It may be counter-intuitive to think of a personal relationship as being similar to a team in the workplace. But this insight—gained from a decade of running divisions, serving as Chief of Staff to leadership teams, and working with couples—has the power to unlock stuck relationships.

In relationships, people come together to achieve something neither could achieve on their own: whether that is building a family, creating financial stability, or finding deep companionship, to name a few. Just like all teams that come together to do great things, people in relationships can get tripped up by the complexity that emerges when different people come together to execute on shared goals.

Some of the things that can trip people up in relationships are:

• The Purpose Gap: A lack of awareness regarding why you came together or having different definitions of what "success" looks like for the relationship.

• Trust Friction: Resentment that builds from differences in personalities, values, or life experiences that haven't been calibrated.

• The Governance Gap: The unique lack of clarity that exists in relationships around power, decision-making, and "ownership" of different parts of life.

• The Conflict Trap: A lack of skill in navigating healthy debate, leading to either total avoidance or destructive "ruptures" without the tools for repair.

• Operational Silence: A breakdown in the ability to identify and communicate needs, leaving both partners feeling isolated despite being on the same "team."

I support couples in identifying exactly where they are getting tripped up and how to repair the distance that has emerged. We treat your relationship as a high-performing team, building the skills and structures needed to take on life’s challenges together. My goal is to help you realign so that you can finally get what you were looking for from the relationship in the first place.