Welcome Again To Mandala Leadership Coaching!
I am happy that you are exploring a coaching partnership with me!
I founded Mandala Leadership Coaching to help catalyze your leadership mastery and credibility, becoming a leader that inspires others and makes you proud of who you are and what you give!
A Bit About Me Professionally:
For most of my career, I have walked in the leader's shoes. I know the excitement of designing and leading initiatives; building, aligning, and supporting my team to bring their best to the table; structuring operations for maximum efficiency; and realizing rewarding impact.
I also know the stress and the weight of being responsible for the survival/growth/success of my organization and team.
As a coach, my job (and my joy) is to support your success as you navigate the opportunity and challenge of being an organizational leader. I offer thoughtful perspectives, practical wisdom, a useful box of coaching tools, and experience coaching leaders from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, nonprofits, and civil service.
Before starting to coach full time, my executive work was focused on organization building, team development, program design and execution, public relations, marketing, and revenue generation for organizations/business units averaging $1mm to $2mm in annual revenue and with up to 125 employees.
After serving as a marketing and admissions officer at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont, I joined the Peace Corps and established a successful tailoring business with deaf seamstresses in Tunisia. My formal executive career began when I was hired by PLAN International and spent seven years leading field operations in Haiti and Senegal. I was proud that, in Senegal, I built and mentored a successful local senior team that became the first lead a field post for PLAN in West Africa.
Back in the United States I served as the executive director for three organizations: The Millay Colony for the Arts (an artists' residency program); NIDCAP Federation (an international NICU certifying agency); and Save One Life, Inc. (an international child welfare agency).
During my nine years at Save One Life I more than tripled annual revenues and the number of program beneficiaries. I launched two major initiatives: a post-secondary scholarship program and a micro-enterprise grant program, and collaborated closely with more than 50 local bleeding disorder patient associations in 15 countries that partnered with us in this work.
As a consultant I supported a large range of clients, including international nonprofits, USAID and DOD contractors and US organizations largely in the education and health sectors, with strategic planning, workforce development, and organizational restructuring, A memorable assignment for a USAID-funded women's economic empowerment project in Afghanistan. I created the first coach training manual to be translated into Farsi, designed a curriculum, and delivered two week-long workshops to 50 Afghan community workers.
My education includes a BA in economics/urban studies from Wellesley College and an MSc in social anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. I received my coaching certification in 2008, established Mandala Leadership Coaching LLC in 2019, and earned my Professional Certified Coach accreditation from the International Coach Federation in 2022. I am certified in administering the WE-I Profile, a relationship intelligence tool, and PrinciplesYou, a highly reliable personality assessment. I have additional training in organization and relationship systems coaching, emotional intelligence, energy leadership, and cross-cultural competence.
My wonderful sons--Seth (l) and Timothy (r).
A Bit About Me Personally:
I am a mother of two now adult sons, Seth and Timothy, whom I raised solo from the start. After many years I remarried in 2009, and then nursed my mid-life husband through his brief journey and passing from pancreatic cancer in 2014. His dear mother became my responsibility at that point, and I navigated the demanding waters of eldercare until her passing in 2017. In 2019 I left my executive position, launched Mandala Leadership Coaching, and moved back to the countryside to become one of 725 lucky residents living and working in bucolic Leyden, MA!
I am devoted to life-long learning and passionate about personal and spiritual growth. I enjoy studying our wisdom traditions, culture, geography and history, and never get bored looking at maps! I care deeply about the safety and sovereignty of women and girls and support organizations engaged in this advocacy around the world. Here at home I am engaged in promoting democracy and civil freedoms at the state and federal levels, and serve on the Board of Registrars in my town. I’m an avid gardener and adore connecting with nature and the big sky above my home. Other enthusiasms include biking, hiking, kayaking and dancing until I drop!
