About Me

My career began in the classroom, teaching English in France, then French at high schools and universities across New York and Southern California. What I learned there has shaped everything I’ve built since: the best learning happens when people feel connected, supported, and given real room to practice.

A New Path

After years in education, I moved into corporate L&D and found the same problem waiting. Organizations were hiring great people and leaving them to figure it out. Onboarding was an afterthought, paperwork and a few shadowing shifts with a hope that things would click. The cost showed up months later in attrition, slow ramp times, and frustrated managers.

That gap became my focus. At a medical device company, I designed and built the organization-wide onboarding program from the ground up, a cohort-based, six-month structured journey for a 3,000-person company. Over two years, I facilitated onboarding for 450+ employees, and the model was directly credited by leadership with improving 90-day retention and reducing early attrition.

At a life insurance company, I brought that model and made it bigger. I built the Operations onboarding program from scratch, established a company-wide Welcome Week, and designed eight role-specific onboarding programs across two lines of business, each running as a cohort experience twice a month. New hire time to proficiency dropped by more than 50%.

How I work

I’m equally comfortable setting strategy with senior leaders and sitting with a subject matter expert to map out a workflow. I don’t hand off. I build end-to-end, from needs analysis through launch, measurement, and continuous improvement.

I’m also deeply interested in where L&D is headed. I co-developed one of my organization’s first AI literacy curricula and use Microsoft Copilot to streamline content workflows. The tools are changing fast. The fundamentals of good learning design aren’t.

Outside of work

I’m a wife, a mom, a chauffeur, and a birthday party planner, usually all at once. I’m fluent in French, which is a daily reminder that I’ll always be a language learner at heart. I live in Southern California, and when I’m not thinking about learning architecture, I’m usually thinking about what’s next for my kids.