Member since January 2025
I’m an executive and professional development coach who speaks on leadership development, career transitions, and navigating change at work. With a background as a public-interest attorney, I bring a structured, human-centered approach to conversations about leadership, growth, and decision-making.
I work with leaders, teams, and individuals across sectors, with a particular focus on mission-driven organizations and education. My talks blend reflection with practical frameworks, helping audiences clarify what matters, build confidence, and take more intentional next steps in their careers and leadership roles.
I’m most energized by conversations that help people make sense of moments of transition. I care deeply about helping leaders and professionals slow down long enough to reflect, especially when they’re facing change, burnout, or uncertainty about what comes next.
I’m passionate about leadership development that feels honest and humane, not performative. Topics like career transitions, strengths, boundaries, and sustainable leadership consistently light me up because they’re rooted in lived experience and invite real conversation.
Early in my career, I followed a path that looked successful from the outside. I was doing meaningful public-interest legal work, yet I noticed a growing disconnect between my role and how I wanted to contribute. I assumed clarity would come if I just kept pushing forward.
What I eventually learned is that insight doesn’t arrive through effort alone. It comes from creating space to reflect, naming what no longer fits, and giving yourself permission to imagine something different. That realization led me to pivot my career and reshaped how I think about leadership and growth.
I share this story on stage because it mirrors what so many leaders experience. People don’t need to be fixed. They need language, perspective, and support to move forward with intention.
My path to coaching grew out of my own experience navigating a successful but increasingly misaligned career. I began my professional life as a public-interest attorney, drawn to meaningful work and impact. Over time, I noticed that many of the people around me, including myself, were capable, committed, and outwardly successful, yet quietly questioning their direction, energy, or fit.
The turning point came when I realized that most people don’t struggle because they lack ability or motivation. They struggle because they don’t have space to reflect, language to name what’s changing, or support to make intentional decisions in the midst of complexity. Insight alone wasn’t enough. Structure and partnership mattered.
That realization led me to build a coaching practice focused on leadership development and career transitions. Today, I work with individuals, teams, and organizations who are navigating growth, change, or increased responsibility, helping them clarify what matters, strengthen how they lead, and move forward with intention.
Meaningful connection doesn’t happen by accident. It’s shaped by how people prepare for conversations, especially when stakes feel high, relationships matter, or networking feels loaded with pressure.
In this talk, Erica explores what gets in the way of genuine connection and what helps people show up more intentionally in conversations related to leadership, collaboration, and relationship-building. Rather than focusing on scripts or tactics, she invites reflection on presence, readiness, and how to approach networking as a human exchange rather than a performance.
This talk resonates with leaders, teams, and professionals who want conversations, including networking conversations, to lead to trust, understanding, and forward movement.
Change often reshapes relationships before it reshapes results. As roles shift and expectations evolve, leaders are asked to hold uncertainty while maintaining trust and connection across teams.
In this talk, Erica explores how leaders navigate change while tending to the relational dynamics that make leadership effective. She shares common patterns that show up during transitions and invites reflection on how presence, perspective, and pacing support trust-building, alignment, and steady leadership over time.
This talk is designed for leaders who want to lead change in a way that strengthens relationships rather than strains them.
Hiring conversations are often approached as performances or transactions. This talk reframes them as decision points that shape not just the next role, but how someone wants to work and grow.
Erica explores how people prepare for interviews with greater steadiness, communicate their experience without over-performing, and navigate offer discussions beyond compensation alone. Rather than focusing on scripts or tactics, the emphasis is on judgment, preparation, and making thoughtful choices at moments that matter.
This talk is designed for professionals navigating interviews, negotiations, or upcoming career transitions.
A practical career clarity book for professionals seeking meaningful direction, stronger leadership confidence, and thoughtful next steps
Buy Now
A podcast featuring candid conversations with entrepreneurs, creatives, and purpose-driven people about taking risks, leaning into their strengths, adapting through change, and building lives and work that reflect what matters most.
Listen NowEarly in my career, I followed a path that looked successful from the outside. I was doing meaningful public-interest legal work, yet I noticed a growing disconnect between my role and how I wanted to contribute. I assumed clarity would come if I just kept pushing forward.
What I eventually learned is that insight doesn’t arrive through effort alone. It comes from creating space to reflect, naming what no longer fits, and giving yourself permission to imagine something different. That realization led me to pivot my career and reshaped how I think about leadership and growth.
I share this story on stage because it mirrors what so many leaders experience. People don’t need to be fixed. They need language, perspective, and support to move forward with intention.
My path to coaching grew out of my own experience navigating a successful but increasingly misaligned career. I began my professional life as a public-interest attorney, drawn to meaningful work and impact. Over time, I noticed that many of the people around me, including myself, were capable, committed, and outwardly successful, yet quietly questioning their direction, energy, or fit.
The turning point came when I realized that most people don’t struggle because they lack ability or motivation. They struggle because they don’t have space to reflect, language to name what’s changing, or support to make intentional decisions in the midst of complexity. Insight alone wasn’t enough. Structure and partnership mattered.
That realization led me to build a coaching practice focused on leadership development and career transitions. Today, I work with individuals, teams, and organizations who are navigating growth, change, or increased responsibility, helping them clarify what matters, strengthen how they lead, and move forward with intention.
Meaningful connection doesn’t happen by accident. It’s shaped by how people prepare for conversations, especially when stakes feel high, relationships matter, or networking feels loaded with pressure.
In this talk, Erica explores what gets in the way of genuine connection and what helps people show up more intentionally in conversations related to leadership, collaboration, and relationship-building. Rather than focusing on scripts or tactics, she invites reflection on presence, readiness, and how to approach networking as a human exchange rather than a performance.
This talk resonates with leaders, teams, and professionals who want conversations, including networking conversations, to lead to trust, understanding, and forward movement.
Change often reshapes relationships before it reshapes results. As roles shift and expectations evolve, leaders are asked to hold uncertainty while maintaining trust and connection across teams.
In this talk, Erica explores how leaders navigate change while tending to the relational dynamics that make leadership effective. She shares common patterns that show up during transitions and invites reflection on how presence, perspective, and pacing support trust-building, alignment, and steady leadership over time.
This talk is designed for leaders who want to lead change in a way that strengthens relationships rather than strains them.
Hiring conversations are often approached as performances or transactions. This talk reframes them as decision points that shape not just the next role, but how someone wants to work and grow.
Erica explores how people prepare for interviews with greater steadiness, communicate their experience without over-performing, and navigate offer discussions beyond compensation alone. Rather than focusing on scripts or tactics, the emphasis is on judgment, preparation, and making thoughtful choices at moments that matter.
This talk is designed for professionals navigating interviews, negotiations, or upcoming career transitions.