Award-Winning Educator; Instructional Coach; Speaker, Top Youth Speakers; Creator of an Award-Winning Positive Psychology Program, which received a Michigan Association of School Administrators’ “Winner’s Circle Award” and teaches concepts of positive emotion, engagement, meaning, and accomplishment to hundreds of students each year, especially at-risk high schoolers; Winner of multiple honors, including "Michigan Teacher of the Year" nominee and an Allegan County “Outstanding People for Education” recipient; Author, Illuminating the Way: The School Leader's Guide to Addressing and Preventing Teacher Burnout (2023) and The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again (2019)