• BBA in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin

• M.S in Counseling Psychology from the University of North Texas

Additional trainings and certifications include:

• INVITAS: Conversational Leadership by David Whyte, poet-philosopher, business consultant

• Myers Briggs Type Indicator

• Dialogue and Dynamic Dialogue (currently known as Crucial Conversations)

• The Immunity to Change discovery process (Robert Kegan, Chair of Adult Development at Harvard University and Lisa Lahey)

• Appreciative Inquiry

• Strozzi Embodied Leadership and Somatic Coaching

• Process-Oriented Psychology’s World Work

• 3 Vital Questions and The Power of TED

• VISIONS (a personal approach to multiculturalism)

• Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy

Nancy has also authored her own methodology Courageous Change and Essential Conversations. She created and taught a 21st Century Leadership course for the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and served as a founding faculty member and originator for the Change Leadership section of the Leadership Certificate Program offered by Southern Methodist University and The Center for Non-profit Management.

In addition to her degree, her business background includes experience with a large public accounting firm, a financial software company, a variety of Fortune 500 companies, as well as healthcare systems and hospitals. Her training and study in psychology, beyond her MS in Counseling Psychology, includes Depth Psychology (in particular Carl Jung and James Hollis), David Whyte’s Invitas Conversational leadership,  the research of neuroscientists such as Daniel Siegel, Richard Davidson, and Rick Hanson, and Robert Kegan’s Adult Development and Immunity to Change Theory (Harvard University).

Nancy brings together ideas and tools from disparate discourses. Weaving together the work of psychologists and poets as well as the groundbreaking research of neuroscientists and trauma experts, she creates pathways to transformation that are simultaneously psychological, spiritual, and scientific.