My approach to leadership is rooted in deep empathy and active listening. When building teams, I focus on creating psychological safety and space for collaborative growth to achieve objections. I believe that clarity is kindness and offer direct, candid feedback while embodying graciousness and warmth in my interactions.

For any project or program to go from 0 - 1 requires a great deal of effort. To achieve repeatable outcomes, I’ve lead teams to create repeatable processes, rhythms, and decision making frameworks to replicate and scale outcomes. This allows our impact to go from 1 to 10!

I’ve learned early on that if we approach the work addressing only the surface level, we may have high outputs, but limited outcomes. During my time at MIT, I learned the importance of system dynamics as a mode of thinking. Whether its household heat pump adoption or entrepreneurship ecosystems, systems thinking is critical ti understand the optimal interventions to drive change.

Every industry has its own lingo or alphabet soup and often approach this work from different vantage points: climate wonks focused on decarbonization vs environmental justice advocates focused on clear air, small biz development, and economic well being. I work at these intersections and support in the cross-sector translation to move projects forward.

Doing this work takes resources and whether its investor, public, or philanthropic capital, ensuring that programs and projects are well-funded to drive systems change.