My career has been all about helping people improve their health and I’ve been lucky to work on this every day for the past 20 years. As a Director at Institute for the Future, I studied the effect of consumer behavior, technological innovation and information technology on health and healthcare. Wanting a more applied role, I built disease management coaching programs at LifeMasters and StayWell. In program development, I learned as much as I could about behavior change, motivation and the importance of respecting one’s values to help make changes stick. These past 5 years at Jiff and Castlight Health, I’ve been translating my work to new digital health platforms for employers.

I’ve long been motivated by big, complicated problems and being in the service of others. The state of the art in healthcare delivery doesn’t do a good job of helping people make changes that stick. The adventure of Motiv8 is attacking this head on.

In my free time, I dance and sing as much as possible with my kids and try to help with homework when appropriate.