About | Clapp & Co.

My Story

I was creative from the beginning. I loved making things. I loved writing and design. I loved to dream. I was sensitive and quiet, empathetic by nature. I preferred the company of elders and the deep conversations we would have. I preferred to chart my own course and follow my own interests.

I always had a deep inner drive to be successful. I earned an MBA by twenty-four. I completed my design studies at RISD by twenty-seven. And I started my own firm at the height of the 2008 financial crisis. Everyone told me to find a job. To do what was safe. To seek security and consistency. Those words went against everything I believed.

The next decade brought far more success than I ever imagined. The business was thriving. I was working with notable clients around the world. The firm became synonymous with good design.

From the outside, I was the picture of success. The buildings, the cars, the art. Yet deep within, I was unhappy. I would wake up every day with a sinking feeling I could not explain. I felt I was living someone else’s life. My days were all the same: working from dawn to night on projects that no longer brought me joy, work I had lost my passion for long ago.

Deep in the night, I would wonder. Is this all there is? How can this possibly go on forever? Can I even begin again? I was questioning everything. My career, my purpose, the very foundation I had built my life on. I knew something had to change. I know now that this is what an inflection point feels like from the inside.

So the journey began. I immersed myself in human potential, presence, the inner dynamics of leadership. I trained as a coach and studied with some of the best. For the first time in years, I was not competing. I was creating from a different source entirely. And I began coaching leaders through transformations of their own.

Then I noticed something. Leaders would leave sessions transformed, then hit walls in organizations designed for who they used to be. And I had spent over a decade watching brilliant strategies fail from the other side, because they did not account for the people who had to carry them. Strategy without the leader. Coaching without the business. Each valuable but incomplete.

That insight became Clapp & Co. The integration of what is usually kept separate. And it shaped who the work is for. I partner with leaders and organizations at inflection points, because I have stood at one. We are always best positioned to help who we once were.

How I Work

I work with a small number of leaders and organizations at a time, from Dubai and Boston, with clients worldwide. Some of these partnerships are one-on-one, others are with a full leadership team, or reach across an entire organization. My team of associates are strategists, coaches, and facilitators I have worked with for years.