I’ve spent my career in Silicon Valley startups building HR departments, hiring teams and nudging cultures for small and medium-sized companies across diverse industries. In each organization I’ve joined, I’ve generally taken an open approach to performance management: giving preference to what an organization was already doing over what I thought would work best. Last year I decided to give myself the time to reflect, study and test whether I could take everything I’ve seen not work and come up with a better way to manage professional improvement for individuals, teams and entire organizations. Zone 2 People is the result of this challenge. I look forward to talking with you more about it!

What else is there to know about me? I live and work in Berkeley, CA. I’m a graduate of Santa Clara University and of UC Berkeley’s Executive Coaching Institute. I’m a long-time member of PeopleTech Partners helping startups in the HR & Talent space. I love speaking in public and do it any chance I get. I’m an endurance athlete and I love the challenge of pushing the limits of what I think is possible; helping someone else find out what is possible is the only thing I like more.