I use the tools of visual sociology to help leaders build teams and organizational cultures of trust, understanding, and collaboration. The experiences I create through Reframe & Develop are visual, participatory, and deeply human.

My academic path began with a B.S. in international business and eventually a Ph.D. in sociology at Boston University. Throughout my career, I've studied how people actually live and work together, exploring this through participatory visual methods.

During my years as a professor, I found myself drawn increasingly toward community-based participatory research — work that felt immediate, tangible, and rooted in relationships. That shift eventually led me out of academia and into consulting, where I can focus on meaningful work: helping build workplace cultures where people flourish.

People spend most of their waking adult life at work. When there's no real connection to the people they work with, the work itself, or what that work produces, that costs something. Alternatively, when people feel included, seen, empowered, and connected, they flourish — and so do their organizations.

Over the last 10 years working with organizations, I've seen what can happen when people use their own photos to share their stories with one another: co-workers become colleagues, and workplaces become communities.

I started Reframe & Develop to bring the tools and skills I'd developed for intergroup and interfaith engagement to a new challenge: building healthy organizational cultures.