I help people connect without the cringe.

How I ended up here

After sitting through dozens of networking trainings, I kept wondering why so few of them led to real, meaningful connections. Across both the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds, person after person told me the same thing: networking felt awkward, painful, and wasn't actually growing their business.

After years of studying, attending, and hosting my own events, it clicked: most networking advice tells you to "be authentic" — then hands you scripts and frameworks that force you to be anything but yourself. Worse, it tells everyone to "be more extroverted," even though half the population is introverted. How can a training tell people to be themselves while devaluing who they are?

So I built Non-Cringey Networking. The best things in my life have come from networking — just never the way the old, tired programs taught it. I researched what actually helps both introverts and extroverts succeed authentically, making deep connections that genuinely advanced their lives and careers.

Now I help organizations, groups, and leaders around the world redefine how they approach networking. After a session, extroverts walk away emboldened with new strategies and listening techniques. And introverts? They often tell me it was the first time they ever enjoyed networking — and the first time they're actually looking forward to it.