I’m a sociologist by training and an organizational researcher, facilitator, and program designer.

Over the past fifteen years, I have worked with universities, research institutes, healthcare organizations, professional colleges, non-profits, and community organizations. The projects have ranged from curriculum reviews and stakeholder consultations to focus groups, needs assessments, program evaluations, strategic planning, and organizational diagnostics.

What connects this work is an interest in how people experience organizations and what leaders can learn by listening more carefully.

My Background

My training is in qualitative research. I learned how to conduct interviews, facilitate focus groups, analyze what people say, and look for patterns and insights across different perspectives.

My doctoral research explored how people maintain a sense of stability when the world around them is changing. That question has stayed with me, although I now ask it inside organizations. What helps people adapt when their work is changing? What causes apparently sensible initiatives to falter? What gets lost between what leaders intend to happen and what people actually experience? What do leaders need to understand before deciding how to respond?

Over the years, I have applied that way of thinking to questions involving organizational change, professional development, career programming, stakeholder engagement, and program design.

What I Bring to the Work

Research is only useful if it helps someone make a better decision. My role is to gather evidence, understand how different groups are experiencing the situation, and identify the themes that matter most.

That sometimes means finding broad agreement. It can also mean identifying tensions, competing expectations, or experiences that have not been visible in formal meetings. I bring these perspectives together without flattening the differences between them.

The result might be a diagnostic report, a needs assessment, a new program, a facilitated conversation, or a set of practical recommendations.

How I Work

I begin by understanding the organization’s context, what has already been tried, and the decision that needs to be made. From there, we agree on the questions, the people who should be involved, and the most appropriate way to gather information.

Throughout the project, I will keep you informed about what I am hearing, where patterns are emerging, and where different perspectives converge or diverge. You should not have to wait until the final report to understand where the work is leading.

The final deliverable will depend on the project, but the objective is always the same: to give you a clearer understanding of the situation and something practical you can use.