I learned to trust my signal the hard way.
CPCC, ACC · Kellogg MBA · 25 Years Fortune 100 · Founder, Platypus Coaching
"Shut up and color."
In a meeting at USAA, I offered a thoughtful dissent. A senior male executive looked at me and said exactly that.
I knew what the safe choice was. Stay quiet. Keep the peace. Color inside the lines.
I spoke anyway.
It cost me something. But it taught me the most important thing I know about leadership: your instincts are data. And silencing them — to make the room comfortable — is the most expensive thing you can do.
That moment became the foundation of everything I do now.
25 years inside the room. Now I help others own it.
I spent 25 years as a leader inside Fortune 100 companies — from USAA to Meta — watching how power actually moves. Who gets heard. Who gets talked over. Who shrinks to survive and who learns to stand.
I'm a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and Associate Certified Coach (ACC). Kellogg MBA. B.A. in Psychology, Northwestern University.
I coach the whole person. Career, family, identity — not just the part that shows up on a performance review.
I hold your interests above the company's. Always. That's not something corporate coaching can promise.
Your instincts are data. My job is to help you hear them clearly — and act on them.
The platypus adapts to any environment and glows from within. That's the whole philosophy right there.
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