What I love and do:
I help people and teams say what needs to be said, use friction wisely and turn tension into growth and progress.
I work in the spaces where people meet under pressure — in leadership, in the arts, and in the complex human terrain between them. My background spans coaching, mediation, performance psychology and the lived reality of artistic environments. What connects it all is a simple idea: when people feel safe enough to be honest, something important becomes possible.
I am the one brought into rooms where something is at stake — where relationships tighten, pressure rises, and people need a combination of competence and steady presence to stay with the discomfort long enough for something new to emerge.
With more than two decades of leadership experience, and over a decade dedicated to supporting leaders, artists, teams and organisations, I help people navigate complex and high-stakes situations. I’ve facilitated thousands of hours of conversations, worked closely with performers and leaders at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, and served as a mediator in the Norwegian National Mediation Service. These experiences have given me a deep understanding of how people behave when identity, ambition, vulnerability and conflict collide—and how to bring clarity, steadiness and care into moments where things become personal, complex and consequential.
My work is quiet by design. I don’t arrive with answers. I arrive with presence, structure and the ability to hold a room when it becomes uncomfortable. I help people speak truthfully, listen deeply, and navigate the tensions that shape their relationships and their work. Sometimes that means resolving a conflict. Sometimes it means understanding it. Sometimes it means transforming it.
I’m drawn to environments where excellence and humanity must coexist: cultural institutions, creative teams, leadership groups, and organisations in transition. These are places where the stakes are high, the emotions are real, and the conversations are rarely simple. They are also places where the right kind of dialogue can change everything.
My approach is grounded in rigorous training — CPCC, PCC (ICF), extensive Theory U studies, advanced work in neuroscience and dialogue in Canada, and international studies in conflict and systems thinking in South Africa — and shaped by the artistic sensibility that comes from years inside performance environments. It’s a combination that allows me to work with both precision and softness, and to meet people exactly where they are.
I am currently expanding my practice through advanced studies in conflict, leadership and system dynamics, and I am preparing for further training at Harvard and Columbia ICCCR and in the future Tavistock Institute. This is part of a long‑term commitment to deepen my work in high‑stakes human dynamics and the environments where they unfold.
At its core, my work is about helping people move through what is difficult with more honesty, more clarity and more connection. Not by avoiding the tension, but by meeting it — together.
