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Portfolio & Services

A body of work built across continents, industries, and thousands of families.

Pet Life Coaching Solutions

Comprehensive support for every stage and challenge — rooted in science, delivered with compassion.

✓Puppy Foundations
✓Adult Dog Basics
✓New Rescue Transition
✓Separation Anxiety
✓Barking
✓Inter-Dog Aggression
✓Human-Directed Aggression
✓Fearfulness & Anxiety
✓Nervous / Shutdown Dogs
✓Leash Reactivity
✓Resource Guarding
✓Handling & Grooming Sensitivities
✓Routine & Structure Building
✓Cue Work
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For Guardians

Private training, behavior consults, puppies, reactivity, separation anxiety

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For Trainers

Professional mentorship, case consults, sep anx guidance, skill development

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Other

Shelters, rescue organizations, veterinary teams, press, collaborations

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Experience

Senior Veteran Trainer

GoodPup

Boston, MA | Remote

2020 - 2025
  • ✓Completed 10,000+ virtual training sessions with clients across the U.S. & Canada.
  • ✓Specialized in foundational skills, complex behavior modification, and emotional wellness.
  • ✓Member of the Behavior Team (2022-2025): Conducted trainer audits, behavior escalations, and onboarding support.
  • ✓Designed GoodPup's official separation-anxiety protocol and authored all training materials.
  • ✓Led internal SA workshops and mentored trainers company-wide.
  • ✓Only full-time Certified Separation Anxiety Trainer (CSAT) on staff.

Head of Behaviour & Training

Homeschool by Laylo

CA, US | Remote

2023 - 2025
  • ✓Transitioned the organization from LIMA to 100% force-free training, reshaping the entire company culture.
  • ✓Designed hiring pipelines, interview flows, trainer SOPs, and performance-evaluation systems.
  • ✓Led training, onboarding, and behavior escalation support for staff.
  • ✓Built the internal training resource library and wrote company-wide course content.
  • ✓Designed the organization's separation anxiety training protocol for virtual delivery.

Founder & CEO

The Dog Lady's House

Sri Lanka

2010 - Present
  • ✓Established Sri Lanka's first kennel-free dog hotel and certified training center.
  • ✓Developed 500+ individualized training plans with a 98% success rate in reversing behavioral displacement.
  • ✓Created Sri Lanka's first trainer certification program; mentored a new generation of trainers.
  • ✓Pioneered previously non-existent services: service-dog training, pet cremation, dog relocation/import-export logistics.

Consultant

Genuinely Gentle

St. Marys, GA | Remote

2021 - 2022
  • ✓Developed public-facing educational content and humane-training campaigns.
  • ✓Designed visual collateral and messaging around force-free philosophy.

Education & Certifications

  • CSAT — Certified Separation Anxiety Trainer (Malena DeMartini, 2024)

    First-ever international full merit-based scholarship recipient.

  • Karen Pryor Academy — Dog Trainer Foundations (2023)

  • Diploma in Canine Behaviour & Training — CICBT, UK (2013)

  • Fundamentals of Dog Training (Brenda Aloff, 2018)

  • GoodPup Online Training Program (2020)

  • Edexcel A-Levels & O-Levels — Honours Graduate, AIS Colombo

Speaking Engagements

Expert Panelist — "The Future of Dog Training," Decoding Your Dog Summit (2025)

Awards & Recognition

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Entrepreneur of the Year — Innovation

Chamber of Commerce, Sri Lanka (2018)

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Top 5 Finalist — Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Sri Lanka

(2017)

Media Features

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Sri Lanka's First Dog Hotel

FT.lk

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Award-Winning Entrepreneur

Sunday Times

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Revolutionizing Online Dog Training

DailyMirror.lk

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First Dog Training Facility in Sri Lanka

Life.lk

Skills & Specializations

✓Advanced behavior modification for aggression, fear, & separation-related disorders
✓Virtual-training delivery & curriculum design
✓Trainer mentorship, onboarding, SOP development
✓Family-systems coaching & cross-cultural communication
✓High-clarity educational content creation
✓Deep emotional attunement & structured case management