About Crystalline Currents

Welcome to Crystalline Currents — Where the wild rises, the work gets real, and leaders are built not born.

SJ is a leadership strategist, IT Program Manager, and executive coach known for her rare combination of grit, emotional intelligence, and delivery excellence. She is not a leader who was born with natural advantages—she is a leader who was built. Through adversity, competitive athletics, ranch-forged work ethic, trauma recovery, and years of navigating male-dominated industries, SJ shaped herself into a high-performance professional who now teaches others how to do the same.

Her leadership foundation began early as a multisport varsity athlete—volleyball, basketball, and track—where she learned discipline, teamwork, pressure management, and what it means to show up with integrity when the stakes are high. These experiences taught her how to hold herself to a standard, navigate tough conversations with clarity, and excel in competitive environments—skills that later anchored her leadership style in the corporate world.

But her deepest leadership roots were formed long before sports.
They were built on a ranch.

Raised in nature, surrounded by horses, cattle, and wide-open spaces, SJ learned lessons most people never encounter in a lifetime. She learned resilience from early mornings and long days. She learned responsibility from animals that depended on her. She learned presence from training horses—where leadership is based not on force, but clarity, trust, and energy. She learned compassion from tending to livestock through every season of life and loss. And she learned grounded strength from the land itself—where excuses don’t work, nature always has the final say, and integrity is a daily practice.

Those experiences shaped her into a leader who is steady under pressure, emotionally intelligent, resilient, and deeply human.

But SJ’s story also holds profound personal transformation. After surviving sexual assault in her youth, she dissociated from her physical body and gained more than 150 pounds as a subconscious form of protection. Through years of healing, personal development, and deep inner work, she has reclaimed her relationship with her body, her confidence, and her identity. Today, she brings that same strength and compassion to her leadership development work—helping others rebuild themselves with strategy, honesty, and self-respect.

Professionally, SJ has built a respected career as an IT Program Manager known for delivering complex, high-visibility initiatives with clarity, reliability, and excellence. She has earned the trust of senior leaders, engineers, and stakeholders through her ability to communicate, align teams, navigate conflict, and execute with precision. She has carved out her place in the technology world with a reputation for being dependable, delivery-focused, and grounded—an authentic leader who succeeds because she leads with both strength and heart.

Her philosophy is simple and powerful:
Leaders are built, not born.

Every skill—communication, influence, resilience, executive presence, emotional awareness, and boundary-setting—is learnable. SJ mentors high-achievers and emerging leaders to:

• Develop unshakeable confidence and self-trust
   
• Strengthen executive presence through clarity and emotional maturity
   
• Navigate difficult conversations with integrity
   
• Lead with grounded resilience during pressure and change
   
• Build leadership habits that last
   
• Rise in their careers without sacrifice or burnout
   
• Integrate all parts of themselves—not just the polished ones—to become whole, authentic leaders
   

Her message is grounded in lived experience, not theory:

You don’t have to come from privilege to become an exceptional leader.
You don’t have to choose between career and life, motherhood and ambition, softness and strength.
You can be built—intentionally, strategically, and powerfully.
And you can rise without losing yourself.

SJ now integrates her ranch-born wisdom, athletic discipline, corporate leadership expertise, trauma-informed perspective, and human behavioral insight to help professionals lead with clarity, confidence, and deeply grounded power.

With fire, fierce grace & universal blessings,
SJ