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About us

  Lead Star is a leadership development consulting firm with over a decade of experience working with talented leaders within Fortune 500 companies, small and mid-sized businesses, leading nonprofits, government agencies and respected academic institutions.

Lead Star is unique within the consulting and training spaces: all of our consultants and trainers are veterans who have impressive military, business and educational experiences. We believe true leadership has nothing to do with rank, status, or power. Lead Star defines a leader as someone who influences outcomes and inspires others. The more leaders present in an organization, the more results that organization will achieve.

Lead Star is headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area.

Lead Star

I created Lead Star because I'm passionate about helping others develop their leadership skills.  Through Lead Star, I facilitate strategy sessions, deliver leadership development and coaching programs, and co-lead the Lead Star Network - a coaching program designed for high-performing women leaders.



      National Writers Series
  

About us

  The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation preserves and promulgates the history, traditions and culture of the Marine Corps and educates all Americans in its virtues. The Foundation vigorously seeks financial support to provide continued leadership, strategic direction and financial oversight in supporting and expanding programs at the National Museum of the Marine Corps and beyond its walls.

To fulfill the mission, vision and goals for the continual development of the Marine Corps Heritage Center and completion of the National Museum of the Marine Corps, the Foundation fundraises and reaches out to government officials, philanthropists, educational foundations and other organizations and entities in order to preserve and propagate the history, traditions and culture of the Marine Corps.

Marine Corps Heritage Foundation

While at Merck, I worked on a specialty sales teams in North Carolina that provided me with a solid sales leadership background.


About us

  Merck is a leading global biopharmaceutical company that has been inventing for life for more than a century, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Through our prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies and animal health products, we work with customers and operate in more than 140 countries to deliver innovative health solutions. We also demonstrate our commitment to increasing access to health care through far-reaching policies, programs and partnerships. Today, Merck continues to be at the forefront of research to advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and communities around the world - including cancer, cardio-metabolic diseases, emerging animal diseases, Alzheimer’s disease and infectious diseases including HIV and Ebola. This site is intended for residents of the United States and its territories.  For more information, visit www.merck.com.

Merck

After I left active duty in the Marines, I landed a role with Pfizer as an entry-level sales professional in Los Angeles.  This was a tremendous opportunity to apply the leadership skills I acquired in the Marines to a new role.



      PFIZER
  

I served as Marine Corps officer in the Public Affairs field.  Through this role, I developed my leadership skills and worked with high-performing men and women I'm proud to call fellow Marines.



      United States Marine Corps
  

University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future.

Author at Lead Star

Lead Star

Author

Lead Star

Founding Partner

National Writers Series

Board Member

Marine Corps Heritage Foundation

Board Member

Merck

Specialty Representative

PFIZER

Pharmaceutical Sales Representative

United States Marine Corps

Public Affairs Officer

University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

University of Michigan

English

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)