In 2020, as an executive HR leader, the devastating Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement had a substantial effect on my mental health, physical well-being and social engagement that completely redirected the trajectory of my future. 

Feeling trapped in a vicious cycle of being overworked, anxious, and stressed, burnout became my daily reality.  It reflected in my work, attitude, marriage and even parenting my two beautiful daughters. I felt helpless, but knew I was not alone. To my knowledge, there was no roadmap available to help navigate these feelings and make meaningful steps to improve my health, regain my quality of life and revitalize my leadership legacy. Too afraid to say anything for fear of judgement, I lived with critical burnout in silence for 3 years. Truth be told, I didn’t even recognize myself.

So in 2023, when my corporate role was eliminated, it was bitter sweet. Over time, I began to accept this defining moment as a precious gift from the universe. I knew my calling was to inspire real change for leadership culture all over the world. Embracing my entrepreneurial spirit, I founded Culture Bonds, LLC consulting small to medium sized organizations to build healthy team cultures that can scale and thrive.

Foundationally, I believe that extraordinary leaders are fostered and grown from within the organization. Great leaders can become ineffective in a toxic work culture and bad leaders “untamed” or tolerated at a cost. Overall, turnover, burnout and performance challenges are just the symptoms to a deeper-rooted disorder manifested through an unstable business environment.  

In addition to consulting, my personal mission as a speaker and coach is to partner with female leaders experiencing the challenges of burnout and help her regain personal power that designs a life strategy to improve well-being, live with purpose, and an extraordinary leadership legacy reflecting the best version of herself.