About

My career has never followed a single lane, and that has become one of my greatest strengths.

I have worked across education, corporate operations, federal and technical environments, advanced manufacturing, and healthcare. While the industries have changed, the work I am drawn to has remained remarkably consistent: understanding complex organizations, developing people, and building the systems that help both perform better.

I am a learning and workforce development leader, strategist, and builder. I have rebuilt onboarding after major disruption, developed learning across multiple business capabilities, built enterprise learning infrastructure during rapid workforce expansion, architected leadership development strategies, managed budgets and vendor partnerships, and helped leaders turn organizational challenges into practical development solutions.

My leadership throughline is simple: I build learning systems that help people and organizations transform.

How I Think & Lead

I start with the business, not the training request.

Before deciding what to build, I want to understand what is happening in the organization. What are we trying to accomplish? Where is performance breaking down? What do employees need to do differently? What systems, processes, leadership behaviors, or capabilities are getting in the way?

From there, I bring together data, learning science, operational knowledge, technology, and the perspectives of the people closest to the work.

My approach follows a repeatable leadership discipline:

Understand → Architect → Build → Align → Scale → Measure & Evolve

I understand the challenge before prescribing the solution. I architect systems rather than isolated programs. I build with the people who will use and sustain them. I align leaders, SMEs, vendors, and operational partners around a shared outcome. I design for scale, and I use performance data to continuously improve what we have built.

The goal is not simply to launch training. The goal is to create capability that lasts.

What I Build

Some organizations need a program. Others need an entirely new learning infrastructure.

I have worked across that spectrum.

My experience includes building and transforming enterprise onboarding, leadership development, technical and professional skills programs, continuous learning systems, digital learning solutions, performance support, career development, and learning operations.

At Siemens, that meant architecting enterprise-wide new-hire learning during rapid expansion, integrating technical content across departments, supporting more than 600 new employees, and helping build a centralized Learning Center while managing budgets and vendor partnerships.

At Lantern, it has meant moving further upstream, architecting an integrated leadership development strategy across technical capability, professional skills, and leadership effectiveness while connecting learning more directly to operational performance and workforce readiness.

Different environments. Different challenges. The same leadership discipline.

What I Bring

I bring an unusual combination of experiences to the table.

Education taught me how people learn and how to develop capability. Science strengthened my curiosity and analytical thinking. My military and technical experiences taught me the importance of systems, precision, and readiness. Corporate and manufacturing environments taught me how learning connects to operations, productivity, technology, and scale. Healthcare continues to deepen my understanding of how quality, experience, performance, and people intersect.

That range allows me to enter unfamiliar environments, learn quickly, ask better questions, connect ideas across disciplines, and see possibilities that may not be obvious from inside a single function.

I am especially energized by the blank sheet of paper: a complex business challenge, multiple stakeholders, a team to develop, resources and budgets to manage, and an opportunity to build something that did not exist before.

Where I’m Going

I am continuing to grow toward enterprise leadership opportunities where learning, workforce strategy, technology, organizational development, and transformation intersect.

I am particularly interested in organizations navigating growth, technological change, workforce transformation, or the need to build new organizational capability at scale.

My interest in emerging technology and AI is part of that journey, not because technology replaces the human side of leadership, but because leaders increasingly need to understand how people, technology, and organizational systems work together.

Ultimately, I want my work to leave organizations stronger than I found them: stronger systems, stronger leaders, stronger teams, and people better prepared for what comes next.

Beyond the Work

Curiosity does not turn off when the workday ends.

I love discovering new places and new ideas. Some of my favorite moments are road trips with my family, hiking through national parks, getting absorbed in a book, or learning something completely outside my field simply because it caught my attention.

That curiosity is also part of how I lead. I have never been particularly interested in staying inside one box. I enjoy connecting ideas from different disciplines, asking why something works the way it does, and imagining how it could work better.

Whether I am exploring a trail, studying leadership and technology, designing a new program, or helping someone recognize what they are capable of becoming, growth has always been a recurring theme in my life.

For me, learning has never been only a profession. It is how I experience the world.

"I will not die an unlived life, I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise..." Dawna Markova