The background

 

Before Red Oaks Leadership, I spent over a decade at Google, working across sales operations, strategy, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness. I sat close to senior leaders during real transformation: new technology, new structure, new pressure, new stakes. I watched which teams adjusted fast and which ones got stuck, and I got curious about why.

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The answer wasn't intelligence or effort. Every team I worked with was smart and worked hard. The difference was whether people could say what they actually thought in the room, and whether the team could turn that honesty into a decision and take action on it. 

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Why I started Red Oaks Leadership

 

I started this firm because I kept seeing the same problem at company after company: leadership teams investing heavily in strategy and technology, then watching it stall because the human system around the change wasn't ready to carry it.

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That's not a training problem. Training teaches people what to do. This is about whether a leadership team can trust each other enough to disagree honestly, decide clearly, and hold each other to it, especially when the pressure is high and the answer isn't obvious yet.

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How We work

 

I partner directly with leadership teams and the executives who lead them. Depending on the engagement, I bring in specialists in facilitation, organizational design, or executive coaching to support the work. Red Oaks is built to scale with what a leadership team actually needs, not to force every problem into one simple solution.

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My background is in technology and fast-moving organizations, which means I don't need the situation explained to me twice. I've sat in the room during the acquisition, the reorg, the launch that didn't go the way anyone planned.

 

I know what that pressure does to a team, and what it takes to get a team through it intact and moving.

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Credentials

• 12 years at Google: sales operations, strategy, leadership development, organizational effectiveness. 

• Director of Talent Management & Organization Development at a publicly traded ed tech company.

• PCC certified executive coach

• Organizational development background, applied specifically to high-stakes transformation