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coaching + consulting

Conscious Consults offers consulting and business coaching for small businesses and nonprofit organizations. From smooth start-up to intentional exit, you’ll benefit from working with an experienced small business owner and nonprofit founder who cares about your success.

services

Conscious Consults blends both consulting and coaching as needed for each unique client, providing a customized, holistic, and effective approach that will improve both your company’s performance and your satisfaction as a business leader. Together, we will determine how to best address the challenges you are facing—whether financial, operational, strategic, motivational, or all of the above—one actionable step at a time. We will also ensure that you stay grounded in your core values, and focused on your personal and professional goals. Our work together may include elements such as:

consulting

  • Create, operationalize, or refine your business plan or strategic plan

  • Develop a budget, optimize cash flow + learn how to plan ahead

  • Design and implement data reporting + use it to drive your decision-making

  • Streamline operations, improve efficiencies + increase productivity

  • Develop an authentic brand identity + create an actionable marketing plan

  • Improve your sales program + customer service practices

  • Uplevel your HR practices to attract and retain a talented team

  • Understand + implement principles of diversity, equity & inclusion

  • Identify + pursue opportunities for business growth

  • Attract investment or evaluate financing options

  • Plan a successful exit

coaching

  • Hone your abilities as a leader and manager 

  • Mindfully lead your organization through challenge + change

  • Improve your clarity, communication, and organizational skills

  • Create a positive and professional work culture in your organization

  • Clarify your personal values + integrate them into your business

  • Work with an accountability partner to improve your follow-through

  • Identify + challenge habitual patterns that are keeping you from reaching your goals

  • Respond more effectively to major challenge or day-to-day stressors

  • Design and prioritize your optimal work-life balance

  • Find greater fulfillment in your life and work

about me

I have 20+ years of experience in founding and managing both small businesses and nonprofit organizations. From start-up to successful exit, I’ve been responsible for every aspect of an organization’s strategy and operations.

I believe that one of entrepreneurship’s greatest rewards is the opportunity to consciously craft the work you do and the life you live. After selling my last business, I’m excited to leverage my experience and skills for the benefit of others on the entrepreneurial path. I’m most energized when working with organizations that do good in the world, whether through bringing a sense of purpose and fulfillment to their owner(s), or by addressing a larger social problem.

I am a parent of two young children, an avid traveler, and a yoga and meditation practitioner. I am fluent in Spanish, have a BA in Latin American Studies from Pitzer College, and earned a Graduate Certificate in Social Justice from Harvard University’s Extension School.

previous experience

  • My husband Ethan and I literally started our kombucha business out of our (health department-inspected) garage. Over the course of 11 years, we grew the company to a team of 20+ people, a regional distribution footprint across 9 states, 300+ accounts, and $1M in annual sales. We evaluated our success not only through our profits, but through our company’s environmental impact: with a tagline of “big flavor, small footprint,” we saved over 1 million bottles through our refillable bottle program. In 2020, we were honored with Whole Foods Market’s Regional Supplier of the Year Award for the Mid-Atlantic Region.

  • I developed and operationalized a 501c3 nonprofit organization with a mission to make healing arts practices such as yoga, meditation, acupuncture, and massage accessible to all. With the guidance of experienced mentors, the support of community partners, and by leading a talented staff and volunteer team of 90+ people, l spearheaded a community organization that has improved the health and wellness of over 10K individuals in the past 10 years.

  • My two fearless partners and I trained 80+ yoga teachers over a period of five years. An educator at heart, I relished the opportunity to dive into the physical practices and philosophy of yoga, and to guide others on their teaching path. My background in meditation and yoga gives me a special interest in work-life integration for both myself and my consulting clients.

  • I was tasked with the creation of a new department; collaborating with multiple stakeholders to develop our operational plan; and hiring, training, and managing a team of 19 people. At the time, the Getty Museum was one of the wealthiest art institutions in the world, with a fantastic company culture. While this may have given me an unusual initiation into the nonprofit space, I had the opportunity to undergo multiple training sessions in leadership and management, and benefited greatly from a mentor boss, who both provided solid guidance and gave me enough space to develop to my full potential within the position.

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