// For producers, editors, and podcast hostsI explain what's actually happening at work — not the version organizations want you to believe.
Hiring is not purely merit. Promotions are not purely performance. Layoffs are not strategic realignments. I've spent 20 years inside these systems and I say, clearly, what most people in this space won't.
I'm available for podcast interviews, radio commentary, written contributions, and on-air segments. I don't need much prep and I don't give safe answers.
// Topics I coverWhy the most qualified candidate doesn't get the job
The gap between how hiring is described and how decisions are actually made.
When career advice stops working
Standard guidance network more, be authentic, show your value — was written for a specific kind of person in a specific kind of system. I explain who it leaves out.
Return-to-office, DEI, and workplace power
Why so many workplace debates are really about control, not culture.
What layoffs really look like from the inside
The language organizations use, how it gets shaped before it reaches the public, and what employees should actually be doing while they're busy writing LinkedIn posts.
The career cost of being an outsider
Race, gender, motherhood — and how institutions absorb or deflect people who don't fit the default.
Recent appearances
The globe and Mail — recurring career commentary
CBC Radio — recurring commentary on work and hiring systems
CBC News — commentary on DEI and workplace language
The Maritime Edit — feature, The Intersection of Black and White
Canadian HR Reporter — maternity leave and workplace policy
//Media BioI started in HR. I sat in the rooms where hiring decisions were made, where performance reviews were shaped, where layoffs were planned and then carefully reworded before anyone outside the building heard about them.
I saw the gap between how organizations describe their decisions and how those decisions actually get made. I watched people get passed over for reasons that had nothing to do with their performance. I watched advice that works well for some people fail completely for others — not because of effort or mindset, but because of how the system was built and who it was built for.
That gap is what I write about.
Later I founded HireDiverse, which put me on the other side of those same conversations — working with organizations on hiring and equity, watching the same patterns play out at a structural level. Then I moved into academia, teaching communication and organizational decision-making, which gave me a different kind of language for what I'd already seen in practice.
I'm also a mother. And a mixed-Black woman. Those aren't footnotes — they're part of how I read workplace systems, and why some of what I write is personal as much as analytical.
// What this isI don't tell you to work harder or believe in yourself more.
I explain how the room was set up before you walked in.
// selected media// Based in Saint John, New BrunswickWriting about workplaces, and the systems that shape them.
//On Air and in printSpeaking and Commentary
I say the quiet part out loud. If you need someone who can explain — on air, online, or in the room — why the most qualified candidate didn't get the job, why return-to-office mandates are about control, or why common career advice fails the people who need it most, that's the conversation I'm built for.
// Why hiring decisions don't follow the rules
// Who career advice was actually written for
// What power looks like in modern organizations