About Whitney

Whitney is a strategic partner to creative leaders and teams in technology, education, and the arts. As the founder and principal of Vicarious Partners, a Certified B Corporation, she serves CEOs and executive directors, heads of product and design, and boards of directors internationally through corporate and private engagements.

Whitney’s work in leadership coaching, organizational design, governance, mediation, and culture change is grounded in thoughtful research and strategy, informed by her background in user experience. She helps people identify the assumptions, patterns, narratives, and systems that limit progress for their organizations and themselves, then redesign how they lead so they can create what hasn’t been possible before.

Her longest-running client relationship is with Pace University. For 10 years she has coached dozens of senior administrators, faculty, and staff in the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and more recently in the Office of the Provost, guiding operational and cultural overhauls in anticipation of profound shifts in higher ed and tech.

Previously, Whitney was known for her work as a UX consultant with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Foundation Center, Seamless, Boxee, and WNYC. She is named as a co-inventor on a U.S. patent with American Express.

Whitney is a two-time graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, with a Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction and a Bachelor’s in Professional Writing and HCI. She is a Certified Integral Coach through New Ventures West, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, and has extensive training in Nonviolent Communication.

A native Manhattanite, Whitney lives in the coastal town of Falmouth, Maine (Wabanaki Territory), with her husband, Fredrick. She serves on the board of directors of the Indigo Arts Alliance and the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust, mentors entrepreneurs at the Roux Institute, and is a founding member of the Jewish Community Relations Council. Her evenings and weekends are spent exploring the beaches, trails, farm stands, cultural events, and community that make Maine the way life should be.

       

Timeline & Credentials

• Joined Board of Directors of the Indigo Arts Alliance (2026)
• Founding member of the Jewish Community Relations Council’s Intercultural Corps of Maine (2025)
• Mentor for entrepreneurship programs at Roux Institute of Northeastern University (2025)
• Acts of Reparations Circle of Practice cohort (2025)
• Recertified as Certified B Corporation by B Lab (2024)
• Land Trust Alliance’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Peer Program for Land Trusts in Northern New England cohort (2024)
• Money Management Essentials course completion with the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE) (2023)
• Joined Board of Directors of the Cape Elizabeth Land Trust (2023)
• Certified Zentangle Teacher with Zentangle, Inc. (2021)
• Integral Team Coaching training at New Ventures West (2020)
• Nonviolent Communication International Intensive Training with the Center for Nonviolent Communication (2020)
• The Wisdom of the Enneagram training at The Maine Enneagram Center for Transformation & Well Being (2019)
• Reiki 1 Certification with Kristine Keegan at Arcana Maine (2019)
• Incorporated as Public Benefit Corporation (2018)
• Certified B Corporation by B Lab (2018)
• Facilitative Mediation training at New York Peace Institute (2017)
• Nonviolent Communication training at NVC Boston’s NY Intensive (2015, 2016)
• Professional Certified Coach credentialed by the International Coach Federation (2015)
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindful Self-Compassion training at UCSD Center for Mindfulness (2014-2015)
• Certified Integral Coach through New Ventures West (2013-2014)
• Certified Social & Emotional Intelligence Coach through the ISEI (2013)
• Launched Pleasure & Pain (2008)
• Established Limited Liability Company (2005)
• Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University (2004)
• Bachelor’s in Professional Writing and HCI from Carnegie Mellon University (2004)

Styles & Strengths

• Enneagram: 8 with a 7-wing (The Challenger, The Maverick)
• Myers–Briggs: ENFJ (The Protagonist, The Teacher, The Giver)
• DiSC: D/i (Inspirational, Assertive)
• CliftonStrengths:
1. Activator – one who gets things started
2. Maximizer – one who pursues excellence
3. Futuristic – one who inspires with a hopeful vision
4. Strategic – one who sees the best route
5. Relator – one who is comfortable with intimacy
• Fascination Advantage: The Maestro (Power + Prestige — ambitious, focused, confident)
• Conflict Style: Collaborating (you win, I win)
• Love Language: Quality Time (undivided attention)
• Cancer sun, Pisces moon, Scorpio rising