member of the "ImpactParents team of coaches"

I'm a recovering Tiger Mother and a work in progress. All my efforts to NOT be the tiger mother archetype I despised still turned me into a Tiger Mom, just one with different stripes. .

I am also a certified Personal Development & Leadership Coach & Facilitator. Many of my clients identify as Asian or Pacific Islander or women of color. Almost all my clients come from high-performance or high-pressure environments within their families, work, or communities. Learning to balance the energy that drives the achievement mindset at work with meeting the people they lead exactly where they are necessitates a dose of humility. The reality is, it's even more true for families. While we may have day jobs, our parenting job is 24/7, even long after the children have left the nest. And learning to put our egos aside and release our hold on their journey is the root of helping our kids thrive.

As a coach, I leverage my lived experience as a daughter of immigrants and the mother of an adopted daughter born in China in a multi-race family to provide a unique lens to parenting complex kids. Many of my clients are third-culture kids who balance their deep ethnic or ancestral identity with the context of their Western upbringing. We work to bridge that gap and integrate all sides of their identity to give voice to who they uniquely are.

My underlying energy is spent creating spaces of belonging and elevating leaders who people want to follow. I love being part of something that could change everyday life for many people. I have always been driven by what could be different and what could be better for anyone.