My throughline…

My professional life began as a career counselor, where I learned to listen carefully, ask good questions, and help people reframe challenges in ways that open new possibilities. When I was tapped to lead my first program evaluation, I recognized something: those same skills could help organizations understand whether their work was making a difference — and how to make it better.

Over thirty years, I’ve worked across sectors to build the infrastructure that connects strategy to evidence to learning. In higher education, I designed effectiveness and improvement frameworks. In community philanthropy, I led strategic learning and helped grantees strengthen their own capacity. In between and alongside, I’ve conducted rigorous evaluations focused on organizational transformation, workforce development, student success, and systems change. The throughline in all of it: the conviction that strategy, evidence, and learning are a continuous cycle; not a reporting obligation, but the engine of lasting impact.

In 2026, I founded Throughline Advisory around that conviction. Mission-driven organizations deserve a partner who brings both rigor and relationship to the work — someone who can help them draw a throughline from data to decisions to the change they’re trying to make.

When I’m not doing that work, you’ll probably find me on the ice. I’ve been a curler for eight years, and it’s taught me more than I could have imagined about reading conditions, adjusting strategy in real time, and what you can achieve when you work as a team — lessons that turn out to be just as relevant in organizational life as they are in the rink.