What’s in a name? Coaching vs Mentoring
Coaching is an entirely unregulated industry. There’s no single central board or governing body. There’s no “higher power” you can go to for someone’s coaching license to get revoked if they wind up causing some kind of harm in your life. You can take a weekend course and call yourself a coach or you can take no course at all and call yourself a coach. That’s not shade, it’s just facts.
Transforming Your Business with Fractional Product Management
If you've ever thought, "We need a product manager, but we’re not quite ready to hire full-time," then congratulations, you're thinking like a lot of smart, scrappy businesses. Enter fractional product management: the perfect middle ground between hiring a full-time leader and going entirely without one.
Aligning Leadership and Product Teams for Sustainable Growth
If you’ve ever worked somewhere that leadership and product weren’t aligned, you know how messy it gets. Leadership is out here talking big-picture, revenue, ARR, acquisition. Product is in the weeds with users, tech debt, and what can actually be built without setting the whole codebase aflame. When those worlds don’t line up, deadlines slip, priorities shuffle weekly, and everyone burns out.
Strategy is only as good as execution.
People > Process
As I see more and more AI-driven companies come out, it becomes increasingly clear to me that business owners seem to believe that all they need is the perfect algorithm to find the perfect business flow. If you just have processes and systems talking to one another, who needs people!
Wrong. Bad. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
It’s 2:30 pm and I’m…fine?: My Burnout Story (part 3)
I wish I could tell you that getting a new job fixed everything. That I logged onto my shiny new laptop, tossed my previous workplace’s trauma in the trash, dusted off my hands, and never looked back.
But you can’t just toss your trauma in the trash. :(
It’s 2:30 pm and I’m furious: My Burnout Story (part 2)
After my friend gave me the loving shouting wake-up call, I stopped seeing my Crying Appointment as some personal failing and started seeing it for what it actually was: a cry for help.
Once I acknowledged that, what came rushing in was anger.
Hi, I’m Skyler. Welcome to The Threadsmith Group.
Hi, welcome, I’m glad you’re here!
I’m Skyler, and I started this business because I got tired of watching brilliant people twist themselves into knots for broken systems.
For years, I’ve been the person people come to when they need someone who can cut through the chaos and say what’s actually going on—without sugarcoating it, but with just enough warmth to make it land. I’ve helped small teams untangle messy workflows, fix confusing products, and get their operations back on track. I’ve accidentally amassed a following on LinkedIn (hi!) based on my snarky responses to their AI-generated questions. And I’ve helped women find their voice in rooms that were never built with them in mind. I’m most proud of that.