Hi, I am Toni.
Designer. Author. Coach. Connector.
I believe we can design our lives instead of simply letting life happen to us.
Our lives are shaped by what we choose to build, nurture, change, and make room for.
Love. Live. Design. These words remind me to honor who I am, where I’ve been, and who I’m becoming.
I’ve Been Designing for a Long Time
Long before I had language for it, I was designing.
I was the girl imagining possibilities. Later, I studied, wrote, worked in homes, built programs, created experiences, coached women, and told stories. For years, those things felt like separate chapters in my life.
Now I see the thread.
I’ve always been interested in what makes people feel at home…in a room, in a relationship, in a story, and ultimately, in their own lives.
That is the heart behind my work today.
The Work Has Taken Many Forms
Designer — I design experiences, ideas, spaces, and possibilities.
Author — I write stories about relationships, identity, faith, and becoming.
Coach — I create space for women to imagine and design what they want to build next.
Connector — I bring people, ideas, and conversations together in ways that strengthen relationships.
What I Bring With Me
My approach is personal, practical, and grounded in both lived experience and professional practice. With a background in journalism and graduate study in higher education, I've spent much of my career exploring how stories, relationships, learning, and thoughtfully designed experiences can shape what people believe is possible.
I believe meaningful change begins with curiosity: Where am I now? What matters to me? What might be possible? From there, we can imagine, experiment, learn, and intentionally design what comes next.
My work has taken many forms—writing, coaching, mentoring, facilitation, program design, and creating spaces for meaningful conversation. The setting may change, but the intention remains the same: to create room for people to discover what they already carry and consider what they want to build from here.
Ready to design what comes next?
You don’t have to have everything figured out. Sometimes you just need space to think, imagine what’s possible, and decide what you want to build next.