About Me
Hello, I’m Megan
Educator. Researcher. Coach. Lifelong learner. Fellow traveler.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by why people become who they become. Why do certain patterns repeat throughout our lives? What helps us move beyond them? And what allows some experiences to transform us while others leave us unchanged?
Those questions have shaped far more than my career. They have guided the books I’ve read, the places I’ve traveled, the conversations I’ve sought out, and the work I’ve chosen to pursue.
Like many people drawn to this field, my curiosity grew from lived experience. My life has included seasons of questioning, letting go of old assumptions, rebuilding, and discovering that growth is rarely about becoming someone new. More often, it is about seeing ourselves, and our lives, with greater honesty, awareness, and compassion.
My perspective has also been shaped by parenting, years of spiritual exploration, cross-cultural experiences, and service in nonprofit and educational settings, each offering a different lens through which to understand how people grow, connect, and create meaningful lives.
Today, those questions continue to guide my work as I pursue a doctorate in Transformational Leadership & Coaching. They shape how I teach, write, coach, and engage with the world, continually inviting me to explore what helps people flourish.
How I Explore Human Flourishing
My work is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach to understanding what helps people live well. I draw from psychology, coaching, systems thinking, education, leadership, and contemporary research because each offers valuable insights into how people learn, grow, and create meaningful change.
As my studies deepened, I found myself returning to questions that extended beyond any single discipline. I became increasingly interested in consciousness, not only as something we experience, but as the context through which we experience everything. If awareness shapes how we perceive ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us, what role does it play in how we grow?
That search eventually led me to the Vedic tradition. What drew me wasn’t simply its history or spiritual heritage, but its understanding of consciousness as a fundamental aspect of human experience that can be directly explored and systematically cultivated. I found in it a framework that complemented rather than replaced scientific inquiry, one that approaches subjective experience with the same spirit of disciplined exploration that science brings to the external world.
Rather than viewing science and the Vedic tradition as competing ways of understanding reality, I see them as complementary perspectives. Science helps us understand observable patterns, test ideas, and expand our knowledge of the world around us. The Vedic tradition offers a systematic way of exploring inner experience, the development of consciousness, and spirituality. Together, they provide a broader lens for exploring what it means to learn, lead, grow, and flourish.
This integrative perspective shapes how I coach, teach, write, and conduct research. I don’t believe meaningful growth comes from finding a single framework with all the answers. Instead, I believe lasting insight emerges when evidence, lived experience, reflection, and contemplative wisdom are brought into conversation. My work is an ongoing exploration of that conversation and the ways it can help us better understand ourselves, one another, and the conditions that support human flourishing.
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Training & Background
My perspective has been shaped by experiences in education, coaching, leadership, and ongoing academic research. Rather than following a single discipline, I’ve intentionally sought learning across fields that each contribute to a broader understanding of human development.
I hold a Bachelor of Science in Communication, Media, and Ethics and a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction. I am currently pursuing a Doctorate of Education in Transformational Leadership & Coaching at Maharishi International University, where my research explores the relationship between awareness, curiosity, leadership, and human flourishing.
Professionally, I’ve worked as an educator, curriculum designer, instructional coach, and learning guide, experiences that continually reinforce my belief that meaningful growth is about creating the conditions in which learning and transformation can emerge.
My coaching is grounded in the International Coaching Federation’s evidence-based competencies and informed by Emergence Coaching, an interdisciplinary methodology that integrates developmental psychology, systems thinking, existential philosophy, and contemporary understandings of human development. I am also a member of the Graduate School Alliance for Education in Coaching (GSAEC) and am working toward Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentialing through the International Coaching Federation.
Alongside my academic and professional work, I am a practicing member of the Hindu Temple of Oklahoma. The Vedic tradition gave me a framework for exploring many of the questions that had guided me for years, particularly those related to consciousness, human potential, and the nature of personal growth. Through study, meditation, puja (worship), seva (service), and participation in temple life, these questions continue to deepen, not simply as ideas to understand, but as practices to live. This lived tradition complements my academic work, offering another dimension through which to explore what it means to live with greater awareness, purpose, and compassion.
I continue to see all of these experiences, research, teaching, coaching, spiritual practice, and service, as different expressions of the same lifelong exploration: understanding what helps people live well.
