Born and raised in Tennessee, my career quickly took three parallel directions: business (MBA and strategy consulting), psychology (another Master's degree and a 2-year residency at a meditation center), and education (teaching everything from mindfulness to test-prep to psychology at a college). These three paths have converged for the past 5+ years into professional leadership development, beginning with my time at McKinsey, and leading to hundreds of hours of coaching and advising. I've done everything from designing to delivering leadership programs, to every level from individual contributor to C-suite, for 1 person up to 3,000.