Miranda is a relational leader and educator, ground-breaking neuroscience researcher, brain-based executive coach, and passionate leadership psychologist with expertise in consulting across a variety of industries and sectors. Through the application of psychological theory and cutting-edge neuroscience research, her work supports leaders, teams, and organizations to maximize psychological safety, navigate change, and reach high performance. She is committed to collaborating with clients to build the skills and capacity necessary to respond to ever-evolving conditions and to unleash the pent-up potential that exists within themselves, their teams, and their organizations.

Miranda spent 10 years as an educator including 6 years as a graduate-level Professor and Program Director in a graduate school’s Organizational and Leadership Psychology Department. She directed the master’s degree in organizational psychology and Neuroscience of Leadership Area of Emphasis for doctoral practitioners.  Through that work she has supported the training of over 200 graduate level organizational and leadership development practitioners. She co-created and directed the Neuroscience of Leadership Area of Emphasis and Neuroscience of Leadership Laboratory, both firsts of their kind in an academic setting. Through the experience in creating and directing remote and blended educational structures and opportunities, Miranda has become an expert in remote leadership, training and development, and course design as well as a highly skilled online and in-person facilitator. In addition to being a leader in the educational sector, she was also formerly the CEO and President of Ralston Directional, a firm that provided horizontal drilling services to major gas and oil industry players across the US. She has also shared her expertise at Harvard Business School as an Executive Coach in the executive education programs.

Miranda holds a Doctoral degree in Leadership Psychology and a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership. She also holds undergraduate degrees in both Education and Psychology. She has conducted ground-breaking neuroscientific research exploring the impact leadership behaviors have on followers from a neurological, physiological, and psychological perspective. Her research linked resonant leadership behaviors to increased psychological safety, lowered heart rate, and differences in neurological responses in followers. She has presented on her research at the New England Psychological Association (NEPA) conference with workshops and symposiums titled: The Boss and your Brain, The Neuroscience of Innovation, and Neuroscience in the 21^stCentury. Miranda uses the findings of her research to support leaders in creating relationships and environments where they and their followers can perform at their best. Miranda is also the co-author of the article Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Social Architecture, and Black Male Leadership that appeared in the 2021 award winning special issue of Advances in Developing Human Resources.  

Miranda is a licensed training provider for David Kantor’s Structural Dynamics Baseline and Team instruments amd a partner and certification provider of the Fearless Organization Scan. She is also a certified Brain-Based executive coach and a certified practitioner in the EUM instrument. A few of Miranda’s areas of expertise include: psychological safety, the neuroscience of organizations and leadership, leadership behaviors that promote performance in followers, resonant leadership, promoting leadership and personal development in middle and high school girls, dialogue and communication at work, team and group dynamics, and leader-follower dynamics.

Miranda has a passion for team building and developing self-awareness, leadership, and communication skills in young women beginning in middle and high school and continuing throughout their careers. She began working with girls in middle and high school at the age of 17 traveling up and down the east coast as a team building and training facilitator. She then moved into coaching and training high school female athletes for several years. The desire to work with young women has not gone away and she is currently creating a Girls Leadership Program for Middle and High School girls. She is also the president of the board for the local girls’ soccer booster club and the clerk on the Board of Directors for High Spirit East – a non-profit focused on building an integrated work/life community for young adults with disabilities. She lives with her husband, 16-year-old daughter, and many beloved animals on a small hobby farm north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.