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I live in South Lake Tahoe, California — a small mountain town of a ~19,000 people at 6,300ft. In the cold months you’ll find me digging snow out from my front door, and in summer hiking by the river. I was born and raised in New Zealand, moving to the US with my American husband in 2016. I continue to invest substantial time in New Zealand, spending multiple months per year in my enriching and inspiring communities there.
I surveyed collaborators who I have worked with closely for many years:
| ⭐️ Ambitious, strategic and inquiring.
"everyone you work with, including those 2x your age have such respect of your brain and character for your strategic capacity", “the sectors you work in require boundaryless thinking, and with your curiosity you design tractable steps to impact”
⭐️ Insightful systems thinking.
"You distill insight", "ability to cut through ideas & bullshit in a world of noise", "you find the patterns, reflect on their meaning, connect it to theory, and then redesign", “It's like you can hear what needs to be said in a room, see the invisible thread that joins ideas, or pinpoint the model that is needed when we're all still staring at a whiteboard of data.”
⭐️ Creative, generative, visionary.
"You have a very specific type of penetrative clear thinking that finds the shortest distance between a strategic big picture abstract goal and the chain of actions required, and then you articulate it really well. This has been true for at least ten years, consistently." | ⭐️ Direct, 'incisive', clear communication.
"engaging, informative, smart, and fair", "you say things which others wouldn't, in a way that lands lovingly and insightfully and powerfully."
⭐️ Intuitive understanding of other people.
"You inspire people & make them feel seen and valued. You give genuine, unique words of affirmation and show up for people in the ways they need, often without the individuals even voicing what they need”, “ I am always blown away, how you manage to understand a lot of what I am feeling without me having to say it.”
⭐️ Perceptive, empathetic and caring.
"I don't know if I've ever met someone who genuinely cares as deeply as you do about so many other people, ideas and causes."
⭐️ Mentorship & Coaching.
"It feels like you have a lived experience, framework, terminology, model, or book for everything. I feel enriched in every conversation we have because you provide so much insight" | ⭐️ Personalized, empowering management.
"Sensing fast what will work for them, where their edges and needs are. Making people feel like they can get done whatever they need to get done."
⭐️ Facilitation and experience design.
"No matter how many people I convene with internationally, I still consider you one of the best", "you have a GIFT. A gift that even strangers feel compelled to praise. The way you approach facilitation with calmness and intelligence is something rare." "you sense what's really happening in a space."
⭐️ Attention to detail.
“You consider everything, it’s ambitious to have this level of attention to detail, yet you nail it every time”, “you rarely do anything without prior consideration and planning”.
⭐️ Introspective, reflective, adaptive.
"your ability to receive feedback during a session you're facilitating, and simultaneously spin that into the conversation whilst also redesigning the second half of what you're about to run, is amazing." | | --- | --- | --- |