Who Actually Gets How Your Brain Works
The COO & Operations Consultant Your Business Needs
Here's the thing about tomorrow: it isn't promised.
That's when I learned: Systems aren't about perfection. They're about resilience.
For three years, I watched my father fight cancer while I tried to hold together an academic career - teaching, publishing, building. When he died in 2019, I was juggling everything: the family farm, my career, and the crushing realization that I'd been building systems for the wrong life.
From Farm Girl to Fractional COO
I grew up on a Delaware farm where things either worked or they didn't. No committees. No meetings about meetings. Just clear cause and effect - fix it now or deal with bigger problems later.
Maybe that's why I've always been obsessed with systems that actually work. Not the Instagram-pretty ones. The boring, reliable ones that function when you're operating at 20% capacity.
The academic years: I collect degrees like some people collect coffee mugs. Dual MBAs in Finance and Marketing by 21. Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from Wilmington University by 25 (started teaching at 20 - yes, really). Ph.D. in Learning, Design & Technology from Penn State University by 33. Published 32 peer-reviewed articles in less than 5 years while teaching full time as a tenured professor and building a new college department.
The plot twist: Turns out, all those degrees didn't protect me from ADHD tax. You know—the one where you build elaborate systems you never use, keep critical information in screenshots, and run your entire business from your inbox while having 47 browser tabs open.
The revelation: When I became COO at Forte Labs (yes, Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain company), I finally understood. Traditional operations punish non-linear thinking. They assume perfect consistency. They require executive function you don't have at 11 PM on Sunday.
So I started building different systems. Systems designed FOR ADHD brains, not despite them.
My Credentials
Current Operations
→ Fractional COO & Operations Advisor to multiple 6, 7, and 8-figure businesses
→ Managing operations for 10+ businesses simultaneously
→ Running Systematic AF Club Community
→ Launching SCVA Certification Program (November 2025)
The Academic Stuff
→ Ph.D. in Learning, Design & Technology (Penn State, 2015)
→ Ed.D. in Educational Leadership (Wilmington University, 2008)
→ Dual MBAs in Finance & Marketing
→ Currently pursuing J.D. at UNH Franklin Pierce (my operations run themselves, so I'm free to learn what interests me)
→ 32 peer-reviewed publications on institutional research, academic libraries, teaching with technology, instructional design and adult learning
The Real-World Proof
→ Former COO at Forte Labs during hypergrowth
→ 100% conversion rate from Systems Audit to ongoing retainer
→ 30+ members in Systematic AF Club learning my frameworks
The resume part (Because Sometimes It Matters)
Behind the Scenes
Home Base
I split time between Delaware (our condo and the family farm where I spend 1-2 nights weekly with my mother) and our apartment in Prague. My husband Peter is Czech, and yes, he's the one who reminds me to close my 200 browser tabs.
The ADHD Thing
Diagnosed later in life, which explained everything. Why I could write a doctoral dissertation but couldn't remember to pay bills without autopay. Why I built complex systems I'd abandon the moment they required maintenance. Why traditional productivity advice made me feel broken.
Current Chaos
Running an operations consulting business while pursuing a law degree and managing family farm responsibilities. If my systems can survive my life, they can survive yours.
The Philosophy
My dad used to say, "inch by inch it's a cinch. Yard by yard it's hard." Quick fixes become permanent problems. Productive friction prevents bigger failures. Systems should be love letters to your future self.
Strategic speed bumps that prevent bigger crashes
Built FOR our brains, not adapted from neurotypical templates
Every system tested under actual chaos
How I Think About Operations
Most people build systems for their best day. I build for your worst.
Because your worst day is when you actually need systems. When you're exhausted. When life implodes. When your ADHD is winning. When tomorrow wasn't promised but the deliverables still are.
My frameworks include:
Fix what's actually broken, not what looks broken
Every framework I teach has been tested in actual chaos. COVID. Family crisis. Startup volatility. The Sunday Scaries at 11 PM.
Why This Matters
My mission as an operations consultant is simple
Research shows that about 29%* of entrepreneurs have ADHD. With more than 16 million Americans working for themselves, that means roughly 5 million business owners may be navigating entrepreneurship with ADHD.
You know what I'm talking about:
→ The shame of abandoned systems
→ The panic of not remembering what you promised
→ The exhaustion of masking operational chaos
→ The cost of quick fixes that became permanent problems
Build operations that work with your brain, not against it. Create systems that serve you at your worst, not your best. Design infrastructure that assumes you're human.
Because tomorrow isn't promised. But your sanity should be.
*Simmons University research on ADHD in entrepreneurs
You have options:
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Start with a Strategy Session ($297) to diagnose your biggest operational bottleneck.
02
Dive deep with a Systems Audit ($1,500) to see everything that's broken and exactly how to fix it.
03
Join the Systematic AF Club ($9.99/month) for templates, office hours, and community with people who get it.
What Happens Next
If you've read this far, you're probably one of my people. The overthinkers who underprepare. The brilliant strategists who can't find their strategy document. The ones running successful businesses on coffee fumes and browser tabs.
Or just start with my newsletter.
Every Sunday, I write from Delaware (or Prague) about operations, ADHD, and building systems that love you back. No guru garbage. No toxic productivity. Just real systems for real life.
