I spent more than a decade leading teams and shipping products inside high-growth startups and big corporations. I scaled product orgs, turned around teams that were underperforming, and built the kind of operational machinery that lets a company run without one person holding every thread. On paper I was the leader people wanted: strategic, relentless, always available, always delivering.

I was also burning out, and I had a front-row seat to exactly why.

The systems I was fixing for the business were the same ones grinding people down. I saw roadmaps that changed with the founder's mood, decisions that routed through one exhausted person (me), and process that existed because…..well, um, someone built it 10 years ago and no one was brave enough to challenge it, but they sure could suffer through it. I watched it break the companies, and I watched it break the people inside them, and eventually I was one of the people it broke.

I felt kind of burnout that left me sobbing at 2:30 in the afternoon for no reason. The kind that made me feel hollow while I was hitting career milestones. The kind a vacation does not touch, because THAT IS NOT HOW BURNOUT WORKS. My full burnout story is here if you want it (part 1, part 2, part 3). The short version is that I completely unraveled, and I had to rebuild how I work, lead, and live to find my way back.

That rebuild is why Threadsmith Group exists, and it is why I do two kinds of work that are actually the same work.

What I Do

For founder-led B2B SaaS companies, I fix the operational infrastructure underneath the business. I embed for three to six months, find what is actually broken versus what everyone thinks is broken, and build the decision frameworks, execution rhythms, and cross-functional alignment that let the founder stop being the bottleneck. Then I leave, because the point is that you do not need me forever.

For professionals and leaders who are burning out or already flattened, I do burnout recovery coaching. We get underneath what is draining you, build boundaries that hold, and rebuild the stamina and clarity that the grind took from you.

High-performance cultures break systems and break people, usually at the same time and for the same reasons, and most of the standard advice treats the symptom while ignoring the rot. I have led the engineering orgs, launched the products, and spoken at places like Unspam, M3AAWG, and Dreamforce. I also sit on the board of Women of Email. I know what these cultures demand, and I know the wreckage they leave when nobody changes how the work actually happens.

Why It Matters

Burnout is not a personal failing, and a thrashing company is not just a founder who needs to try harder. Both are signals that the way the work is structured has stopped being sustainable. I have lived both sides of that. I broke, I rebuilt, and I built a practice that helps founders fix the machine and helps people recover from what the machine cost them.

If you are here, you probably already feel the thing that is not working. My job is to help you fix it, whether the patient is your company or you personally.