As I began my first year at Harvard in 1983 the playwright Arthur Miller gave me some great advice: “Ask yourself what you really feel and think about whatever is important to you, rather than what others have taught you to feel and think. This could take you a lifetime, so good luck.” The actress Katharine Hepburn echoed that sentiment a decade later when she told me: “I think we must do what our secret voice tells us to do.”

My undergraduate years were when I began in earnest to cultivate and fully express my own voice: expanding on the solid foundation of what my amazing mother and father had taught me… to identify, prioritize, and make choices with new intentionality about the elite set of passions and pursuits that I increasingly called my own.

During my undergraduate years at Harvard and since then, I’ve sought out and been lucky to have mentors, coaches, contributors who have helped me shape my path as an individual, an entrepreneur, and parent.  I joined the Lowell House SCR in 2021 (as we all started to emerge from COVID), to gratefully and further ‘pay it forward’ and serve to the best of my ability the next generations within this great community of ours.

As part of the SCR I am available to ideate as the occasional coach on:

• Navigating life’s challenges
• Stack ranking options and opportunities and navigating complexities
• Ideating on possible career trajectories
• Networking and putting yourself ‘out there’ (”Keep the channel open” as Martha Graham said) to cultivate and best communicate your authentic voice and the unique value that you bring to the party.

My credentials/context:

I’m an enterprise sales and strategic partnership executive committed to leveraging great technologies to deliver high-impact economic and social value. I am passionate about building bridges and forming connections between technologies/services and the populations that can use them to create community, social, and economic value for multiple constituencies.

My customer-centric experience has extended across a wide range of business environments in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC and has required a combination of quick learning, immediate results, and evidence-driven flexibility, with experience in Software, Technology Services, Telecom, CPG/Retail, Hospitality, Financial Services, and Government/Non-Profit.

I have expertise initiating, managing, and expanding complex engagements with enterprises that include:
SAAS - Oracle, IBM, ServiceNow, Cockroach Labs, Gainsight, Skillsoft
Dev Ops - BRYTER, Digital Asset
Cyber Defense - BlueVoyant, Illusive Networks
GovTech / EdTech / Advisory - Mark43, Top Hat, Accenture
Government - The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
CPG / Retail / Retail Tech - Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola; Amazon, CVS, Dollar General; Toast
Hospitality - Hilton, Marriott, Starwood
Financial Services - Fidelity, BNY Mellon, American Express
Telecom - ATT, Bell Canada, Vodafone