When we work together, we will balance gravity and levity. We’ll talk about the hard things and we’ll laugh and celebrate your successes. I will be kind and direct — we won’t beat around the bush. I’ll toast to your strengths and I’ll call on you to step into your potential. I’ll encourage you to take different perspectives on your situation and to think about the systems that may be affecting it. It’s all about the “and.”

One of my very favorite things about this work is to see a team or leader pick up a new skill or perspective as a result of working with me — and have them say things just feel easier now.  One client wrote about me:

“Cara has a wonderful way of making hard work feel effortless.”

I ran my own coaching and consulting business for four years. I spent nearly a decade in healthcare, coaching physician leaders and hospital administrators. And most recently, I spent seven years in tech, coaching engineering and operations leaders at Tableau and Salesforce. 

My fascination with human behavior began as a young adult in the wilderness, taking unruly teenagers on month-long adventures as an Outward Bound instructor. I got curious about how the things I was learning about teams applied “in the real world” (and if we’re honest about it, I also got tired of being cold and broke). So I headed for a Master’s Degree in Applied Behavioral Science with a focus on Coaching and Consulting in Organizations.

I live on a blueberry farm in Poulsbo, Washington, with both my husband and my best canine pal, Milo. When I’m not working, you can find me hiking in the woods, riding bikes and motorcycles, or begrudgingly laboring around the homestead.