ABOUT CHARLAÉ

Hello! I'm an ICF-certified coach and people-first leader with 20 years of experience. Throughout my journey, I've had the privilege of serving as an award-winning leader in the domains and of HR, marketing, and program management. My professional path has taken me through the tech, retail, and defense industries, working with Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, small businesses, and local governments. My breadth of experience, domain expertise, and flexible style allow me to partner successfully on industry-agnostic projects, and have shaped my approach to leadership—one that views business challenges through an emotionally intelligent, culturally competent, and inclusive lens. For more on my professional background, please visit my LinkedIn profile.

I operate from the belief that organizational success and empathetic leadership aren't competing priorities—they're complementary forces. I bring a unique blend of strategic vision and hands-on implementation, creating environments where innovation naturally emerges from empowered teams.

My approach combines:

  • Systems thinking that addresses root causes, not just symptoms

  • Human-centered leadership that unlocks potential

  • Strategic expertise balanced with tactical execution

  • A commitment to creating psychologically safe environments where diverse perspectives thrive

I'm drawn to partner with heart-led, audacious organizations that share my healthy disregard for the status quo—and my willingness to roll up sleeves to create meaningful change. Together, we can build workplaces where both people and profits flourish, driving exceptional business results through the power of engaged, supported humans.

Ready to explore possibilities? Let’s connect.

BEYOND EXPERIENCE

What truly sets me apart isn't just my professional background—it's who I am at my core. My values, working style, personality, and unique worldview create the foundation for meaningful partnerships that transcend traditional client relationships.

When we collaborate, you'll experience something that goes beyond deliverables. Together, we create partnerships that are:

  • Fun yet productive

  • Complementary to your team's existing strengths, honoring your organizational wisdom

  • Built on transparency, clarity, and, at times, hard truths delivered with love

  • Designed to flourish into lasting professional relationships

To give you a glimpse into who I am beyond my resume, I've shared some personal insights below. While these elements don't define the full scope of my capabilities, they offer a window into the authentic qualities I bring to our work together—qualities that transform good working relationships into truly special ones.

  • My core values inform everything I do and the way I show up in the world. These values influence my coaching and collaboration style.

    Authenticity: high self-awareness and advocating for/living our truth unconditionally. The quality of being true to who we are and establishing character-based trust and reliance based on that truth.

    Joy: levity, humor, fun, ease, flow

    Intentionality: having clear purpose and mapping back to why we are doing something and what we hope to achieve

    Agency: the freedom, space, respect, and trust to act as a fully realized, independent human without being undermined

    Honesty: transparency, vulnerability, earnestness, openness, integrity, and accountability

  • CliftonStrengths is a professional assessment that identifies key strengths unique to each individual, and places them in context of professional impact. My top 5 strengths (click each strength to learn more):

    1. Strategic

    2. Individualization

    3. Empathy

    4. Relator

    5. Ideation

  • The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality assessment providing insights into how one processes the world.

    My type is INFJ. INFJ individuals tend to be insightful, principled, passionate, altruistic, deeply thoughtful, and creative.

  • The VIA Institute on Character is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the science of character strengths to the world. Character strengths are the positive parts of your personality that make you feel authentic and engaged.

    My top 5 character strengths:

    1. Perspective (Wisdom): Being able to provide wise counsel to others; having ways of looking at the world that make sense to oneself and others.

    2. Leadership (Justice): Encouraging a group of which one is a member to get things done and at the same time maintain good relations within the group; organizing group activities and seeing that they happen.

    3. Creativity (Wisdom): Thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things; includes artistic achievement but is not limited to it.

    4. Love of Learning (Wisdom): Mastering new skills, topics, and bodies of knowledge, whether on one's own or formally; related to the strength of curiosity but goes beyond it to describe the tendency to add systematically to what one knows.

    5. Bravery (Courage): Not shrinking from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain; speaking up for what’s right even if there’s opposition; acting on convictions even if unpopular.