I have had three different professional careers over the past 40 years: librarian, psychotherapist, and Co-Active Coach. However, I’ve only had one job during all of this time: to put people together with the information they need to create great results in their lives! I have been both a Certification Supervisor and a Certification Examiner for the past 30 years.

B.A. Sociology, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
A.M.L.S Library Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
M.S.W, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Various postgraduate courses in psychology and related disciplines.

I was the first person hired by CTI to replace Karen, Henry, and Laura as a Certification Examiner.
I wrote the first manual for the CTI Professional Coaching workshop and I was the first coaching advice columnist (and still the only one) in the Co-Active World!

Because I lost my hearing in 2007, I had to reprogram my brain to hear through my bilateral cochlear implants. Consequently, my expertise is now in listening. I listen to what people say and to what they don’t say. I love training coaches to listen not only to the words of their clients but also to their energy, to their deepest yearnings, and to their fears that live in the stories they tell. Then I teach them to help their clients reframe their stories and to use their new narratives to create the lives and situations they most desire.

A fun fact about me is that by the time I was three years old, I was already reading full books. I haven’t stopped reading yet. According to my book app, as of today, I’ve read almost 6,000 books and over a million and a quarter pages! And still many more to read on my To Be Read List!