Working Wisely:

Find Freedom, Purpose, and Joy in the Now.

I guide organizations and individuals to work with intention, purpose, and awareness, building lives and cultures where success doesn't compromise values and every effort brings joy.

Find your Joy: Start the Conversation

What is Working Wisely?

Working Wisely is about living and leading so you can confidently say:

  1. I understand what I'm doing.

  2. I understand why I'm doing it.

  3. I understand who I'm doing it for.

  4. What I'm doing doesn't compromise my values.

  5. What I'm doing brings me joy.

You can be happy now.

You can be happy now.

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Organizational development

  • Strategic Capacity: Your Mission-Driven HR Partner

    For organizations committed to building courageous, compassionate cultures, we provide the necessary infrastructure. We act as an integrated partner, offering daily HR support and long-term strategy to maximize your people's potential. Whether it’s designing career growth plans, managing sensitive employee relations, or leading major change management, we stabilize your core operations so you can focus on purpose and personal development. We help you work wisely to achieve lasting change with integrity and reduced liability.

  • Workshops & Coaching: Transforming Friction into Joyful Performance

    Our coaching and workshops are dedicated to teaching you how to work wisely. We transfer essential skills—from mastering purpose-driven goal setting to using powerful coaching questions —that drive both individual development and organizational change. This systematic approach ensures your leaders can proactively manage conflict, champion well-being, and maintain the joyful sustainability necessary for long-term strategic success.

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Personal Development

  • Personal Alignment: Designing a Joyful Relationship with Work.

    Dedicated one-on-one sessions for leaders seeking to maximize their impact while protecting their well-being. We provide the expertise to define your true personal development path, coaching you to make intentional choices that replace burnout with joyful sustainability in your career and life.

  • Capacity Cohorts: Accelerating Growth Through Shared Experience.

    Join a supportive cohort of diverse professionals seeking similar breakthrough growth. Our group coaching focuses on strategic accountability and peer-to-peer insight, using powerful coaching questions to tackle common leadership challenges (like boundaries, conflict, and purpose alignment). This format transfers essential skills while leveraging external perspectives to accelerate individual development.

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Learning and Training

  • Free Wisdom: My Mission is Not to Gatekeep.

    We believe that the powerful strategies and insights we gather as coaches and consultants should be accessible to everyone. Our commitment to a purpose-driven culture means we pay it forward. Explore our Work Wise Podcast, resource guides, and quick-win articles—all designed to help you take intentional action today. Get the frameworks you need to improve your professional life, no strings attached.

  • Strategic Wisdom On-Demand: Reclaim Your Time and Joyfully Align Work & Life.

    Get the core, intentional frameworks from our workshops and coaching practice, available 24/7. These self-paced courses are designed for the professional who needs strategic wisdom right now to combat friction and burnout—not just at the office, but at home.

    We distill our unique Public Health and HR methodology into powerful, step-by-step digital training. Learn how to intentionally redefine your relationship with work, mastering techniques like purpose-driven goal setting and Unitasking for Focus to carve out time and energy for what truly matters. This is essential, on-demand capacity building for joyful sustainability across your professional career and your personal life.
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Workforce Development

  • Community Impact: Fostering Joyful Leaders Through Workforce Development.

    This program is where our commitment to community health comes full circle. Through activities focused on purpose, movement, and courageous communication, we empower youth to navigate their lives with resilience. This initiative allows organizations to directly fulfill their social impact goals while investing in the local community's well-being—ensuring that the next generation of employees knows how to live and work with sustainable joy and integrity.

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I’m so Glad you’re here.

My clients represent respected organizations.

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Tony C, Urban Initiatives

In a single sentence, Joy is an exceptional leader, coach, and thought partner. 

In reality, Joy is a presence. She has the rare ability to make others feel both seen and valued, creating spaces where people can thrive. Her leadership is not just about guiding teams, but about lifting individuals, building trust, and inspiring growth. Joy’s impact is felt in the lasting confidence and community she leaves with those fortunate enough to have worked alongside her. 

Joy has several (known) superpowers. She effortlessly makes people on her team feel heard, seen, and understood, all within the realm of work productivity. She empowers people to live and work as their authentic selves. As a coach, she listens to multi-directional rambling, and turns it into actionable steps that lead directly to personal and career growth and development. 

Gina L.

[Joy] has helped me learn how to find the balance between what people need me to be and who I naturally am.

[Joy] is a leader of people and for people in general. She is everything I value in a leader and is how I have been and will always continue to strive to be. Seeing her stand up for people is something special to witness. She has a wealth of experience and knowledge and the fact that she has chosen to share that with me is something I will always greatly treasure. My respect for Joy is endless and she would be a benefit to anyone's team, organization, or personal life.