I’m a spiritual director, executive leader, and pastor with thirty years of experience forming people and leading organizations.

I've led an organization with 100+ employees and a twelve-million-dollar budget, started a church in Amsterdam and led it for seven years, and spoken to rooms of a few thousand. I've led startups and large organizations through seasons of launch, growth, and stabilization, and I've seen my fair share of challenge, pain, and complexity (colloquially known as "the human sh!t show").

But the hour I spend with one person doing deep work is the hour I'd keep if I had to give up all the rest. Watching someone find their way back to themselves never gets old. It's slow, unglamorous, mostly invisible, and it is what I'm made for. I know I can’t take anyone further than I’ve gone myself, so I keep doing my own work: prayer, silence, direction… and living the questions.

I grew up in West Germany (when that was still a thing), lived in city center Amsterdam, and for some reason God only knows am currently based in central Ohio. I'm a mum of three young adults. I write poetry. I travel every chance I get. And I have recently, improbably, become a runner… which has confused everyone who knows that my favourite hobby is napping.

I believe what is obvious to most: our world is a broken place filled with broken people. And: there is so much beauty and joy to be had! All that to say, I'm familiar with holding existential tensions and believe that attending seriously to the questions, habits, and practices that help grow healthy humans is the best kind of work there is.

English Literature, The Ohio State University · Theology, Vineyard Leadership Institute · Spiritual Direction, Sustainable Faith Global