A professional life and leadership coach since 2020, Courtney has a background in higher education and the music industry. She is dedicated to empowering men and women to overcome limiting beliefs and adopt healthier mindsets. Over the last two decades, she has been helping colleagues, clients and college students, achieve personal and professional success through finding their voice and embracing leadership.
She knows what it is like to experience divorce, single parenthood, losing loved ones to cancer, anxiety, depression, anorexia and the hard cycle of enabling alcoholic, addictive behaviors of others.
Courtney partners with her coaching clients so that they have more clarity, purpose and insights to bravely take their next steps forward. A graduate of the CFJ Coaching Success School, she received an M.A. in Arts administration from Indiana University, and a B.S. degree in Marketing from Miami University of Ohio.
Professional Praise
Recent Articles
"How to Turn a No Into a Yes"
Elephant Journal
An interview with Courtney from 2022
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Tenured Faculty Member/Director of Music Business, Western Illinois University
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Top 10 Music Professors Who Inspire Us: http://www.collegemagazine.com/top-10-music-professors-inspire-us/
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2017 College of Fine Arts and Communication Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Western Illinois University
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Co-founded award-winning iparent magazine with Tamara La Prad. 501(c)3 Mission: to educate and inform parents.
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Twice attendee for Ready to Run®, a national network of non-partisan campaign training programs (based at Rutgers University) committed to electing more women to public office.
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Published in Journal of Popular Music Studies, Rock Music Studies/Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, College Music Symposium, Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association - Summit Proceedings
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Member of College Music Society (CMS), Music Entertainment and Industry Educators Association (MEIEA), Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE)