MY PATH
My career began in athletics, where discipline, resilience, and preparation are visible every day. Those principles carried into work with systems and teams, and eventually into healthcare leadership, where decisions affect people, outcomes, and culture.
For over 15 years, I’ve led transformative change in healthcare, working alongside leaders and teams navigating complexity, ambiguity, and sustained demand.
In parallel, I work with athletes, from amateur to elite professionals, supporting mindset, focus, and performance in competitive environments.
Sport remains a proving ground for this work. The demands are immediate, the feedback is honest, and presence matters. Whether preparing for competition or navigating pressure across a season, the same principles apply: awareness, regulation, and disciplined preparation.
Along the way, I learned that technical skill alone isn’t enough. Presence, clarity, and disciplined reflection are what determine how people perform, individually and within systems.
Mentorship and study have shaped how I think and work:
- Learning from Toyota leaders and Lean practitioners about disciplined improvement
- Studying mindfulness and meditation practices for awareness and regulation
- Being guided by performance coach George Mumford, whose work brought mindfulness into elite sport contexts
- Training and applying breathwork practices to support nervous system regulation, recovery, and performance under pressure
These influences are not checkboxes. They inform how I approach growth, performance, and human systems every day.
This is the foundation of Headwaters to Change!
HOW I WORK
Performance isn’t accidental. It’s built through clarity, presence, and disciplined practice.
My work is guided by a simple performance compass, not as a model to memorize, but as a way to stay oriented when pressure, complexity, or uncertainty show up.
MINDFULNESS — PRESENCE & AWARENESS
Mindfulness trains awareness, attention, and presence.
It helps people notice patterns, regulate reactions, and stay engaged with what’s actually happening, not what they assume or fear. This is essential for leaders, clinicians, and athletes operating in high-pressure environments.
Mindfulness isn’t about being calm. It’s about being clear.
KAIZEN — DISCIPLINED IMPROVEMENT
Kaizen provides a practical way to learn from problems.
Instead of blame or overwhelm, the focus is on small, intentional improvement, daily reflection, experimentation, and adjustment. Progress is built one deliberate step at a time.
EMBRACE THE PROCESS — CONSISTENCY UNDER PRESSURE
Performance is shaped by what’s practiced consistently.
This work emphasizes process over outcomes, building routines, habits, and reflection that hold up over time. Whether in healthcare, leadership, or sport, consistency creates trust and confidence.
We don’t chase peak moments.
We train for presence and flow.
