Hello, I'm Casey.
Founder of The Purpose Lab
Executive Coach • Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker • Speaker
I help accomplished professionals and leadership teams navigate the questions that success alone cannot answer.
My work sits at the intersection of psychology, leadership, and purpose. I partner with executives, founders, physicians, entrepreneurs, leadership teams, and mid-career professionals who want to think more intentionally about how they lead, how they work, and ultimately, how they want to live.
Through executive coaching, leadership development, facilitation, and psychotherapy, I help individuals and teams navigate complexity, strengthen relationships, build resilient cultures, and make decisions that are aligned with what matters most.
Before founding The Purpose Lab, I spent more than a decade leading strategy and growth for a national education organization, helping scale its impact to nearly two million students annually. I partnered with executive teams, superintendents, and organizational leaders across the country to design cultures where people felt connected, engaged, and motivated by a shared sense of purpose.
That experience reinforced something I continue to see in my work today: external success does not necessarily translate into internal fulfillment. The most accomplished leaders are often asking the biggest questions—not simply how to achieve more, but how to build lives and organizations that are meaningful, sustainable, and deeply aligned with their values.
My work combines evidence-based psychology, leadership development, and strategic coaching. Clients often come to me during periods of growth, transition, uncertainty, or reinvention. Some are stepping into executive leadership. Others are recovering from burnout, navigating grief, or questioning careers they once loved. Many are asking a version of the same question:
What does it look like to build a life that feels as meaningful as it is successful?
The same is true for organizations.
Increasingly, companies recognize that high-performing teams are not built on strategy alone. They are built through trust, psychological safety, shared purpose, and leaders who know how to create environments where people can do their best work. I work with executive teams to strengthen leadership, improve collaboration, navigate change, and build cultures where both people and performance can thrive.
My work is grounded in research. I studied alongside Dr. Shane Lopez and under Dr. Rick Snyder, pioneers of Positive Psychology and Hope Theory, and contributed to research exploring the relationship between hope, purpose, and well-being. That scientific foundation continues to inform everything we do at The Purpose Lab.
Alongside my coaching and clinical practice, I taught Navigating Your Life on Purpose at Brown University, guiding students through questions of identity, vocation, and meaningful work. Whether I'm working with a college senior, a Fortune 500 executive, or a leadership team shaping the future of an organization, I've found that the underlying questions remain remarkably consistent. We all want our lives—and our work—to reflect what matters most.
I don't believe meaningful change comes from having better answers.
It comes from asking better questions.
My role is to create the space, challenge assumptions, integrate evidence, and help people and organizations make decisions that are aligned not only with where they are today, but with the future they hope to create.
Because success is worth pursuing.
A life, and a career, of meaning, purpose, and contribution is what makes it worth having.
I'm endlessly fascinated by what helps people come alive. That's the work I get to do every day, and I can't imagine anything more meaningful.
