Meeting People Where They Are
Nearly twenty years in the nonprofit sector, now spent across two companies and a dissertation. Vocational rehabilitation, career counseling, and community engagement: three routes through the same question.
People arrive knowing more about their own lives than any assessment will tell me. Most of my work is vocational rehabilitation, walking alongside youth and adults with disabilities as they decide what work they want and how to get there, usually inside systems that were not built around them. The teaching and the dissertation come from the same place: how a practitioner sees a person shapes what that person is ever offered, and most of us never examine it.
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Practice
- Lincoln Square CoachingFounder and CEO since 2021. Vocational rehabilitation serving 350+ youth and adults with disabilities each year across New York and New Jersey. lincolnsqcoaching.com
- ServicesPre-Employment Transition Services, vocational evaluations, career counseling
- The GroveCommunity enrichment classes in Midtown Manhattan. thegrovenyc.org
- Big Apple CoachingIndividual coaching practice. bigapplecoaching.com
Research
- Doctoral studyHuman Resource Development, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. Expected defense 2027.
- QuestionHow vocational rehabilitation and workforce practitioners make sense of their role, and what helps or hinders person-centered practice.
- MethodQualitative interviews with practitioners across public and nonprofit settings.