I have a passion for working with helping professionals, in all fields and contexts across many thousands of workshops, enhancing their abilities to help their clients make positive and sustained changes. Since 2006, I have been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and an independent consultant and trainer. I am a MINT Certified Trainer and I currently serve as a Director Emeritus from the MINT Board of Directors where I focus on professional skill development for MI practitioners and trainers. I will be leading the 2025 MINT Training for Trainers (Canada, Virtual), previously serving as Co-Lead Trainer in Canada (2023—Virtual), and in-person for Warsaw (2019), New Orleans (2018) and Berlin (2015), co-trainer in Atlanta (2014) and providing training team support in Fort Wayne (2012) and Sheffield (2011).

I am a co-author of the 2021 book Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Practitioners- A Toolkit for Skills Enhancement, co-developer of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) coding and coaching instrument and co-author of the forthcoming What’s the Problem? An Advanced Guide to Motivational Interviewing (2026). I regularly provide MI coding and skill development coaching and provide consultation to systems and research projects for effective MI implementation.

I have served as the subject matter expert for several MI demonstration series including: “MI with Adolescents” produced by psychotherapy.net that includes MI with Adolescents: Core Concepts, MI in Juvenile Justice Settings, MI for Adolescent Health Behavior and MI for Adolescent Substance Use; for the California Judicial Education Resources (CJER) MI video scenarios and guide for judges; for the University of California at Davis Human Services Academy supporting child welfare services and parent partners across the state; and the UC Davis MI in Child Welfare video series. I am also a consultant for Chapin Hall/University of Chicago, for supporting MI implementation best practices under the Family First Prevention Services Act.

I spent my undergraduate years at Occidental College in Los Angeles and completed graduate studies in organizational behavior, organization design and work motivation at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University, as well as my J.D. at the Cornell University School of Law. I earned an Advanced Certificate from Cornell University’s ILR School in Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility Strategies (IDEAS) and am a Cornell Certified Diversity Professional. In my spare time I participate in marathon swimming events, raising funds for under-resourced kid’s charities.