The career arc isn't random. Every stop was another room with a problem nobody had fully solved. I went in, listened, and built the fix.
I'm a product leader with deep roots in geospatial analytics, supply chain, and public health. I've spent 15 years in rooms where people had problems they couldn't fully articulate yet — and I've learned that the right tool for the problem is rarely the first one anyone suggests.
My superpower isn't technology — it's the combination of genuine curiosity, deep listening, and the ability to translate what I hear into something that actually gets built. I ask better questions than most. I stay until I understand what's actually broken. Then I build the fix.
I'm Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Flourish & Thrive Labs — a WBE and SBA 8(a) certified public health technology company. I'm also a Fulbright Scholar, three-time national keynote speaker, and the person who built a library automation system for her own family because she couldn't walk past a broken process.
I've spent over a decade building, including taking F&T Labs from the ground up. Now I'm intentionally looking for my next chapter as part of a team: a defined product leadership role where I can go deep on the work I do best and commit to one product and one team for the long haul.
I also build communities around the problems I care about — not as a side project, but as part of the work. I grew a 2,000-person geospatial audience under the Tabulae Spatial brand, hosted Mappy Hours as a gathering point for the geospatial community, co-founded the Bulgarian English Speech Tournament Foundation (6 schools → 35+), and now run a monthly AI for Public Health Community of Practice. I've led multiple storytelling with data trainings for clients and spoken on national stages three times. The instinct is the same one I bring to product work: find where people are isolated or stuck, and create the thing that brings them together.
I'm based in Northern Illinois. I homeschool my daughter, co-run a company with my husband, and genuinely believe that the best product work starts with a real conversation.
Every role added a new domain. The instinct — go toward the people first — was there from day one.
Fifteen years across defense, supply chain, geospatial, and public health. The domains changed constantly. One thing didn't: I always ended up asking whether the data behind the decision could actually support the conclusion being drawn from it.
AI is not a substitute for thinking critically about your data. Using AI for data analysis is a signal to pay closer attention to the limitations — not less.
Three-time national keynote speaker on AI in public health and geospatial. I speak from the inside: the case studies are mine, the failures are real, and the audience walks away with something actionable.
I'm a verbal processor — I think out loud, I use voice memos constantly, I work through problems in conversation. My best insights come from talking through a problem with a real person, not staring at a document.
I'm diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. I didn't read at grade level until fourth grade. My career has been defined by having big ideas and thinking well — and having to work very hard to build the systems that help me execute on them. That's made me excellent at building systems. For myself, and for the organizations I work with.
I categorize tasks by focus level. I built an automation for my family's library holds because I couldn't tolerate a broken process at home any more than at work. I apply the same problem-solving instinct to my own kitchen table that I bring to enterprise-scale work. The scale changes. The instinct doesn't.
I'm looking for a full-time product leadership role where I can commit to one team for the long haul.
Based in Northern Illinois, open to remote.