I became an executive coach in 2011 to help the founding teams of my startup clients realize their full leadership potential. Over the next decade, I transitioned out of corporate law into executive coaching and strategic consulting. I also became an adjunct executive coach with the Center for Creative Leadership where I have coached executives since 2016.

Prior to starting the Center for Global Consciousness in 2017, I co-founded Chrysallis, a behavior change company, in 2010 (acquired by Aduro in 2016). I also founded Startworks Ventures, a benefit capital firm that provided seed capital to new businesses in the emergent sustainable economy from 2007 to 2021.

In my career as a corporate lawyer, I founded Montgomery & Hansen, a prominent Silicon Valley corporate law firm (now M&H, LLP). I also founded Lex Ultima, PC, which provided legal services to benefit corporations until I retired from the practice of corporate law at the end of 2021. I served as a co-chair of the legal working group behind California’s historic benefit-corporation legislation and was a leading authority on this new corporate form. I was a co-founding director and President of the Benefit Company Bar Association, co-founding director and Secretary of the Conscious Leadership Guild, and co-founding director of the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers. 

I also served on the advisory boards of B Lab Europe, Reporting 3.0, Vista Caballo, Epoch Pi, and Trimergence to help develop new approaches to capitalism and leadership. I previously served as a member of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar and was a Governance Fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors. 

I was also a partner with NOW Partners, a global management consulting firm dedicated to creating a regenerative economy, and co-authored Net Zero Business Models: Winning in the Global Net Zero Economy in 2023.

I hold a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership from the University of Redlands, a J.D. from Northwestern College of Law, Lewis & Clark College, and a B.A. in Studio Art from Stanford University. I still paint and love open water swimming in Tomales Bay. I am also an Italian citizen and enjoy reading gialli.