Meet Annie
Hi. I’m Annie.
I'm a coach, facilitator and program designer who partners with healthcare, education, nonprofit, and mission-driven organizations to support the people behind the work.
Many of the individuals I work with spend their days caring for, leading, teaching or advocating for others. While they are deeply committed to their work, they often struggle with burnout, overwhelm, disconnection and the challenge of sustaining their own well-being.
Through coaching, workshops and facilitated experiences, I help people reconnect with themselves, strengthen their resilience, build meaningful relationships and create healthier ways of working together.
When the people doing the caring feel supported, everyone benefits - from individual team members to the organizations and communities they serve. Healthy people build healthy workplaces and healthy workplaces create greater impact in the world.
Why this work?
For more than a decade, I've worked with individuals navigating career transitions, leadership challenges, and questions about what it means to live and work well. Through those conversations, I gained a front-row seat to what helps people thrive… and what gets in the way.
Again and again, I heard stories of burnout, disconnection, difficult workplace cultures, and leaders who unintentionally diminished rather than developed the people around them.
It became clear that if we want healthier individuals, stronger communities, and a more sustainable future, we must pay attention to how we care for people at work.
That's what led me to organizational coaching and facilitation.
Today, I partner with healthcare, education, nonprofit, environmental and advocacy organizations to help create workplaces where people feel supported, valued, connected, and empowered to contribute their best work.
We are more than productivity machines. We are human beings. And when workplaces make room for the whole human, everyone benefits.
A little about my journey...
Born and raised in Omaha, NE, I was shaped by the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world). From a young age, I thought I'd become a therapist until I realized my sensibilities were better suited for empowering people than treating trauma.
I went on to study Human Development and Family Studies at UW-Madison, then spent years in people-focused roles - teaching English in Costa Rica and coordinating programs at educational & healthcare workforce development nonprofits. It wasn't until I became a coach after having my first child that my work began to feel like a true vocation- deeply connected to why I'm here.
After a decade of providing one-on-one coaching and leading women's retreats, I achieved the highest level of coaching certification—Master Certified Coach through ICF—and began to bring these coaching and program coordination skills to a new arena: human sustainability in the workplace.
What led me to workplace coaching?
In my client work, I heard story after story about unpleasant or even toxic workplaces and bosses. This broke my heart for several reasons:Life is too short to spend it in situations that diminish rather than elevate us
Organizational health reflects societal health—how we treat people at work matters beyond the office walls
We spend most of our waking hours at work—it should nourish, not drain us
I was also excited to invite program development back into my offerings!
About me personally…
I've been told I have one foot in the practical and one foot in the "woo"—you can't take the Midwest out of this girl, but I also love astrology podcasts. Both/and. The best compliment I've received? That I'm impossible to put in a box.
I live in San Francisco with my person and our three daughters—two human, one canine. Oh! And I love to dance!
Certifications & Education:
Certified Co-Active Coach, Master Certified Coach (MCC) - Coaches Training Institute
BA in Human Development & Family Studies, UW-Madison
Certificates in Nonprofit Management, Family Constellations & Somatic Abolitionism