I am a thought partner and sounding board for strategy and execution. My passion is to help women executives, entrepreneurs, teams and organizations to unlock their full potential. Whether it be launching a new company, developing a groundbreaking product, or forging a fulfilling career, I collaborate with leaders to name their strengths, ignite their dreams, and chart a concrete path to bring their vision to life.
Combining my own personal growth journey with decades of experience as an advisor to Fortune 500 companies and startups, my aim is to fast-track your path to success.
In our work together, what typically might take you five months, five years or might never even happen can take you weeks or months.
My approach is interdisciplinary and will draw upon my expertise in scientific research, business innovation, and conscious leadership.
To help you grow, we will build a container that is unique for your growth where you will feel safe to explore, experiment, overcome obstacles (those that are real and those that are stories in your mind) and take courageous and measurable steps towards your goals.
If we are working on your venture, I can also help by being your thought partner, leadership coach, and sounding board for problem solving.
They are:
Industry pioneers pushing boundaries and exploring new frontiers, driving innovation—and ultimately solving some of the world’s toughest problems.
Corporate leaders and entrepreneurs stretching their conscious leadership muscles, building high-performing teams, creating healthy cultures—and ultimately scaling their passions.
Executive women feeling restless and wanting greater clarity on what’s next—and ultimately to land in a career and life with even more love, joy and abundance.
I am open to exploring different paths for engagement. Some examples of ways I work with clients:
Integrating my experience in strategy, new business creation, and culture transformation, I work with organizations to define their mission and products/services. Once we have vividly painted a picture of what you want your organization to be and do, we co-create a strategy for making it real—aligning the entire team around what you want to accomplish and laying out the goals and the key strategic initiatives to be successful.
I help CEOs and entrepreneurs who are peak performers accelerate their growth and move into their next level of innovation by providing a sounding board and helping them to better understand themselves. Through clear processes and methodology, I support leaders in showing up powerfully and authentically, learning how to manage their triggers and blind spots and leverage their strengths.
A series of 1:1 coaching sessions to architect a life that integrates all that matters to you--on a personal and business level. Together, we will co-design the next phase of your career in a way that leverages all of your unique strengths and experiences and provide personal connection and fulfillment at the same time.
One of the greatest triumphs of human existence is having work that feels good for ourselves and is good for the world at exactly the same time, as poet David Whyte writes. To get there, like any important journey, it is often not a straight path and requires experimentation.
My own journey here has not been a straight path. It’s been a series of zig-zags that at the time did not make any sense but have led me to this point where everything is in perfect harmony.
Vice President
IBM Research
Director of Innovation Discovery
IBM Global Sales and Marketing
Senior Strategist
IBM Emerging Business Strategy
Co-Founder/CEO
Flourish
Principal Partner
PwC Consulting
Mentor
NYU Endless Frontiers Lab
M.S. Management, Sloan Fellow
Stanford University
B.S. Industrial Engineering
B.A. English
Lehigh University
Certified Big Leap Coach
Hendricks Institute
Process Graduate
Hoffman Institute
“Jade was my amazing mentor at NYU’s Endless Frontiers Lab. Jade’s organizational insight and input was extremely helpful as we began to scale out our team. She was also VERY helpful with feedback on my pitch deck which helped to successfully close a significant capital raise.”
“Working with Jade is a secret source of power and support for any woman, man, or person who wants to take control of their destiny at work and in business, and have fun doing it.”
“What I value most about Jade is that her vast and eclectic personal and professional experience lends itself to asking questions that open up the aperture even farther to insights and thinking that I don’t necessarily get to on my own. She’s a catalyst for deep exploration of self and integrative thought coupled with unique layers of pragmatic wisdom that only someone with her background can lend. It’s a joy to partner with her in my journey - perhaps because in part, I feel as much a part of hers.”
“I am glad to have had the opportunity and fortune to work closely with you. Thank you for your leadership, wisdom and for inspiring me all the way. You have a beautiful blend of grit and grace.”
“Jade strives to make every place she visits to be a better place. That is how she approaches every project. What she leaves behind is always better than the condition she found it in.”
“Your leadership, coupled with your kind, caring and encouraging personality was the real catalyst inside each one of us. It caused a reaction that made us feel empowered agents of positive change. ”
I never thought that the life I currently have was possible.
I was born in Vietnam. My parents divorced when I was three years old, and I was given to my grandmother to raise. In 1975 when I was eight, my mother and I left Vietnam with nothing but the clothes on our bodies. We lived in refugee camps in Korea and Arkansas before a church in Catasaqua PA sponsored us and gave us a new life.
Left mostly on my own, I directed all of my energy into fitting in and excelling at school. I got straight A’s in all of my classes and became class president. My achievements got lots of notice, and I won numerous awards including full scholarships to Lehigh and Stanford universities. These early days taught me that to get love and attention, I must work hard and be the best.
Like anyone who’s grown up with instability, I always made the safe choice. The question of “what do you want to be when you grow up?” never entered my world. Work was a way to achieve, make money and to survive.
Not only did I survive, I seemingly thrived. I climbed the corporate ladder and became one of the top executives at IBM. I also created a family that I never had. With everything I ever wanted, I did not understand why I felt restless, a yearning for something more.
Then a major family crisis happened and it rocked me to my core. Among the many things that I learned from this experience was that even though it had been more than 20 years since I was that little girl on a refugee boat, I still lived as though danger was around the corner–always hypervigilant and afraid to take risks.
After this crisis, I began to slowly re-architect my life. I went on a journey to really know myself–what unique capabilities do I have to offer the world? What work enlivens me? What matters most to me? Eventually, I left IBM.
Today, I am the Co-Founder and CEO of a startup with a mission that is near and dear to my heart while advising pioneering organizations and coaching high achievers to architect a life that integrates what matters most; I live in Katonah with my husband, two beautiful daughters and a rescue dog and a cat. My life is full; it’s messy and full of uncertainties. And I am the happiest that I’ve ever been.
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