I've spent my career helping leaders navigate what comes next.
From startups to Fortune 10 companies, I work with CEOs, founders, executive teams, and boards navigating growth, transformation, and consequential decisions. I bring the perspective of someone who has built and led an organization, not just advised one.
I understand the realities of leading.
Leadership is exhilarating, demanding, and rarely straightforward. I know what it means to make consequential decisions with incomplete information, build high-performing teams, manage stakeholders, work with a board, and preserve culture as an organization evolves.
As the founder and CEO of BUILD, I spent 19 years scaling an idea into a national organization with more than 100 employees. I was accountable for strategy, operations, fundraising, talent, board relationships, and results. That experience gives me firsthand insight into the opportunities and pressures facing leaders as their organizations grow.
Building BUILD taught me how to move from vision to execution, attract and develop exceptional people, navigate change, and make difficult tradeoffs. Those lessons inform my work with corporate leaders every day.
I believe great leadership demands both business discipline and human insight: sharp strategy, strong execution, sound judgment, trust, and the willingness to have the conversations others avoid.
Leadership is both profoundly human and deeply practical.
Today, through Mayacamas Partners, I advise and coach leaders across the business landscape, from entrepreneurial startups to Fortune 10 enterprises. I work with senior executives navigating scale, strategic inflection points, organizational complexity, and leadership transitions.
My work combines one-on-one executive coaching, high-impact leadership offsites, and strategic advisory. One day I may be a confidential sounding board to a CEO facing a high-stakes decision. Another, I may be facilitating an executive team through alignment on strategy, accountability, decision-making, and how they work together.
My background teaching at Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, together with years facilitating YPO forums and leadership teams, has shaped an approach that is rigorous, interactive, and highly practical. The goal is not just insight, but decisions and behaviors that translate into real progress.
I bring warmth and candor in equal measure. I ask challenging questions, connect dots quickly, and offer straightforward feedback. I care about my clients as people, and I care deeply about their effectiveness and results.
Clarity for complex decisions. Connection that moves teams forward.
Whether I am coaching a CEO, designing an executive offsite, or helping a founder work through a consequential choice, my aim is to make progress tangible: clearer priorities, stronger relationships, better decisions, and the confidence to act.
I listen carefully, connect dots, challenge assumptions, and tell the truth with kindness. I believe the most useful work is both deeply personal and relentlessly practical.
The best outcome is not simply a great conversation. It is a leader or team that leaves knowing what matters, what needs to change, and what to do next.
The whole person matters.
I am a wife, mother, sister, and daughter, and those relationships shape how I understand leadership, connection, and the many roles we navigate in our lives. They remind me that even the most accomplished leaders are people first, with responsibilities, aspirations, and lives well beyond their titles.
I bring that perspective into every coaching conversation and retreat. I care about what people achieve, but also about who they are becoming along the way.
YPO Forums, thoughtfully facilitated.
As a YPO member for 10 years, I understand what makes Forum relationships meaningful, and what it takes to keep a group growing together. I design and facilitate experiences ranging from powerful individual meetings to bespoke, multi-day retreats, always shaped around the needs of the Forum.
Perspective across sectors and scale
A combination of hands-on executive leadership, corporate advisory work, and facilitation experience.
- Executive coach and advisor to leaders from startups to Fortune 10 companies
- Founder and former CEO, BUILD
- Founder, Mayacamas Partners
- Lecturer, Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School
- Skadden Fellow; Stanford Law Review member
- Ashoka Fellow; Jefferson Award recipient
- YPO member and forum facilitator
- Brown University and Stanford Law School, JD
A longer professional history is available on LinkedIn profile.
“The best leadership conversations don't start with having all the answers. They start with the willingness to ask better questions.”