Coaching and facilitation have always been a common thread throughout my life. As a former safety officer and emergency manager, I spent 10 years working in change management, taking organizations from where they were to where they wanted to be. 

After a series of personal losses and a near death experience, I began to re-evaluate the priorities in my own life. Needing time to grieve, to breathe, and to heal, I made the impulsive decision to walk the Camino de Santiago, an 800-kilometre pilgrimage across Spain. 

Camino helped me realize the life I’d been living was not the one I wanted for myself. I’d been following someone else’s script, written in childhood. Before I could move forward, I had to confront my past, tear down the negative mental models that held me back, and rebuild on a stronger foundation that was authentic to my values, aptitudes and interests. Facing my own childhood trauma with courage and acceptance not only changed my outlook on life, it spurred me to choose a path of service to those still struggling.