About Kemp Street Partners

When I built and led the professional development function at a global executive search firm, I had the privilege of working closely with hundreds of leaders at moments of genuine transition — new roles, new challenges, new expectations of themselves. What I observed then, and what I have continued to observe in my own practice since founding Kemp Street Partners in 2015, has shaped everything about how I work.

The gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it is rarely about capability. It is almost always about something more internal; the stories leaders tell themselves about who they are, what they are allowed to do, and what others expect of them. That insight sits at the heart of everything I do.

What I bring to every engagement is a genuine commitment to the science. I trained as a mathematician before I became a coach, and that instinct — to look for the evidence, to understand the mechanism, not just the outcome — has never left me. I have also led teams and held P&L responsibility, so I understand the pressures leaders are navigating from the inside, not just the outside. My coaching accreditation is from Columbia University. I am a certified practitioner of the Leadership Circle Profile, ESCI, and NBI. But credentials aside, what I am most interested in is whether the work actually lands: whether leaders walk away with something they can use the next day, not just insight they cannot quite translate.