I am an ENTREPRENEUR in this space. I am fueled to uniquely serve clients to facilitate creative, customized financial scenarios using my unique financial expertise. To clarify: I fulfill BOTH your financial expert + skilled mediator role. I also walked this path myself-and saw many ways I could uniquely REWORK a more EXPEDIENT process. I also felt the pain of having my legitimate concerns-in my first mediation-dismissed-and the ramifications of this having ripple effects in my family’s life.

My WHY fuels my tenacious, dedicated effort to ensure my clients are better off financially than when they found me. My approach to mediation & my process is DEEPLY ALIGNED WITH my professional & personal life: integrity, transparency, persistence, & tenacity-with RESOLVE to keep learning-to guide clients to innovative financial resolutions.

Hiring me will bring you unmatched perspective, insight, control, certainty, & freedom. I am fueled to keep you in the driver’s seat. I offer unique insight with 30+ years of financial expertise. I have a rare depth of business, finance, & life experience to empower innovative resolutions - not possible in court. If you have a question or concern, I answer promptly, completely, & truthfully while striving to help you understand vital information within realistic expectations.

I learned a lot since starting my career as a CPA at Arthur Andersen running multi-faceted billion-dollar audits. Auditing pension plans, & SEC & FCC audits sent me all over the US before realizing my passion was presenting business efficiencies to clients. This was the first foreshadowing of my focus on simplification using my forensic skills.

My career roles have demanded a high level of collaboration across multiple disciplines to synchronize & simplify. My role as a Senior Financial Analyst for Kraft Heinz, demanded me to collaborate to consolidate multi-divisional long-range plans. I progressed to a national law firm to help win a large fraud case with my forensic skills. Later, as a Senior Financial Analyst at Coca-Cola, Inc., & Time Warner, I honed my financial skills overseeing their long-range plans for large divisions. In these roles, I led the cross-functional financial synchronization of marketing, sales, accounting, finance, & legal.

I set myself apart as an outlier throughout my career. Early on, I was curious to learn all I could & interact with entrepreneurial thinkers to learn how to think creatively. I earned the trust & respect of Harvard-educated, top litigator-Joel Africk, ; he decided to write a letter of recommendation-for my work-to help get me off the wait list at Emory School of Law.

While I raised my only child, I invested in & became intimately familiar with every type of investment from MUNIs, REITs, & MLPs, & international currencies to stocks & corporate bonds. I was one of the top women international currency traders in the US at GAIN Capital in my self-employment as a professional-level currency trader for 12 years.

I am equally committed to being impactful in the community. I have passionately aligned my values with my “WHYs”. When my brother’s son was diagnosed with leukemia, Make-A-Wish Missouri granted him a wish that helped him gain the strength to fight leukemia. This led me, as a volunteer, to be the passionate force behind a team of women in Colorado that launched Make-A-Wish Colorado’s “Walk for Wishes”. This event has raised over $500k to grant kids wishes with life-changing illnesses. I also launched a “Wish Week” at my son’s high school-which continues to be a legacy of giving back.

Most recently, I helped raise money for Make-A-Wish Colorado’s “Wish Hero Campaign” to inspire others with the story of my nephew’s wish to live like a Navy Seal & triumph over leukemia. I also volunteered at Craig Hospital after my divorce to keep me grounded in a grateful, peaceful perspective. I had a life altering back injury I was fortunate to recover from - my senior year in high school.

A midwestern native, I have fallen in love with Colorado and have raised my son here, with my then CFO husband for 18 years, married for 22 years before divorcing. I credit my parents for modeling habits of gratitude, relentless pursuit of knowledge, fortitude & resourcefulness. I enjoy hot yoga, reading voraciously, boxing, & the beach. I deeply miss my dog Pepsi who was a favorite at Make-A-Wish Colorado events. I prioritize travel to visit friends & family as I consider this a crucial part of health & wealth.

I graduated Cum Laude from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a BS in Accountancy & I passed the CPA exam that same year.