Making sense
out of chaos.

Make decisions you can stand behind.

Through focused conversation, I help open your perspective so you can see what is influencing your judgment, stop going in circles, and make decisions you can stand behind.

Jerilyn Ito seated in a soft pink blazer

Where I come in

I take in what you are saying, cut through the noise, and get to the point that helps move you from where you are.

As we talk, I listen for how the different parts of what you’re experiencing connect, where they no longer fit together, and what is influencing how you’re seeing what is happening.

The conversation isn’t about me giving you another perspective or an answer. Together, we make sense of what you’re experiencing, and through our conversation, what you hadn't recognized before begins to emerge.

Your perspective opens through the conversation itself, while the decision, direction, and how you move forward remain in your hands.

Two ways to work together

What are you trying to make sense of?

We begin with what you bring from your life or your work. Through the conversation, your perspective opens, allowing you to see what is already there and where you want to go from here.

For your work

When the direction has become harder to see.

You already have plenty of input, but the more that is added around the decision, the harder the direction can become to see. Focused perspective work for founders, executives, business owners, and organizational leaders who are trying to make sense of a decision, direction, strategy, evolving work, or too many possibilities at once.

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For your life

When there is more to your experience than you can put into words.

A one-to-one Echo of Life Session to explore your relationship with the life you are living—through a relationship, decision, direction, or what keeps drawing your attention. Your perspective opens as connections within your experience become clearer.

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When it is about your work

More possibilities do not always make the direction clearer.

You can begin with a clear sense of what you are creating, where the business or organization is going, or what decision you are trying to make, and then more possibilities come into the picture.

The work has changed faster than the language around it. Ideas that seemed connected no longer make sense together. AI adds even more because every answer opens another way to look at what is already in front of you or another direction to explore.

This is where my work comes in. You bring what you are trying to make sense of, and we work from there until you can see where you want to move next.

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When it is about your life

“The first explanation we tell ourselves is not always what the experience is showing us.”

In an Echo of Life Session, we begin with the experience you are living and how you are relating to life through it. As connections between your thoughts, feelings, physical responses, and intuitive awareness become clearer, your perspective opens. This is integrated awareness becoming part of how you live.

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Jerilyn Ito

Why I work this way

30+years within
healthcare systems

See the direction without handing your judgment over to someone else.

For more than 30 years, I worked within healthcare systems, including 20 years within a federal agency, where different perspectives, resources, circumstances, and the people affected by a decision all influenced how decisions were made.

During those years, people across different levels of the organization, from staff to senior leaders and across different departments, would come to me outside of formal meetings, sometimes in the hallway or privately in their office, to talk through a decision or what they were trying to make sense of.

I became a sounding board because people knew they could bring me what they were looking at and get to the point without having the decision taken out of their hands.

Through that experience, I became aware of how easily another person’s interpretation, the story we tell ourselves about what is happening, or the amount of information around us can begin to influence how we see what is already in front of us.

Making sense out of chaos is what runs through all of my work, and that does not mean adding another answer on top of everything you already have. I am helping you get to the point where what is already there becomes easier to see.

Read My Story

A way forward that is yours

Trust Life.
Never Abandon Yourself.
Move Without Regret.

A decision you can stand behind is not one you never change. It is one you understand why you made it, even if you later see the situation differently.

Whether we are talking about your life or your work, our conversation opens your perspective so you can see where you are and where you want to go next. The decision, the direction, and how you move forward stay in your hands.

Choose where to begin