I have designed numerous programs to help professionals understand themselves and their cultures better, to genuinely display inclusive behaviors and to understand and respond respectfully to various cultural traditions, behaviors and values. I introduce best-practice from the private and public sectors of many territories ensuring clients receive leading-edge learning solutions.
My work also emphasizes the responsibility that professionals have to understand differences in order that they don’t negatively discriminate and that they treat people fairly or sensitively. My objective is to get the best out of people by understanding them as individuals, within the context of their different visible and non-visible identities and cultural contexts.
By nature, I am playful and creative. I also have a very low boredom threshold, which makes me extremely good at multi-tasking. I enjoy being executive producer of digital media projects, and designing dynamic learning events aimed at finding human-centric solutions to issues of justice and business ethics.
As an Adjunct Professor I have designed and taught courses at undergraduate level in Cross-Cultural Psychology in my home state of New Jersey, and at an MBA level in Data Analytics, Decision-making and Performance Management in Vermont, my newly adopted home state. In Vermont, appointed by Governor Phil Scott, I served on the VT COVID-19 Economic Mitigation and Recovery Taskforce. This taskforce is charged with providing technical assistance and expertise to mitigate the devastating short-term economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with developing strategies designed to speed long-term business and community recovery.
I hold a BA in Psychology and a PhD in Business, and I love each discipline with equal measure. I am the author of many articles, and was a regular commentator on Vermont Public Radio delivering a number of powerful and insightful commentaries on contemporary issues.
My real passion is interviewing people who have great stories to tell, even if they themselves sometimes don’t know it. I’ve had the honor of working with key national and international public figures and authors, such as V, ‘The Vagina Monologues’ and ‘The Apology’, Ashley C. Ford, ‘Somebody’s Daughter’ and Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, “Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace”, Professor Anita Hill, ‘Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence’, Dr. Tara Westover, author of ‘Educated‘ and Mark Redmond, author of ‘Called’.
My native language is English, and I also speak Spanish, conversational Dutch and Portuguese.
