Ever since I was a child, I have been a learning-junkie. I am an insatiably curious book worm, so I suppose it’s not surprising that I ended up working in organizational Learning & Development.

In college at the University of Rochester, I studied cognitive psychology and neuroscience so I could learn how the brain learns (and learn, somewhat surprisingly, that I have ‘color-grapheme synesthesia’ which means I see letters and numbers in color. Feel free to ask me what your name looks like in my head). In graduate school at the London School of Economics, I focused on how medical knowledge is created. After deciding not to pursue a PhD (and become a Professor), I applied my learning-lens to the world of business - first as an instructional designer, then as a facilitator, and then as a 1-on-1 leadership coach.

I’ve ghost-written corporate whitepapers, research papers, and segments of social psychology books, all with the aim of taking my personal passion for learning and using it to help others learn and grow as well.

I do a lot of learning in my personal life as well, usually involving plants. So far, I have learned how to grow vegetables and flowers pretty damn well, if I do say so myself. I have a 300 square foot veggie garden that is very productive, and entirely started from seed under grow lights in my basement. I’ve recently learned how to make my own herbal tea, which should be a nice complement to the homemade sourdough bread I learned how to make during COVID (yes, I was one of those people haha).