What You Notice Changes What Becomes Possible.

My favorite word is welcome.

I’ve loved that word since I was nine years old. My manifesto back then was simple: Who can I make friends with today?I looked at the world like everyone was a welcome guest at my party.

Honestly, that hasn’t changed.

What has changed is how deeply I understand why it matters.

Early in my career as a Les Clefs d’Or concierge, I had a GM named Mr. W. Every morning he’d walk into the lobby, give me a nod, scan the room, and every once in a while walk straight to my desk and place something in front of me—like a quarter-of-a-Post-it-sized piece of paper I had somehow missed in that enormous lobby.

I was mortified.

I took enormous pride in noticing the smallest details, especially the needs and emotions of our guests.

But I never forgot that tiny piece of paper.

That hotel became the number one hotel in the country. Not because of the brand name, marble floors, or grandeur, but because of what he taught us to see in the things we might otherwise walk past, talk past, or think past.

Over the years, I built a career in high-performance environments from hospitality to enterprise technology, while also training for endurance races and creating art. Very different worlds. Same lesson: what you notice affects your experience and how people experience you.

Years later, I began studying mindfulness with a former Buddhist monk and realized the smallest details aren’t always in the room.

Sometimes they’re in our own minds.

The assumptions we’re making. The stories we’re creating before someone even speaks. The meaning we’re assigning in real time without even realizing it.

That can change everything.

And it’s what I bring into every room I speak in.

My keynotes are colorful, interactive, a little unexpected, and designed to be an immersive experience. Through storytelling, art, live interaction, and plenty of play, I offer practical ways to give attention to what’s right in front of us, question the stories we’re telling ourselves, and decide what to do next.

The little things aren’t always little.

I’m an international keynote speaker, pop artist, mindfulness educator, and author of Weird Girl Adventures from A to Z. My work has reached audiences from corporate boardrooms to the NBA, exploring leadership, hospitality, culture, and human connection.

When I’m not on stage, you’ll usually find me in downtown Chicago with a giant coffee in hand, painting something colorful, taking improv and acting classes, blasting rock music from every decade of my life, or off on an adventure with my dog-child, Solo.