Who We Are

Hi that’s me!

I, like probably most people if asked, never planned to build a career in insurance. As a child, I wanted to be an actress or weather girl (or possibly a cowgirl, based on my crazy love of fashion as this cool hat demonstrates).

But life often presents us with other plans.

Shortly after graduating from Drexel, my dad encouraged me to purchase my first life insurance policy. Yep, a guy came to the house and we sat at the kitchen table on a Saturday morning, old school vibes. At the time, it felt like a practical, albeit, annoying rite of passage. Seven months later, after a sudden and bone crushing 30 day battle with Mesothelioma, my dad passed away at 65. Healthy to gone in a flash.

That devastating experience reshaped my understanding of what care means. My mom (and me) were left to care for my 3 younger sisters and my dad’s own life insurance policy made it possible to stay in our childhood home and for my mom, whom was disabled, to go on without him. What once felt abstract, not applicable to me & transactional became deeply personal. Protection and preparedness were no longer products. To me they were acts of love.

Fast forward a hot minute and I entered the voluntary benefits industry and built an award winning career, earning accolades along the way such as Rookie of the Year and eventually selling my consulting firm to Tompkins Bank, which became the prestigious firm of Gallagher and today I also lead partnerships at Wagmo. Yet what always underpinned my “why” were those early meaningful kitchen table conversations that I could see firsthand empowered, inspired and protected. In my career that became sitting across from employees during enrollment and helping them make decisions that would last and impact generationally.

Over time for me, a deeper question began to emerge. Why do so many organizations care deeply about their people, yet struggle to make that care felt?

The first iteration of this idea I had called The JoyCatchers™ began to answer that. Created in 2020 just as we all found ourselves drowning in the pandemic. It was born from grief and reflection, wanting to create a digital space to capture and archive joy and gratitude before “I wish I had said” becomes too late. The second iteration of Joy came in 2024, in The Yuletide Summit, bringing industry titans together to reimagine how open enrollment specifically could become more human, more empowering, and more meaningful.

Today, The JoyCatchers™ represents the culmination of those earlier chapters. It is a return to human centered leadership and a commitment to designing live & virtual experiences that reconnect people to purpose, to benefits, and to one another.

This is deeply personal to me. My work now sits at the intersection of care, culture, and belonging, especially in industries where technology investment has outpaced human connection. In a workforce facing rising loneliness, disengagement, and stress, I believe something simple and powerful-

When people feel seen, valued, and understood, everything changes. Literally everything!

And it begins with leadership that we all hold collectively.

As my son reminded me when he drew my JoyCatchers™ logo by hand at nine years old, if we join hands, we can meet any challenge head on, together, while my daughter sings and playfully moves throughout her day, she is a beacon for me to do the same.