Hey!
I'm Danielle.
I spent the first half of my life being good. Now I'm learning what's true.
During my early career in higher education, I told students their hard work would pay off and their degrees would lead to their dream jobs. I believed every word of it.
Then…I got laid off.
And I started asking questions I had somehow never thought to ask.
Not what did I do wrong — I’d done everything right, and so had most of the people I’d spent a decade advising. The questions were bigger and more uncomfortable than that:
Who decided the workday should look like this? Why do we treat burnout as a badge of honor? What exactly are we all working this hard toward, anyway?!
I’ve been chasing those questions ever since. Now I bring them to organizations wrestling with burnout, disengagement, and retention.
My signature keynote, The Workforce Is Unwell, doesn’t ask your people to be more resilient. It hands leaders three human-centered levers that drive intrinsic motivation.
Meet Danielle
Speaker & Future of Work Architect
AKA the Anti-Career Coach®
I’m a certified Life Design coach, from a class of the same name at Stanford University. It’s trained me to find and solve the right problems.
I’m not anti-work, anti-employer, or anti-manager. I’m against the idea that exhaustion is a personal failing, and that hard work is the solitary solution to systemic issues.
I live in South Jersey. I love to read books, I do 3D puzzles at the kitchen table, and I guard my own time as fiercely as I’m asking you to guard your people’s.
Did we just become best friends?
What I'm Loving
Slow mornings, black coffee, mocktails, book club, writing poetry, hot girl walks, tarot, fun earrings, dogs, 3D puzzles
What I'm Learning
Improv, resting without feeling guilty, how to do my hair and makeup, tapping into my intuition
What I'm Not About
Hustle culture, bigotry, billionaires, corporate jargon, small talk, bro marketing, multi-tasking
What I Believe
No job can ever fill the void of a half-lived life.
TEDxEustis, 2025