Both sides
of the trap.

“You have to start where things really are, not where you would like them to be.”

I spent a decade in Social Anthropology — five years working toward a PhD — before I found myself moving beyond what the academic paradigm could contain. The research kept pointing toward something the framework wasn’t built to hold. I followed it anyway.

Before that, and alongside it, I spent fifteen years in corporate operations: building teams, running customer service at scale, having the conversations nobody else wanted to have. My nickname was “fearless leader” — not because I wasn’t afraid, but because I didn’t let fear determine what I said.

I understand the academic exhaustion loop — the grant applications, the institutional politics, the sense that the work you came to do has been slowly buried under the work you have to do. I understand the corporate machine — the performance, the shrinking of everything that isn’t productivity, the way life quietly contracts around a role that no longer fits.

I have lived inside both. Which means when you sit across from me, I’m not going to pretend it’s simpler than it is — or that the answer is obvious. I’m going to help you hear what you already know.

Work with me →