About

Jodie partners with people who want to evolve themselves to transform the world – people who are courageous enough to shape the future.

She’s an innovator with thirty-plus years in wide-ranging roles as an executive, strategist, producer, coach, facilitator, technologist, and board member.

Jodie seeds cultures where diverse teams can meet complexity, grow leadership, align talents, center dignity, and create powerful efforts that transcend imagination and expectation.

She brings joy, freedom, and flow, uncovering light amidst hardship.

Jodie supports leaders to cultivate powerful ideas and breakthrough solutions that unlock the challenges of our times.

She collaborates with Black, Brown, and Indigenous leaders to advance their ideas and vision, particularly women of color, and queer and gender expansive people.

She helps White leaders to be brave and efficacious in their efforts to forward equity and dismantle oppression.

The ocean is Jodie’s sacred place. She is a surfer and an aspiring waterwoman, committed to fostering access to the ocean and its wonders.

Jodie is deepening her understanding and relationship to the kai (ocean) and ʻāina (land) and her own kuleana (responsibility) and purpose. It is her joy and privilege to volunteer and learn from Nā Kama Kai.

She’s completed Ocean Risk Technician, Surf Apnea + Rescue, ISA Surf Instructor, Lifeguarding, CPR, First Aid and PADI Scuba trainings.

Born in Canada, Jodie (she/her) is a White, queer woman and descendent of Romanian peasant farmers who settled on Lakota lands in southern Saskatchewan.

Raised in the rainforests, mountains and oceans of the Coast Salish peoples in British Columbia, in 2009 she migrated to the U.S., making home in Oakland, and then the South Bay of Los Angeles.

Jodie is grateful to now call Hawai'i home. She resides on the ʻāina (land, ‘that which feeds’) of the Kānaka Maoli on the Waiʻanae coast of O’ahu.

What People Are Saying…

  • Nicole Rycroft

    Founder + Executive Director, Canopy

    Jodie is a force of nature. Her compassionate and clear-sighted counsel has held me steady during turbulent times. She has been a spectacular sounding board as I’ve reached for the seemingly impossible. Her delightful irreverence makes even the most challenging issues fun. She is dextrous and savvy across a range of issues and navigates the ambiguity of systems change with confidence.

  • Darlene Nipper

    Chief Executive Officer, Rockwood Leadership Institute

    Jodie is true partner and important voice in our movements. Her work over the years has been in lockstep with hundreds of movement leaders.

  • Mary Le Nguyen

    Executive Director
    WA Community Action Network

    Collaborating with Jodie helped me realize my greatest growth as a leader so far. I felt powerful and supported. I could be real about what I was struggling with, trusting that we would share responsibility for how to do things better and differently. In the strategic spaces Jodie facilitated, I experienced generosity of time, resources, and learnings, showing me that we can design and operate in ways that are more powerful, inclusive and loving.

  • Amara Possian

    Canada Team Lead, 350.org

    I’m so lucky to have had Jodie in my life for over a decade, as a coach, thought partner, and dear friend. She has helped me grow into a powerful leader and every time we’ve tackled what initially seemed to be an insurmountable challenge, I’ve come away feeling grounded, resourced, and equipped with a strategy that is both rigorous and adaptable. Our collaborations aren’t just fruitful, they’re also joyful. With Jodie in your corner, everything becomes possible.

  • Mariana Silva

    Managing Director, adrienne maree brown Project

    Jodie’s confidence in me, support, mentorship and coaching has been a transformational experience. She helped me become a stronger leader, unafraid to bring my whole authentic self, as a queer Latina, into all spaces. She is a compassionate, caring, and brilliant coach that creates the conditions for you to be curious, explore, experiment and will challenge you to imagine bigger and wilder possibilities.

  • Dani McClain

    Journalist and Author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

    When I need to call upon the best minds I know to help me untangle some knot in work or life, Jodie is at the top of my list. She is a beloved friend, a trusted auntie to my child, and someone who I know is committed to creating a different and better world.