Two of the watershed events in my professional life are earning my MA in Applied Healing Arts from the Tai Sophia Institute, now Maryland University of Integrative Health, and “discovering” the art of coaching while I was in graduate school.  These two events propelled me to create East West Wisdom Coaching.

The Applied Healing Arts Master’s program at Tai Sophia based on the principles and practice of traditional five elements acupuncture helped give structure and “naming” to a belief system I had grown up with.  It was a happy synchronicity discovering coaching as a discipline and a vocation while engaged in this course of study.

I have always been interested in and desirous of helping people reach their full potential as leaders and human beings. My professional career has included political activism which concluded in working in the New York City Mayor Dinkins administration; feminism, as Field Director for the Ms. Foundation for Women; founding a national multiracial nonprofit community and cultural development organization; and running other non-profit organizations.  On the corporate side, I had been engaged in marketing and finally in career and leadership development for a multi-national human resources organization.

I found that meditation and focus was the underlying key in helping me to develop into a compassionate listener by allowing me to concentrate on their thoughts, feeling and words and be present “in the moment” when listening.   had developed what I have come to understand as empathetic listening, an asset which I was never even aware of but can be taught and learned by anyone who wants to be more effective in improving their communications skills in their professional as well as personal lives.

East West Wisdom coaching was born from this lifetime of experience and honing of cultural traditions and modern contemporary coaching practice.

I look forward to connecting with you!