Meet Valerie

My leadership and life coaching practice supports individuals, as well as leaders and managers, to make and sustain transformational change.

Mindfulness, mental fitness practices based in brain science, and helping clients build sustainable self care routines, are integral to my coaching. Clients build confidence, and re-connect to purpose and meaning.

Expertise includes leadership development, team management, confidence building, work/life balance, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and effective communication across differences.

My work is deeply informed by a multifaceted career as a communications professional, author, wellness entrepreneur (co-founded a pioneering postpartum doula care service)—and by a public health career directing programs focused on community wellbeing and health equity.

My exposure to health disparities and the social determinants of health in the public health sector, started me on a path of understanding my racial identity, and propelled me to work with people who look like me as a DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging) coach for leaders, as a consultant to organizations, and as an advocate for justice and healing. I am grateful to colleagues of color who generously guide me in this work.