I’ve spent more than a decade leading teams, scaling products, and carrying the weight of impossible expectations in highgrowth startups and established corporations. On paper, I was the kind of leader people wanted: strategic, relentless, always available, always delivering.

What most people didn’t see was the cost.

I burned out. Hard. The kind of burnout that left me sobbing at 2:30 in the afternoon for no reason. The kind that made me feel hollow even as I hit career milestones. The kind that doesn’t resolve with a vacation or a yoga class, because THAT’S NOT HOW BURNOUT WORKS.

My burnout story is here in full if you want to read it (part 1, part 2, part 3). But the short version is this: I spent years unraveling and I had to completely rebuild how I approach work, leadership, and life to find my way back.

That’s why I built The Threadsmith Group.

What I Do

Now I help leaders, professionals, and whole teams recognize burnout before it flattens them, and recover if it already has. My work blends the unpolished truth of lived experience with the sharp tools of leadership coaching and organizational transformation. I don’t deal in fluff, platitudes, or surface-level advice. I deal in clarity, boundaries, and practices that actually hold under pressure.

I’ve led engineering organizations, launched products, and turned around underperforming teams. I’ve spoken at places like Unspam, M3AAWG, and Dreamforce. I also serve on the board of Women of Email. I know what high-performance cultures demand, and I know the wreckage they leave behind if we don’t change how we operate in the workplace.

Why It Matters

Burnout isn’t a personal failure. It’s a signal that something about how you’re working, leading, or living is unsustainable. I’ve lived it. I’ve recovered. And I’ve built a practice that helps others do the same.

If you’re here, you might already know what it feels like to be unraveling. My job is to help you find your way back. Not to who you were before burnout, but to a stronger, saner version of yourself who doesn’t have to break to succeed.