My expertise comes from doing the work. Speaking is how I get to hand what I’ve learned to a room full of people and
watch something click.

I speak for conferences, associations, nonprofit teams, and professional communities in formats ranging from webinars and breakout sessions to keynotes, half-day and full-day workshops, and facilitated rituals.

My goal isn’t to leave people impressed by how much I know. It’s to make them feel like someone finally named the thing they’ve been dealing with - and gave them a workable place to start.

Speaking for people who do the work.

I love teaching almost as much as I love writing. My talks and workshops cover grant writing and AI, self-advocacy for frontline and direct-service staff, and the systems that make good people feel like they’re failing when the problem is bigger than one person.

If people leave with a clearer way to think about their problems and something they can actually do to address them, I’ve done my job.

Because some things can’t be solved with a slide deck.

Letting Go is a guided, participatory experience designed to help people acknowledge what they’re carrying and create a deliberate moment to put some of it down.

Delivered at Learn Grant Writing’s The Gathering, 2026

There’s a word for what’s actually happening to your application, and it’s not “rejected.”

This session looks at how AI is changing the environment around grant applications, the mistakes grant writers are making, and what nonprofit professionals need to understand before they let a tool make decisions it shouldn’t be making for them.

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Delivered for Nonprofit Apps, August 18, 2026
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