Wilderness Educator. Coach. Companion in Uncertainty.
HOW I GOT HERE.
When I think of my life, I picture an off-trail traveler. Curious, steady, and quietly rebellious. My rebellion wasn’t loud. It was small, methodical acts of exploring the edges of what I’d been told was possible.
Growing up in suburban Nebraska, I could never have imagined a future of teaching leadership in remote wilderness spaces across Wyoming, Alaska, and Utah. But even then, I carried a deep sense of curiosity and care. The same qualities that shape my work today.
I followed those instincts to Washington, DC, where I supported human-rights leaders at Amnesty International. In India, I studied rural development and was changed by the generosity and belonging I found there. Back home in Nebraska, I helped university students orient toward meaningful, values-based careers.
Eventually, the wilderness called.
And that’s where everything clicked.
As a senior instructor and trainer with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), I guide people through unpredictable terrain — beginners, professionals, educators, and leaders. My job has always been the same: help people find their footing when the trail disappears, and help them discover the capacity they didn’t know they had.
Looking back, my story makes perfect sense.
Living it felt gloriously messy.
That messiness — the truth of it, the humanity of it — is what led me to coaching.
EXPERIENCES THAT SHAPE MY COACHING
My coaching style is shaped by years of lived experience, deep study, and my own growth work:
Wilderness & Outdoor Education
Decades of teaching leadership, judgment, risk management, emotional regulation, and group dynamics in uncertain environments. The wilderness taught me presence, humility, listening, and the art of taking the next right step.
Integral Coaching Training
I’m trained through Integral Coaching Canada, which involves three certification modules comprised of rigorous study, practice, supervision, and developmental design. This training gives me a whole-human, deeply attuned way of supporting clients.
Meditation & Retreat Practice
Insight Meditation and silent retreat have taught me how to be with what is. To meet reality without pushing it away or gripping for something else. This practice of noticing craving and aversion, and returning to presence again and again, shapes the grounded, compassionate way I sit with clients.
Natural Horsemanship & Working With Horses
Horses have been some of my greatest teachers. Through natural horsemanship, I’ve learned emotional regulation, timing, attunement, clear boundaries, and the power of leading without force.
Horses respond to who we are, not who we perform to be. They’ve taught me to slow down, listen beneath the surface, and communicate with clarity and kindness. Lessons that shape the way I coach and support each client.
Personal & Professional Expeditions
From month-long backcountry trips to weeks-long horsepacking work, I’ve learned how people unravel, recalibrate, soften, and find themselves again. The wilderness is a living classroom for human development.
Healing Through Coaching
I’ve worked with coaches who helped me see myself clearly, build inner steadiness, heal old patterns, and trust my own way of being. I don’t coach because I’ve reached some perfect summit. I coach because I’ve walked this terrain myself, and I believe in the transformation it brings.
WHO I AM (ACCORDING TO OTHERS)
People describe me as:
A warm, engaged, present listener
Validating, supportive, nonjudgmental
Lighthearted and quick to laugh
A curious explorer and constant learner
Humble about what I know, honest about what I don’t
They’re the qualities that have carried me through years of guiding people through both external wilderness and inner wilderness.
WHY I DO THIS WORK
I’m not a coach because I’ve found the answers.
I’m a coach because I love the search —
and I love searching as a team.
I believe you’re not broken.
You’re in a season of becoming.
And you deserve support that’s grounded, attuned, and genuinely human.
If you’re navigating uncertainty or something new is emerging in you, I’d be honored to walk with you.
WHERE AM I NOW?
I live in Lander, Wyoming, in the foothills of the Wind River Range, on the unceded land of the Eastern Shoshone, Crow, and Cheyenne people. My community here is full of educators, adventurers, and mentors who push me and support me in equal measure. Friendship is a huge part of my life. Many of my deepest learnings happen while adventuring, wandering, and laughing with friends outside.
My pup, Mesa, keeps me company on long rambles through the sagebrush. Horses continue to teach me softness, timing, and emotional clarity. Meditation helps me return, again and again, to what’s here now.
This is where I work, wander, and where I keep learning how to listen deeply: to the land, to myself, and to the people I walk with.
Coaching Certification
Certified Integral Professional Coach with Integral Coaching Canada
What People Are Saying
