My Approach to Leadership Development

I believe that every individual is full of possibilities and capable of making a positive difference in the world.  My goal is to help you find the key to unlocking your potential, so that you can realize your vision and optimize your impact. 

How you will benefit

  • You will expand your possibilities and your capacity as an inspirational leader.
  • You will sharpen your vision, navigate change, make smart decisions, and build your brand, so that you can have more impact on the world.  
  • You will uncover truths about yourself. You will gain insight about how to overcome obstacles to your success. You will feel seen, heard, and understood, and gain a deeper understanding of what’s important to you.  
  • You will develop an audience-first communications approach designed to help you share your world-changing ideas and become the leader you are meant to be. With these new skills, you will captivate hearts, change minds, influence people, and achieve your goals.  
  • You will learn how to tap into the power of trust, unconditional love, and belief in yourself and others.

Inspirational leader, brand builder and experienced board director

My experience on both sides of the board room table gives me a unique perspective on your challenges. As a Senior Vice President, General Manager, and Chief Programming Executive reporting directly to the CEO of PBS, I led a division that re-focused the PBS KIDS identity, guided its digital transformation to reach the next generation, and reclaimed its place as the gold standard in children’s media. As a director of public company and non-profit boards, I guide CEOs and leadership teams to sharpen their strategy, strengthen their brand equity, and transform their business models to meet rapidly changing market and audience needs. 

As a leader in the media industry, I put my creative energies into developing talent, building strong relationships, and guiding teams to overcome impossible odds to achieve their goals. I led teams who built the reputations of some of the most iconic and respected media brands today including PBS, PBS KIDS, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. One of my greatest strengths as a leader is inspiring individuals to believe in themselves and how they can contribute to a common purpose.  

Seven-time Emmy Award-winning communicator and TED speaker

My career in media made me skillful at leveraging powerful stories, engaging narratives, and effective visuals to influence people. In two TEDx talks, I shared transformative ideas and captivated global audiences. Preparing these talks helped me refine my ideas, hone my storytelling skills, structure a compelling presentation, and develop my craft as a speaker.

The teams I led at PBS won seven National Emmy Awards. As executive producer, my role was to identify and cultivate talent, crystallize our message, and deliver a powerful, emotional experience. 

Superpowers: asking questions, active listening, and synthesizing information

When I was a little girl, I decided I wanted to follow the footsteps of broadcast journalist Barbara Walters. In a field dominated by men, she stood out as an intelligent and empathetic listener who, by asking genuine, insightful questions, led world leaders, visionaries, and icons in their fields to dig down deep and reveal their truest selves.   

Over many years in the worlds of journalism, media, and business, I have honed this skill and learned the benefits of using it to help executives make good decisions. My ability to sift through information, make connections, consider different angles, and concisely summarize what I’ve learned leads to deeper levels of understanding and problem solving. 

I will guide you through a reflective process to surface and synthesize critical information and offer a fresh perspective that helps you to re-frame your challenges.

My journey to becoming a catalyst

The silver lining of the pandemic for me was the opportunity to reassess my life and determine how I could have the most impact on the world. Soul searching led me to an epiphany: My greatest impact came from empowering emerging leaders over 37 years who went on to find their purpose, spread my influence, and improve the success rates for social impact companies throughout the world. I realized that if I devote the next stage of my career to developing visionaries with big ideas about making the world better and leaders who can improve lives, my work will have a multiplier effect. 

I did not arrive at this critical decision alone. I looked to a guide to give me perspective and help me find my north star. Punit Aggarwal, the visionary behind Founder Bay, is a supremely talented coach who has developed a unique approach to cultivating authentic and powerful leaders. 

Punit motivated me to commit to a 200-hour yoga teacher training program that changed my life. The training challenged me physically and emotionally. I allowed myself to be vulnerable and to face my deepest fears which transformed my way of thinking and seeing the world. I found my purpose. My yoga journey gave me a framework for living life in alignment with my core values, prioritizing balance, mindfulness, and service to humanity.

Inspired by this experience, I returned to Punit who trained me in an original method of leadership development that he created based on insights from 10,000+ coaching conversations and experiences, including in his role as Head of Entrepreneur Development at Google. As his apprentice, I practiced how to guide leaders through a journey of personal and professional self-growth and help them discover their power and potential.


My greatest joy and greatest challenge

The greatest and most joyful experience in my life—and the most challenging—has been raising two incredible daughters. In my quest to learn about parenting, and critical to developing my expertise as the Chief Programming Executive of PBS KIDS, I devoted endless hours to studying child development and psychology. 

What I learned about nurturing amazing children applies to every aspect of leadership including cultivating individual strengths and building winning teams. Most of all, the experience helped me become a better person.  

I want to help leaders use what we know about childhood development (after all, we were all children once) to make their people and organizations stronger. It starts with the knowledge that everyone wants to be seen, heard, and understood. 

We are influenced by our formative childhood experiences, but we don’t need to be defined by them. We can rewrite the story.

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