Who Am I?
My path
I’m a humanitarian worker and a humanist. I’m also a coach (ACC certified), speaker, and problem solver (PMP certified) who believes that choosing humanity in how we lead, live, and collaborate is a radical act of hope.
Over the past 15 years, I’ve worked in war zones, epidemics, and natural disaster responses. These experiences shaped how I see the world and how I lead. I bring field-tested insights and a deeply human lens to some of the most urgent challenges of our time.
My leadership style lives at the intersection of ethical decision-making, emotional resilience, and personal growth. I offer practical tools to navigate complexity without losing sight of what matters most.
I write and speak to bridge worlds — from emergency response to self-development and to remind us that discovering our shared humanity is not only possible, but essential.
Where it started
My first humanitarian mission was in Niger, with Médecins Sans Frontières. I was sent to a small village called Bouza during a famine to help open a nutrition project. Our goal was simple but urgent: provide therapeutic food to children suffering from severe malnutrition.
I arrived with two Nigerian colleagues, Badamassi and Aladji. I felt completely overwhelmed. I didn’t know where to begin, what to prioritize, or how to navigate the complex reality on the ground. So I started by asking questions to my colleagues, to the parents bringing their children to the clinic, to people in the street. I asked anyone who could help me understand what the community truly needed.
Believe it or not, that wasn’t the norm. Many expatriate aid workers came with answers instead of questions with prepackaged solutions instead of a mindset of listening and co-creating. I was lucky to be surrounded by people I could trust, and together we built something that worked. That experience left me with a lesson I’ve carried ever since: being an enabler of solutions is more powerful than bringing your own.
Since then, I’ve worked in over 30 countries, in some of the most difficult and complex crises of our time. I’ve been deployed to war zones, cholera outbreaks, and the front lines of global epidemics. I was part of the Ebola response in West Africa, where the crisis was so devastating that some communities no longer had space in their cemeteries for loved ones lost to the disease. I worked in Syria during the war, where a mortar strike hit a taxi just outside my office, killing three people. In Haiti, I supported a cholera treatment center during a devastating outbreak one sparked by the very peacekeepers who were meant to protect the population.
These experiences shaped not just my career, but my worldview. They taught me that humanity isn’t just something we bring to our work it’s the reason we do it in the first place.
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