAWIC liaison and speaker/facilitator at key events)

• An aspiring author. My first book is in the works, set for publication spring, 2026.

• A Global Leadership Summit (GLS) junkie. It’s the only summit I’ve committed to for the past 9 years since discovering it. A professional goal is to one day speak there.

• A real person. I think I’m funnier than my kids do, I enjoy the front range in Colorado Springs in my Jeep (no ducks), and I put my heels (or boots) on one foot at a time just like everyone else.