I turn ambiguous problems into working models, real revenue, and systems that hold up after launch.
J.D. · M.S.Ed. · PMP
Corporate and nonprofit both. I build the revenue models, operations, and programs that outlast a single funder. Bridging gaps, building futures.
I do this work across corporate and nonprofit settings, because the discipline is the same: find the real problem, model the path, and build what lasts.
Figures reflect program reach and portfolio scope across Motivate Lab and Thrive Philly.
I help organizations turn intention into infrastructure. Not decks that sit on a shelf. Working models, real pricing, and operations that hold up after the launch. The same discipline, whether the client is a company or a community.
Tiered pricing, freemium funnels, revenue and compensation modeling. I find where the value lives, model the tradeoffs, and build the option leadership can actually decide from. I have used it to move a program off grant dependency onto a recurring revenue model.
Explore the work →CRMs, pipelines, and the project-management and automation infrastructure underneath. Enterprise-standard operations built without an enterprise budget, so the work stays visible and on track as it scales.
Explore the work →Taking a model from one site to many. Recruitment, onboarding, pricing, and the operational backbone that lets it grow without breaking. I have scaled a single program to 32 institutions and hundreds of practitioners.
Explore the work →Focus groups, stakeholder listening, and qualitative and quantitative analysis translated into decisions, not just reports. I get to the “so what” that leadership can move on.
Explore the work →1:1 coaching and consulting engagements. See services & pricing →
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I led a federal grant from start to finish. Not a piece of it. The whole arc, from design through delivery to close-out. The work put 52+ focus groups on the ground across 20 states, produced 2 publications, and stood up the largest student well-being survey in osteopathic medical education. I also co-authored both professional development courses the program is built around — the Resilient Mindsets in Medicine Faculty Course and the Student Support Professionals Course. Real research, real reach, real findings that moved the field.
Federal funding ends. When it does, the work usually ends with it. Not because it stopped working, but because the money ran out and no one built what came next.
I authored and secured a new direct-funded contract that moved the program off grant dependency onto a recurring institutional sales model. I designed how member colleges buy in, what they pay for, and how the revenue renews year over year, then built the sales process, pricing logic, and operational workflow underneath it.
A program that funds itself. It scaled to 32 colleges of osteopathic medicine and 200+ faculty, with reach across 20,000+ medical students, and a funding model built to outlast any single grant cycle.
I don't just run the program. I build the thing that keeps it alive after the first funder is gone.
Peer-reviewed work produced by the Resilient Mindsets in Medicine team, plus the workshops and conference sessions I've presented from it.
Scholarly work from the four-year project I led. Authorship credit belongs to the research team listed on each paper.
What a national survey of osteopathic medical faculty reveals about the workplace conditions that support or undermine educator well-being.
Read publication →How the way students see themselves as learners is linked to flourishing, resilience, burnout, and symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Read publication →The classroom conditions that help medical students build a growth mindset, and how those environments translate into better well-being.
Read publication →I use AI as a working layer in my own day, building generative AI into Google Apps Script workflows to speed up document creation, reporting, analysis, and partner communication. It's infrastructure, not a headline.
And I teach it. At Thrive Philly, I train students on practical, responsible AI adoption as part of professional-readiness programming, so the people I serve aren't left behind by a tool that's reshaping the work they're preparing for.
Using it well and teaching it well are different skills. I do both.
The business case above is the what. This is the why underneath it.
A first-generation map from Ahoskie to West Philly to Spelman to Penn to here. The lineage, the formation, the work, and the throughline that makes the whole thing make sense.
For four years, I taught high school biology in Philadelphia — building a classroom rooted in culturally relevant pedagogy, belonging, and community. Science as a doorway, not a gate.
Born at the pivot of COVID — when community was told to pause, Philly STEMinist pressed play. Built for students who didn't have laptops or stable internet but did have a cellphone and a Wi-Fi signal to borrow. A reminder that learning doesn't stop because access does. Using what students had — bridging gaps to build futures through education.
Long-form on building, power, and rewriting shame into strategy. New pieces land when there's something worth saying.
Wayfinding, navigational capital, and the maps Black folk carry in our bones.
Before GPS, before highways, before anyone drew a line on a map for us, we knew the way. This is an essay about navigational capital — the inherited knowledge Black folk use to move through systems that were never built for us — and the quiet genius of finding home anyway.
Rewrite the shame. Hold your peach. Clock it.
Every founder carries a testimony. Most are taught to hide it. This is the argument for doing the opposite, and the practice it takes to turn shame into strategy and conditions into receipts.
Thrive Club on YouTube. Plus the short-form on TikTok. Everything that doesn't fit in a paragraph.
Strategy, community, and storytelling. Each pillar feeding the next.
The nonprofit closing wellness, education, and economic gaps across Philadelphia.
Support the work →Keynotes, workshops, and conference presentations on systems change, motivation, well-being, and educational equity — including the NIH Workplace Change Collaborative, IAMSE, AACOM Educating Leaders, SPSP, and Black Girls Can's Pathway to Power.
Book me to speak →Systems thinking, curriculum design, and educational equity — research translated into evidence-based solutions at scale.
See the case study →Top Philadelphia Woman Entrepreneur — Immortal Vision spotlight. Plus selected features and coverage.
See coverage ↓Initiatives I led across systems, states, and disciplines, 2022–2026.
32 Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, 200+ faculty, 20,000+ medical students.
Year-long PD for Kentucky educators teaching gateway college courses.
System-wide implementation of AB 705, AB 1705, and ESS 23-08.
Advised the Tennessee Board of Regents system on designing and implementing motivation-supportive practices across its institutions.
Keynotes, panels, and the rooms where the work shows up.
