A UNIQUE BACKGROUND COMBINING BUSINESS, EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY

i have more than 20 years of experience in marketing and sales in telecommunications, software, manufacturing and advertising. My career is a non-linear, unconventional series of transitions that nevertheless build one upon the other. I have two masters degrees in psychology- educational and counseling. 

Following my initial 9-year career as a teacher, I began her business career in sales as an account executive at MCI Telecommunications. My performance in sales earned  the #1 sales ranking nationally, and a promotion to sales manager of a team of 40 sales reps.  I was then recruited to run national account customer education, educating large corporate customers (the largest contract: IBM) about the rapidly changing telecom market.

I entered marketing as a public relations manager, organizing a management symposium after the acquisition of Western Uniton International, and went on to manage value-added reseller marketing for MCI Mail, the world's first public electronic mail service, working with Vint Cerf, a father of the Internet. I went on to become Director of Sales Development, responsible for national sales training.  

With my experience in corporate marketing, I launched my own management consulting business where I earned long term contracts with AT&T Canada for channel marketing and Xerox Corporation as a sales productivity coach. 

After years in management consulting, I was recruited by Hill Holliday Advertising in New York City to join the B2B brand marketing team as Senior Vice President.  After 9/11 in NYC, I became the head of human resources for the ad agency, responsible for all hiring, on-boarding, and productivity coaching. The experience of counseling employees through the trauma of 9/11, recommitted me to pursuing my career as a counselor. After pursuing additional education and credentialing as a psychoanalyst, I launched an independent coaching practice in 2004 and a mental health counseling practice in 2008.

Today, I runs a successful coaching, career development, and psychotherapy practice where I use my experience as an educator, marketer, manager and psychotherapist to help people thrive through work and life transitions. 

In 2008 I won a National Gradiva Award for my paper, "Career Dysphoria and the Working Wounded."  

In 2022, I presented "Mutual Vulnerability and Transformation" at the Intl Assn of Psychoanalytic Self Psychologists. 

In 2025, my poem and painting, "Through The Fog" was published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry.