Emily is a facilitator, coach, and organizational development consultant who helps mission-driven leaders and organizations move through change with purpose, resilience, and connection.

Most recently, Emily spent almost five years at KONU, a boutique leadership and organizational development firm, where she grew from Senior Associate to Engagement Manager to Associate Partner. There she coached executive teams, designed and facilitated leadership programs for clients ranging from small environmental nonprofits to state and federal government entities to Fortune 500 companies, and helped lead the firm’s marketing and business development. She remains an affiliate of KONU, which she credits with sharpening the way she blends systems leadership and adult development in her work.

Emily spent her early professional years in women’s and public health, leading change initiatives across more than 200 community-facing programs at a large public health institute. She went on to support individuals and groups across sectors: she led a successful $1.3 million capital campaign for a start-up community-owned grocery store, designed and facilitated multi-stakeholder visioning sessions for arts and community organizing groups, and offered leadership development programs for doctors, small business owners, and social services providers.

Emily is an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. She holds a master’s in organizational development and leadership from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where her capstone explored how applied improv can build psychological safety in groups and teams. She also holds a bachelor’s in anthropology from Tufts University and a certificate in applied positive psychology from The Flourishing Center.

A queer Jew with race and class privilege, Emily believes in and fights for a world rooted in interdependence and care. For years she was a member leader with Resource Generation, organizing for a solidarity economy. She served on the national Transformative Investing Principles committee and helped raise more than $600,000 for a local land trust building deeply affordable housing. Emily also taught community development and nonprofit management as an adjunct at Temple University, a role she hopes to return to once her kids are a little older. 

These days, she serves as the board president of Kids on 12th, a neurodiversity-affirming early childhood education center, and writes Meeting Matters, a newsletter about designing meetings that build the cultures and outcomes we actually want. Emily is also a trained postpartum doula, currently exploring becoming a lactation consultant. She lives in South Philadelphia with her partner and two young daughters.