After 26 years working both in and with businesses to improve their processes, increase yields, streamline manufacturing, and truly listen to what their people want, I’m launching out on my own.

Why? Well, I could tell you about my desire for work-life balance – and it would be true. My husband and I are empty nesters, and we want to travel more while we’re still relatively healthy. I could also tell you about narrowing down my focus to what I’m most passionate about – and that would also be true. What gives me joy in my career is the “teach a person to fish” idea. Training others, yes. Coaching them to success, yes. Helping a team or company see where they have opportunities, and giving them the roadmap and tools to leverage them, heck yes.

What I most want though, is more variety in the people and companies I help. Staying with a single business means working only with them. Staying at a consulting company means being restricted to the clients and issues that a separate sales team unearths.

Here, now, as my own advisory firm, I can find the right companies who need my kind of expertise – not as a full-time hire, but a temporary program guide, a fractional PMO or OCM leader. The mid-market space I’m looking at is huge and diverse, and I’m excited to work not only with the same kinds of tech businesses as my previous ‘life’, but at everything else – retail, financial, you name it.