Hello. I am a designer, art director and professional coach. I have been designing for the web for over 25 years, starting with building small sites for myself and then large-scale sites for companies like Tiffany & Co. and Barneys New York. I have seen it all — running my own design studio, leading agencies and teaching students.

Today, my mission is to support other designers and creative leaders through professional coaching and mentoring. I believe in the power of personal transformation, having experienced it myself. And for 20 years, I have been an advocate for social change through design.

I am completing International Coaching Federation Level 2 Accreditation through an intensive coaching program at Concordia University in Montréal.

I founded design studio Manoverboard and ran the company successfully for 20 years before it was acquired in 2023 by Mangrove Web, a digital agency based in California. Manoverboard was a purpose-driven studio with a mission of creating a better world by design. I designed or art directed hundreds of websites and visual identities. The studio was the first Certified B Corporation in Manitoba with clientele from across North America (some of whom are below.)

I also founded, along with five other agencies, a scholarship program for design students of color called the MB Studio Fund. I regularly mentor design students and serve as a judge in competitions with RGD, the largest design association in Canada, where I also serve on the board of directors. I taught design studio, design history, theory and management at the School of Art at the University of Manitoba and at Red River College in Winnipeg.

What else? My newsletter, called Dear Designer, a love letter to designers who are struggling, those who are searching, those who seek change and those who still want to create something remarkable, new and different.

I created one of the more popular Lorem Ipsum text websites called Lorem 2. I also run TypeQuote, a site featuring a daily inspirational quote.

I graduated from Brown University with degrees in English and Visual Arts and I hold an M.F.A. from SUNY Albany. I live in Montréal, Québec, where I am learning French and loving my life there.