Finding Clarity
I've spent my life learning how to take complex, overwhelming things and make them manageable. I find clarity and see the patterns in noise and chaos regardless of what it is. When you're stuck and don't know why, I ask questions that help you see what you're missing - the patterns in your thinking, the clarity beneath the confusion. And I love building things that help bring order to chaos and that make complex information more understandable and accessible - whether that's a new system or helping you understand yourself.
Here's what that looks like:
Course Development & Learning Design: I've been writing courses since my academic days—linguistics, ESL, color theory, art critique, public speaking, happiness. Currently, I develop systems for helping people learn, build and use complex technology.
Community Development: I work with content creators to build online communities where members can share ideas, get support, and connect. These communities include multiple layers of engagement, monthly challenges, mini courses, and fully developed onboarding systems.
Facilitation: I work with women looking to find clarity in their lives amid personal struggles using art as a tool. I reflect on their art with them, so they can find a deeper connection with themselves and cut through the noise.
Writing: I write deeply personal poetry about surviving, living with, and healing from trauma. If anything, this is most illustrative of my ability to find clarity in chaos. I've also written a daily blog about country life and beekeeping (8 years), and spent a year writing weekly personal essays on mindset.
The Foundation: PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University (1992), specialty in conversation analysis. Taught at IU until 2013. I've also taught color theory to help artists not be overwhelmed by color in their work.
What I do
Sit Down & Talk
I spend time with business people helping them think through places where they feel stuck. No pressure. No fixing. Just clarity.
Communities
Change happens when people can talk to each other, share ideas, support each other and collaborate. I build online communities with a structure that is easy to manage and easy to use, even for tech shy members.
Course Development
You’ve got content. You need it in format that people can easily get to and that you can profit from. I build courses and get them on a platform where you can easily sell and manage them.
Artwork