Meet Valerie

Welcome! I’m an executive, life coach and mindfulness mentor, and an essay writer, poet and published author.

Executive & Life Coaching. I support senior leaders, executive directors, and individual contributors to master an array of issues using mindfulness, attention and self-compassion practices.

My niche is working with women 40+ navigating the consequences of workplace bullying and abuse. I draw on my lived experience of workplace bullying and intimate partner violence and share the fruits of my ongoing healing journey.

Writer. I publish personal essays about universal themes on my Substack newsletter, Glorious Ordinary. I write with clarity, honesty and insight about topics like grief, overcoming an eating disorder, true nourishment, depression, intimate partner violence, flourishing with type 1 diabetes, parenting adult children, aging and more.

For almost a decade I was a freelance writer and published author. I have two biographies in a Random House Young Reader series: Meet Maya Angelou and Meet Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Mindfulness Mentor. Clients benefit from my 30 year (and counting) meditation practice, which includes extensive silent retreat experience, and ongoing classes and groups. I’m devoted to meditation as a spiritual practice. Sustainable change comes from self-awareness, and self-awareness leads to confidence and joy.

We can all use a lot more joy! Let’s find it together!

And for details about my multifaceted career in the nonprofit sector please go to my LinkedIn profile.