​Her journey toward this work began long before the Emerald Tent. In 2001, while seven months pregnant and working as a marketing executive in San Francisco, Lori witnessed the events of 9/11 not only with her mind, but in her body. The overwhelming weight of human despair triggered early labor, and while medical care restored physical safety, something deeper emerged — a lifelong calling to practice radical kindness and to be with human suffering not as a problem to solve, but as something to accompany.

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This calling first found expression in Lori’s work in human connection and recruiting. In 2005, she founded igMedical, transforming traditional headhunting into a deeply relational practice centered on meaning, belonging, and care. Through years of listening to professionals navigating burnout, loss, and uncertainty, Lori came to understand that people do not only need jobs — they need a way back to themselves.

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Out of this understanding, Career Ecology was born — a holistic approach to career transition as a rite of passage into wholeness, integrating story, nervous system awareness, and authentic presence. Lori holds a degree in Psychology from UCLA, certifications in the Nurtured Heart Approach and Wild Soul Facilitation, and more than twenty years of experience guiding individuals through moments of profound change.

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Across all of her work, a set of core insights has remained steady: meaning emerges through connection rather than performance; healing begins with presence rather than persuasion; and the body carries its own wisdom when given a listening field.

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The Emerald Tent grew from this same understanding — a recognition that people need spaces held with integrity, nervous system awareness, and quiet care, especially during times of grief, anxiety, and transition.

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Lori brings to the Emerald Tent not a posture of mastery, but of stewardship. Her work is shaped by lived experience, deep listening, and an enduring trust in the human capacity to move through difficulty toward aliveness.