About Me

Drawing upon a portfolio career that includes experience with  strategic business development, creativity facilitation, law, teaching and publishing, I have been on the faculty of both undergraduate and law schools, president/c-level of multiple international nonprofits.

With specialties in the area of law, learning theory and crisis intervention I work with organizations in strategic planning, operations development, change management, growth, creativity and mediation.

I consult with organizations such as:

  • UCD Health System
  • US Small Business Administration
  • Cal. Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • California Trial Lawyers Assoc.
  • Trade book publishers
  • retail
  • law firms
  • real estate/property management
  • jury consulting,
  • sporting goods wholesale buyers’ coop
  • interior designer firm

I speak and facilitate for audiences that include:

    business owners, corporate boards, and community organizations;

    law school administrations, faculty, student bodies and attorneys;

    nurses, therapists, clergy and the dying

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State Bar of California

CA Real Estate, Broker

DGS State Certified Small Business, Cert #: 0044168

US Small Business Administration, Certified Entrepreneurial Leader

Certified Mediator, C to C

Administrator, Myers-Briggs Type Inventory,

Certified, Critical Incident Stress Intervention: Advanced Trauma Intervention

Such groups include the California Institute of Integral Studies; Anthony M. Kennedy Inns of Court; American Marketing Association; Rotary Int’l; National Association of Women Business Owners; and the Unitarian Universalist Church.

I have taught for the last fifteen years in topics that include:

  • business management, finance, marketing and strategic planning
  • communications, negotiation, mediation and conflict
  • creativity, change, conflict resolution and loss
  • business law, contracts, taxation and constitutional law

I write articles and columns in publications such as,

  • Prosper Magazine
  • Commerce Magazine
  • The Trial Lawyer
  • The Law Teacher

on topics that include business management, communication, leadership, change, generating creativity, and social science and law

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