21st of 31 Children.
Resilience
Forged Early.
Where Resilience Began
Born the 21st of 31 children in the Ivory Coast, West Africa. Resilience was not learned in a program — it was survival. You figured out how to hold your own, or you disappeared.
"I didn't learn resilience in a leadership program. I learned it as the 21st of 31 children — where you either figured out how to hold your own, or you disappeared."
The Rise
25+ years in Telecommunications and Healthcare. Master of Electrical Engineering. MBA. A systems thinker to the core — every challenge was a circuit to be solved.
Rose to Director at McKesson, a Fortune 10 company — earning the President's Award, reserved for the top 0.3% of employees globally. On paper, she had made it.
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Then the high-performance script broke her.
The Crash
Confidence eroded. Judgment suffered. Decisions grew slower. Still performing — but becoming a systems liability no dashboard could measure.
High cholesterol. High blood pressure. Weight gain. Acid reflux. Depression. Impostor syndrome — silently battled for years while keeping up every appearance of success. At her lowest, haunted by suicidal thoughts.
"Successful on paper. Collapsing in private." The defining experience your audience already knows — but has never said out loud.
Then she made a choice.
The Rebuild
What she discovered: burnout is not an energy problem. It's a regulation problem. High performance without regulation becomes self-destruction.
She didn't find the solution in a textbook. She built the E.L.M. Tree Protocol™ from the wreckage of her own recovery — leveraging the three pillars she had known since childhood but sacrificed on the altar of high performance.
Three pillars. One integrated system. Most leaders manage one. Few integrate all three.
The E.L.M. Tree Protocol™ treats burnout as a systems failure, not a personal weakness.
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Helping high-performing leaders recognize the early signals she missed — before capacity erosion becomes identity collapse.
She doesn't speak about burnout from the outside. She speaks from lived experience — as someone who broke at the Fortune 10 level and rebuilt the system without shortcuts.
"If this happened to a Fortune 10 Director with an engineering mind and an MBA, what's happening to the high achievers right now?"