I work at the intersection of organizational psychology, change management, employee experience, and practical AI enablement. From diagnosing retention issues to building AI powered workflows for small businesses, I turn insight into action people can actually use.
I use I/O psychology methods to find out what’s actually driving disengagement, turnover, or resistance to change. Not surveys for the sake of surveys. Root-cause analysis that leads to specific, actionable recommendations.
Prosci-certified and practiced across manufacturing, consulting, and tech. I build adoption strategies tied to real outcomes, not slide decks that sit in a shared drive.
Through AI Ascend Consulting, I help teams and small businesses integrate AI tools into their actual workflows. Training that sticks because it’s built around the work you already do.
Currently leading a 5,000-person Microsoft account at Thrive Global. I design programs, manage vendor ecosystems, build champion networks, and track what’s actually moving the needle.
I apply quantitative and qualitative research methods to complex organizational data. From coding 4,000 open-ended survey responses to surfacing patterns across 200,000-plus employee datasets, I turn raw data into findings that inform real decisions.
“I kept seeing the same pattern: talented people leaving good organizations because of systems problems nobody was naming.”
From studying I/O psychology at the University of Maryland to consulting with Spencer Stuart’s culture practice, from the manufacturing floors at Kennametal to the tech sector at Thrive Global and my own consulting practice, I’ve built a career around one question: what would this organization look like if its systems actually worked for the people inside them?
Whether you’re a hiring manager, a colleague, or someone who wants to talk through shared interests in organizational effectiveness, I’d love to hear from you.
Selected projects from consulting, in-house, and independent work. Each represents a real organizational problem, the diagnostic and design process, and a measurable outcome.
A major healthcare organization was hemorrhaging nursing talent. Exit interviews pointed to vague dissatisfaction, but leadership lacked a clear diagnosis of what was actually driving attrition.
I led the diagnostic workstream, working through engagement data, exit patterns, and operational workflows. The root cause was not compensation or burnout in isolation. Communications were irregular and disconnected from frontline realities, and professional development trainings were scheduled at times nurses on shift could never attend. I built the recommendation deck that reframed the retention problem as a systems design problem and laid out specific, implementable interventions.
The client implemented the recommendations, restructuring communication cadences and shifting training delivery to nurse-accessible formats. The following year, nurse retention improved by 40%.
The 60-minute hands-on workshop deck I use when training clients on AI prompting. Covers what AI and LLMs are, a 3-level prompting framework (basic, intermediate, advanced), and live practice exercises participants complete in real time.
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A personal training business owner had two compounding problems. Clients who could not afford regular sessions were going unsupported between bookings, creating a gap in the service offering and a ceiling on reach. And the owner wanted to show up consistently on social media to grow their audience, but could not generate and schedule content while also managing a full client roster.
I addressed both problems as a connected system. For the coaching gap, I built a subscription-based custom GPT configured around the owner's coaching philosophy, exercise protocols, nutrition guidance, and common client questions. Clients who could not afford regular sessions could subscribe and receive tailored responses at any hour, extending the owner's expertise without extending their hours. For social media, I designed and delivered a 4-class curriculum: Class 1 covered intro to prompting and how to get useful output from an LLM; Class 2 focused on training an LLM to internalize the owner's brand voice so content always sounded like them; Class 3 introduced image and video generation tools for creating professional visual content without a production budget; Class 4 covered brainstorming content ideas and building a scheduling system with LLM assistance so the owner could batch-produce a week of content in one sitting.
The custom GPT created a new subscription revenue stream, extending the owner's coaching reach to clients at a lower price point without additional time on their calendar. The 4-class curriculum gave the owner a repeatable, independent system for generating, producing, and scheduling social media content. Together, both solutions freed significant hours per week that had previously gone to fielding repeat questions, taking consultations, and staring at a blank content calendar.
The 60-minute hands-on workshop deck I use when training clients on AI prompting. Covers what AI and LLMs are, a 3-level prompting framework (basic, intermediate, advanced), and live practice exercises participants complete in real time.
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A public-sector transportation organization was facing falling employee engagement scores and a widening gap between the culture its leaders believed they had and the one they wanted — organized around customer satisfaction, purpose, and operational efficiency.
I helped facilitate leadership alignment on current-versus-desired culture. That meant running focus groups and alignment workshops to clarify the leadership vision, then identifying and engaging key influencers across the organization to carry the cultural shifts forward. I helped build a communications strategy so leadership could deliver regular updates on cultural initiatives and respond to employee feedback. The engagement also included standing up managerial training and upskilling, improving benefit offerings to attract a younger workforce, and increasing the cadence of town halls to open real communication between staff and leadership.
Employee engagement scores improved and turnover decreased. The strength of the work led the client to award an additional contract for leadership development.
The 60-minute hands-on workshop deck I use when training clients on AI prompting. Covers what AI and LLMs are, a 3-level prompting framework (basic, intermediate, advanced), and live practice exercises participants complete in real time.
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A client navigating a merger needed to examine every position on a 22-person team. Some roles were redundant, others no longer necessary — but leadership wanted to preserve as many people as possible by redeploying their skills.
I conducted a job analysis for every member of the team, mapping individual capabilities against the merged organization's short- and long-term goals. Rather than defaulting to reductions in force, I helped create new positions that leveraged existing talent and matched people to roles aligned with their demonstrated skillsets. This required detailed skills inventories, stakeholder interviews, and iterative role design.
The restructuring was completed while preserving as many positions as possible. Employees were placed into roles that matched their capabilities, protecting institutional knowledge and maintaining workforce stability through the transition.
The 60-minute hands-on workshop deck I use when training clients on AI prompting. Covers what AI and LLMs are, a 3-level prompting framework (basic, intermediate, advanced), and live practice exercises participants complete in real time.
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On day one of my first internship, I was handed roughly 4,000 open-ended employee survey responses. The dataset was already behind schedule and needed to be coded into themes and delivered to the parent company within a week and a half. There was no template, no precedent set for me, and no buffer.
I started by skimming the full dataset to identify recurring themes before committing to a coding structure. Once I had a working framework I ran it by my manager, then built a daily workflow around the math: 4,000 responses across 8 days meant 500 coded entries per day, which I broke into five 100-response sessions to give my focus room to reset between rounds. As I coded I built visual aids in parallel so the findings would be ready to present, not just ready to submit.
I finished ahead of the deadline and presented the insights directly to the VP of HR, complete with visuals. What started as a data processing problem became a demonstration that I could take an ambiguous, high-volume task, build a system around it, and produce something a senior leader could act on. This approach to breaking down complex data into usable findings has carried through every role since.
The 60-minute hands-on workshop deck I use when training clients on AI prompting. Covers what AI and LLMs are, a 3-level prompting framework (basic, intermediate, advanced), and live practice exercises participants complete in real time.
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A 10,000+ employee global manufacturing company needed to increase engagement program participation and establish a structured approach to DEIB communications across diverse sites and shifts.
I applied the Prosci ADKAR change management framework to redesign how employee experience programs were communicated and delivered. I built and managed the DEIB newsletter and internal site content reaching all 10,000+ employees globally, streamlined the DEI content submission process, partnered with Corporate Communications on messaging strategy, and project-managed the launch of external DEIB training vendor partnerships.
Program participation increased by 35%. DEIB communications reached the full global workforce for the first time through a sustainable content pipeline I designed and operationalized.
The 60-minute hands-on workshop deck I use when training clients on AI prompting. Covers what AI and LLMs are, a 3-level prompting framework (basic, intermediate, advanced), and live practice exercises participants complete in real time.
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Six years across management consulting, in-house people operations, defense, manufacturing, and tech. Every role anchored in the same question: how do you make organizations work better for the people inside them?
University of Maryland, College Park
Summa Cum Laude · December 2021Marymount University
Cum Laude · May 2020ADKAR methodology
Disability and accessibility inclusion
Since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated by understanding how things work. I used to take apart toys and gadgets and meticulously label the parts before putting them back together. I memorized every player’s name, height, college, and stats in the NFL. My brain has always been wired to find the system underneath the surface: not just what something does, but why it works the way it does.
That same curiosity is what drew me to psychology, and eventually to I/O psychology specifically. The biggest leverage point in any organization isn’t individual behavior; it’s the systems people operate within. Change the system, and you change outcomes for everyone inside it.
What I find most rewarding in this work is giving people a voice. There’s something genuinely satisfying about running surveys, focus groups, and interviews, and then turning what people share into insights that actually change something. Not reports that sit in a shared drive. Findings that lead somewhere. I became good at collecting and analyzing data precisely because I cared about what it pointed to.
My graduate work at the University of Maryland gave me the research foundation. Spencer Stuart gave me the consulting discipline: how to take academic rigor into a client engagement, diagnose the real problem, and build something leadership can act on. Culture assessments drawing on data from hundreds of thousands of employees. Restructurings designed to keep people employed instead of cutting headcount as a first move.
Since then, I’ve deliberately moved across industries, because I think the most useful thing an organizational psychologist can do is see how the same human problems show up in completely different environments. Manufacturing at Kennametal. Defense contracting at Leonardo DRS. And now tech, serving as regional account manager for Thrive Global’s wellbeing platform at Microsoft Americas.
My experience in DEI and employee engagement has deepened my appreciation for what diverse perspectives actually produce when organizations build the right conditions. It’s not a nice-to-have; it makes organizations more accurate, more adaptive, and more resilient.
I also started AI Ascend Consulting because I kept seeing the same gap: people teams and small businesses who know AI matters but don’t have anyone to help them figure out how it applies to their actual work. Real training on real tools for real tasks.
That’s the thread that runs from the kid taking apart gadgets in DC to the work I’m doing now.
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), member. Atlanta I/O psychology professional community.
Whether you’re a hiring manager, a colleague, or just want to connect around shared interests in organizational effectiveness and people strategy, I’d love to hear from you.
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