For nearly 30 years, I advocated for clients on one side of a dispute, predominantly in personal injury, disability, and medical and professional negligence litigation. Now I work between the parties, as a neutral. That shift taught me something that now shapes everything I do: people make real progress when they feel heard, respected, and supported. My practice centres on creating the space for those conversations to happen.

I bring a wide range of legal and leadership experience to that work, together with a long-standing commitment to service and community. In 2017, I completed the Mediating Disputes program at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School – Harvard Negotiation Institute. In 2024, I earned my Mediation Certificate from the ADR Learning Institute. That training, combined with decades at the table, informs my approach to conflict: steady, thoughtful, trauma-aware, and grounded in both curiosity and clarity.

I serve as a neutral — independent, impartial, and committed to the fairness of the process rather than to any one outcome. I am a Qualified Mediator (Q.Med.) and a member of the ADR Institute of Ontario (ADRIO) and the ADR Institute of Canada (ADRIC).

Giving back to the profession and the broader community has always mattered to me. I have served as President of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, as a Governor of the American Association for Justice, as a Director of The Advocates' Society, and as Chair of the Share the Road Cycling Coalition. I've also served on the Board of Orchestra London and the Metropolitan Opera Foundation Board, and I speak regularly at continuing legal education programs across North America.

I bring this breadth of experience to my mediation and facilitation work, helping people navigate difficult conversations and move toward solutions that feel fair, practical, and respectful.

Outside of my professional life, I write fiction, read constantly, swim, cycle, and spend lots of time wandering the north shore of Lake Erie with my husband, Jason.