The candor you've been waiting for, the credentials to back it up.
Two decades inside corporate. More than a decade leading sales and operations teams. An ICF-certified executive coach who will tell you the truth your last manager was too polite to say. This is the story of how I got here — and why I do this work.
PCC
ICF-Certified Coach
PMP
Project Mgmt Professional
16+ yrs
Global Consultancy
Author
2026
I was twenty-five, on my first big consulting project, flying into Toronto every week. I'd land, find a seat near the rental car desk, and wait — usually for four hours — until my manager arrived so we could drive to the client site together. When he showed, he'd take the keys and spend the hour-long drive on the phone in a language I didn't speak. I didn't say a word. Not at the desk. Not in the car. Not for months.
When I finally moved onto a new project — for a different leader, a woman — I told her the story almost as a joke. She didn't laugh. She looked at me and asked, "Why didn't you say something?" And the truth came out before I could dress it up: I didn't know I was allowed to.
That was the moment I understood what most career advice gets wrong. It tells you to be confident, speak up, set boundaries — as if those are settings you toggle on. They aren't. They're skills you build, usually because someone with more reps showed you it was possible. I had the competence. I did not have the language, the framework, or the permission. One woman, in one conversation, gave me all three.
"I see too many smart, capable people sitting at their own version of the rental car desk — waiting, accommodating, not knowing they have any other option."
So I built the career I wasn't sure I was allowed to have.
Over the next fifteen years I worked inside a leading global consultancy and spent more than a decade leading sales and operations teams. I earned a reputation as the person who could walk into chaos and bring clarity — the right hand to senior leaders, useful in the prep, and eventually impossible to leave out of the room. I picked up the credentials too: an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). The credentials matter. But the real education came from the rooms I was in.
Here's the part nobody tells you.
A few years ago — decades into my career, not at twenty-five — I sat in a weekly leadership meeting where everyone at the table was a managing director with their own P&L. Everyone except me. But I ran the function we were there to discuss. The data was mine. The recommendations were mine. And I still spent months talking myself into asking to be in that room, because some part of me was waiting for permission that was never going to come.
I asked anyway. That's the whole secret: the discomfort doesn't disappear with seniority. You just learn to move through it instead of waiting for it to pass.
I got the seat — first "temporarily," then for good. Now I'm on the team that builds the agenda. No one was ever going to offer me that. I had to ask — uncomfortably, repeatedly, with every instinct telling me to sit back down.
That's why Glow Up Already exists.
I coach the professionals I used to be: smart, capable, underestimated, and tired of waiting for someone to notice. My clients have walked away with promotions, raises, new leadership roles — and something harder to put on a résumé: the ability to move through their career with intention instead of anxiety. I bring the candor of someone who has made the mistakes and the credentials of someone who has done the work. No cookie-cutter programs. No vague "just be confident." Just real language, real strategy, and the truth, delivered with respect.
I'm based in Wexford, Pennsylvania, and I work with clients everywhere. If you've ever felt like the most qualified person in the room and still not the one getting the opportunity — you're exactly who I do this for.
The Book
If You Have to Ask If It's Appropriate… It's Not.
My book — And Other Career-Saving Truths — is the mentor I needed at twenty-five, in 37 chapters. It's the survival manual for bold professionals who are done being talked over, overlooked, or praised for "being a team player" while everyone else coasts by. Scripts for the messages you don't know how to send. Language for the boundaries you don't know how to hold. The real rules that were never in the HR handbook. Smart, spicy, and immediately usable.
How I Work
Real talk, backed by real expertise.
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Candor over comfort
I'll tell you what your mentor is too polite to say. A few hours of being uncomfortable beats twenty years of figuring it out alone.
02
Strategy over platitudes
"Just be confident" is useless advice. You get frameworks, scripts, and a concrete next move you can act on immediately.
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Built around you
No two careers are the same, so no two engagements are. Everything is tailored to where you are and what's actually in your way.
Ready to stop waiting for permission?
Book a discovery call and let's talk about what's actually getting in your way.