Meaningful lives happen by design. I should know.

I grew up in Sierra Leone. It’s one of the poorest countries in the world, but my childhood was rich with love.

At seven years old, I learned that a life can change overnight. A group of rebels held my family and I at gunpoint, and burned my family’s home to the ground. We were in the middle of the brutal Blood Diamond conflict. We survived. I never forget not everyone was as lucky.

Four people sitting on a beach: a man, a woman, and two children. The man and boy are shirtless, and the woman is wearing sunglasses and a green swimsuit. They are sitting on a wooden mat with sand around them, and the man is holding an apple.

At sixteen, I came to America alone. I learned to trust my own judgment when nothing was familiar, and to build a life through resilience, discipline, and reinvention.

I went on to build a Gates Foundation–backed nonprofit with Harvard Medical School. We reduced death from postpartum hemorrhage by 96% across the clinics we reached, and built our own clinic serving a population of 25,000.

Group of children and adults standing and sitting outside a blue house with a blue roof on a dirt ground, with trees and clouds in the background.

After masters degrees from Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Kennedy School, I spent time in consulting and scaling startups before starting Kamara Life Design.

I chose this work because I'd seen—in my own life and in the lives of the most accomplished people around me—that the ability to build something extraordinary doesn't come with the ability to make it meaningful. That's a different skill. And it's one I'm uniquely equipped to teach.

Today I get to do this work while raising three kids with my husband Marcin—who also happens to be my best friend. It’s the most rewarding thing I’ve ever designed.

A family of four standing on a grassy park area with a city skyline in the background. The man on the left holds a toddler on his shoulder, and the woman on the right holds a baby. Everyone is smiling and dressed casually.

Why clients partner with me

Clients come to me when they're ready to be as honest about their life as they are about their business.

What they get is a partner who puts their experience first—not someone who projects their own story onto theirs or leads with advice before understanding what actually matters.

Our work produces better leaders—more decisive, more present, and more capable of carrying the weight of what they’re building.

How I work

My work is direct, demanding, and practical. I draw on executive coaching methodology, values-based design, and the lived experience of building under real pressure—not from a textbook.

Through 1:1 coaching, curated retreats, and workshops, I help leaders design the personal architecture that makes their success sustainable, and their life worth the effort it took to build it.

My life now

These days, I'm in Ann Arbor, Michigan with Marcin and our three kids. Building a marriage and raising kids alongside coaching has only sharpened my conviction in it.

A great life is not something that happens to you after a successful career. It is something you design, deliberately, alongside it.

That is the life I'm building. And it is the life I help my clients build.