Who i am

I started my big-kid career as a high school German teacher. Over the span of a decade, I figured out how to get teenagers to be excited about learning something that they absolutely did not need. My strategy was simple: establish rapport and trust so that I could deliver rigor disguised in comprehensible input and make it joyful. Over time, I turned a suffering elective class into a waitlisted program in one of the largest school districts in Northwest Ohio.

When I consciously switched gears to teaching boutique fitness for one of the world’s most successful and well-known brands in the business, I harnessed the same approach. Eventually, the corporate training and technique team of said brand scooped me up and I got to flex and extend my knack for captivating and influencing people to dozens of studios and hundreds of coaches, instructors, and teachers from British Columbia to Puerto Rico. I had reached the summit—I got to be a leader with the brand behind the local studio that changed my personal and professional trajectory.

After five years on the corporate side of boutique fitness, I came to a realization. It isn’t a brand or a specific modality of boutique fitness that makes an impact. For me, it’s all about the connections I get to build with real individuals in pursuit of being a little better and better.