About Me
There’s a moment every growing company hits when the people who got you here aren’t quite the people who can take you further. I’ve lived that moment from both sides, as the one building the structure, and as the one who had to rebuild myself when growth outpaced what I had left to give.
I spent nearly a decade at GoFundMe, joining as employee #50 and helping scale the company past 900 people, through hypergrowth, acquisitions, and every version of the org it took to get there. I learned firsthand that the biggest risk after a raise usually isn’t hiring. It’s whether the leadership team you already have can take you to what’s next, and whether you have the clarity to see that while you’re in it.
Since then, I’ve led Talent and People Operations for 10+ startups, rebuilding teams and strategy at the exact inflection points where founders and executives are making their hardest calls: who to hire, who to let go, whether the structure around them still fits. What I love doing now, and what I do today, is partner directly with female founders and female business owners through that same moment, not as an outside consultant, but as the person in your corner while you find the answer yourself.
My perspective is shaped as much by resilience as by experience. Graduating into the 2008 financial crisis taught me to adapt fast when the path isn’t clear. Beating cancer in my 30s, after hitting clinical burnout taught me that you cannot lead well, or decide well, from a place of exhaustion or fear.
That’s the same lens I bring to every founder and leader I work with: honest conversations, real clarity, and decisions built to last, not ones that just ease the pressure today.
Home for me is San Diego with my husband, Ian, and our rescue dog, Captain.