I am dedicated to empowering aid actors—individuals, teams and organizations—to unlock fresh ways of seeing and responding to the core challenges and persistent problems faced by those looking to grow, evolve and make a greater impact in the world.
I bring +20 years of experience as an international development and peacebuilding professional who has worked for the UN, USAID, USIP as well as several international NGOs and private contractors implementing foreign assistance programming. Extensive peacebuilding experience in countries struggling with conflict—including Nigeria, Yemen, South Sudan, Burundi, and the Congo—provides me with a distinct vantage on the evolving nature of aid and peace practices and the emerging emphasis on collaborating, adapting and learning. It further provides me with practical, transformative insights into the core challenges and persistent problems leaders face when looking to evolve their ways of working in order to make a greater impact.
I work to support iterative learning and capacity strengthening through training design and delivery; process facilitation and coaching. I leverage a solid understanding of the aid field as well as deep knowledge of technical approaches to aid practices and how these intersect with learning agendas and capacity gaps within the aid sector writ large. I weave decades of fascination and interest in human sense making, explored as qualitative researcher, systems thinker and global (cross-cultural) professional, peacebuilding practitioner and Growth Edge coach to help uncover limiting assumptions and unconscious bias that can unlock new ways of thinking, being and acting. My understanding of how complex problems behave informs my ability to empower inquiry that can produce adaptive action and innovation.
I also work to improve the effectiveness and accountability of programs through applied research, drawing on robust knowledge of the reflective traditions of participatory and action research approaches to qualitative data collection, analysis and learning.