I am a coach, diversity professional, strategic business leader, and lawyer with significant experience in organizational development, strategic change management, and several talent management disciplines, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, recruitment, and professional development, and human resource management / EEO compliance, marketing and business development, anti-bias training, and life and leadership coaching.

Organizations frequently engage me as a presenter on talent management issues, including best practices in recruitment, interview skills, mentoring and sponsorship, performance management, client development, networking, leadership, and inclusion initiatives.

My multi-faceted educational and professional experience informs the services I provide in comprehensive career counseling, leadership development services, and coaching for professionals across industries and experience levels.

Representative coaching engagements for which I am typically retained include:

  • Career and business strategic planning

  • Aligning vocation with purpose

  • Addressing critical constructive feedback and behavioral barriers to advancement

  • Enhancing personal and professional branding

  • Navigating leadership as a professional of an historically underrepresented background

  • How to lead and manage teams inclusively

  • Cultivating effective mentoring and sponsorship relationships

Certifications

Accomplishment Coaching Certified Graduate of ICF-Accredited Coach Training Program (ACTP) for leadership coaching

Dare to Lead™ Trained to offer Daring Teams Rollout Program for Groups

Mind Gym Licensed Coach Merit Certification to deliver organizational development training program curriculum

Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) Senior Certified Professional

Biography

As a trained life and executive leadership coach, I have worked with clients for 12 years as founder of Career Prep Coaching Services LLC. I am also a Society for Human Resources Management Senior Certified Professional and provide consulting services on a broad range of corporate talent management and organizational development issues.

I joined D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. in 2021 as a managing director and Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and most recently served as their Head of Engagement Strategy and an internal Executive Coach before they became a client of my firm in 2026.

My prior roles include global head of diversity and inclusion at White & Case LLP, where I advised clients, global partners, and senior leaders across practice areas, business units, functions, and industry groups on embedding DEI in their business strategies and talent goals; director of diversity and inclusion at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP; and assistant dean for career development at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. I began my career as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP, where I advised executives, purchasers, targets, financial advisors, and management groups on labor and employment, compensation, and benefits issues in corporate policies, procedures, and transactions. 

I am Secretary and member of the board of directors and investment committee of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. I am the former president of the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals and a founding member of the board of advisors to the Leadership Institute of the Council of Urban Professionals for pipeline development in finance, media, and law. I am also a former member of the executive board of the New York Urban League, Hunter College Presidential Pre-Law Advisory Board, diversity committees of the New York City Bar Association, and diversity council of the Practising Law Institute. 

I received my J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and B.A. in English from Yale University.