Some more about me
I admit, I’m a sucker for patterns. Ever since I can remember, patterns presented themselves everywhere I looked. I found predictable rhythms all around us—humans included. My need to make sense of people, the world, and the universe made me an insatiable learner.
For my PhD, I chose epidemiology that allowed me to translate qualitative observations into quantitative, statistical data on my clients’ behavioural patterns. Curious, irrational, yet uncannily predictable.
But epidemiology and science couldn’t answer all my questions. So I dabbled in psychology, quantum theory, medicine, string theory, fractals, education, economic models, business, anthropology, philosophy, spirituality, energy healing, and every other scientific and metaphysical area that held the promise of expanding my understanding of life.
Recurring patterns were everywhere, crossing lines between animate and inanimate, physical and psychological, scientific and spiritual. I have learned that even chaos exhibits patterns, and an elaborate physical and ethereal tapestry connects everything and everyone.
It had occurred to me people displayed nearly identical behavioural patterns at any scale, be it as individuals, family members, partners, sports fans, students in the schoolyard, corporate employees, or prisoners of war in death camps.
That’s when the Cone pattern had revealed itself to me. Incredibly consistent, relentless, and destructive. Suddenly, wherever I looked, there it was in every area of our lives and on every scale.
Despite our differences, we all experience the same basic fears, needs, fragilities, pains, desires, hopes, and joys, something that is also known as the human condition. It is from this understanding and lifelong observations that I have developed the Cone Model©—a recurring pattern that explains how and why we start with brilliant solutions to our problems yet end up with controlling and destructive life systems.
My mission
I am here to help ignite a global awakening by empowering people to rise into their inner light and collectively catalyze the tipping point of conscious transformation.
Women, children, and youth hold a particular place in this mission. When they rise, they don't rise alone. Families rise. Communities rise. The systems around them start to shift too.
Everything I build, the book, the courses, the programs, is in service of that one mission. Right now, that mission takes shape in three areas.
1. The Book, and beyond
My first step was to write a book about the Cone Model and reach out with it to the world in as many ways as possible to spread the word.
Since then, the writing hasn't stopped. I wrote Bottled, an illustrated allegory that translates the Cone concept for young readers, along with a parent's guide to help families explore it together. And, just for the fun of it, I wrote a psychological thriller too. Not everything I write has to carry the weight of the mission. Some of it is simply the joy of telling a good story.
2. Building a Life in Canada
My second step was to develop a course series that helps integrate newcomers to Canada in the fastest and best way possible. My goal is to help immigrants and refugees gain a sense of home in their new country, and to support local communities in effectively welcoming this incredible human wealth.
3. Bringing the Cone Model into practice
The Cone Model isn't only a book. It's a living framework people and organizations can use directly.
Cone Self-Exploration Program: A guided personal journey through the Cone Model. Participants map their own vulnerabilities, core certainties, and Cone indicators, and leave with a concrete action plan for real change.
Organizational Cone Exploration Program: The same framework applied to teams and institutions. It helps organizations see where control patterns have taken root, and gives them a path to rebuild healthier, more open systems.
Keynote: A talk that brings the Cone Model to a wider audience. It names the pattern, shows why it matters, and points a room full of people toward breaking free of it.
This is how the Cone Model moves from idea to practice. One person. One team. One room at a time.