I have a passion for working with helping professionals, in all fields and contexts across many thousands of workshops, enhancing their abilities to help their clients make positive and sustained changes. Since 2006, I have been a member of the MINT and an independent consultant and trainer. I am a MINT Certified Trainer and I currently serve as a Director Emeritus from the MINT Board of Directors where I focus on professional skill development for MI practitioners and trainers. I served in lead or support roles for a number of TNTs, in 2025 and 2023 (Canada, Virtual), Warsaw (2019), New Orleans (2018), Berlin (2015), Atlanta (2014) and Fort Wayne (2012). I am a co-author of Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Practitioners- A Toolkit for Skills Enhancement (2021), co-developer of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) coding and coaching instrument and co-author of Advancing Skills in Motivational Interviewing (2026). I regularly provide MI coding and skill development coaching and provide consultation to systems and research projects for effective MI implementation. I spent my undergraduate years at Occidental College in Los Angeles and completed graduate studies in organizational behavior, organization design and work motivation at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University, as well as my J.D. at the Cornell University School of Law. I earned an Advanced Certificate from Cornell University’s ILR School in Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Strategies (IDEAS) and am a Cornell Certified Diversity Professional. In my spare time I write children's books and participate in marathon swimming events, raising funds for under-resourced kid’s charities.
