About
Built by someone who’s lived every chapter.
There’s a version of success that looks right on paper and still leaves you with questions you don’t say out loud. I know that version well. I lived it for years — climbing, pivoting, earning — until I finally decided to build something of my own.
The non-intentional chapter.
For most of my career I operated the way most ambitious women do. I said yes to the next opportunity because it made sense. I measured progress by title, by salary, by whether the people around me thought I was doing well. I collected credentials, earned promotions, and built a resume that looked — by every external measure — like success.
And it was. I’m not going to pretend otherwise. But there’s a difference between building something and choosing something. For a long time I was building. I wasn’t always choosing.
I didn’t realize how much of my career had been driven by external approval until a professional setback forced me to stop and look at it clearly. Not a catastrophic failure — just a moment that cracked something open.
In that moment I saw three things I couldn’t unsee: I had been performing success rather than living it. I was exhausted by something I had never chosen. And approval from others had been quietly driving my decisions.
The transition chapter.
What followed wasn’t an immediate pivot. It wasn’t a clean, confident leap toward something better.
It was fear. Resistance. A long, uncomfortable period of sitting with questions I’d been too busy to ask. What do I actually want? Not what makes sense. Not what looks right.
That question is one of the hardest things a high-achieving woman can ask herself. Because answering it honestly means being willing to hear an answer that might not be convenient. That might require change. That might disappoint people who have a version of you they’ve grown comfortable with.
I sat with it anyway. And slowly — not all at once — clarity came. Not clarity about what to do. Clarity about what I was done doing. Clarity about the difference between a career that belongs to you and a career that you’ve simply been executing.
That distinction changed everything.
The intentional chapter.
The shift from non-intentional to intentional didn’t happen because I made a bold move or had a dramatic breakthrough. It happened quietly — in the space between one version of myself and the next.
I stopped measuring success by what other people could see and started measuring it by what I could actually feel. I stopped asking “what’s the next logical step?” and started asking “is this actually what I want?” Most of us spend years — sometimes decades — only ever asking the first one.
Intentional living doesn’t mean having all the answers. It doesn’t mean a perfect plan or a moment where everything suddenly makes sense. It means being honest enough with yourself to hear the real answer — even when it’s inconvenient. Even when it requires change.
I left a career I was genuinely accomplished in — not because it was wrong, but because I had finally gotten honest enough with myself to know it wasn’t the whole story.
Mommy Maverick™ is part of what came next.
I want to be clear about something: my story ended with leaving corporate. Yours doesn’t have to.
Intentionality doesn’t mean leaving — it means choosing.
Some of the most intentional career moves I’ve ever seen were women who decided to go all in on climbing higher, claiming the seat at the top, and building real influence inside the organizations they’d already invested years in.
If that’s you — you belong here just as much as the woman who is ready to walk away.
The brand.
What Mommy Maverick™ stands for.
My mission.
To help high-achieving women navigate and design their professional careers with clarity and intention — whether that means getting their materials right, building their leadership foundation, or deploying what they’ve built to lead at the highest level.
My vision.
A world where high-achieving women stop executing someone else’s blueprint and start building careers that are genuinely, unapologetically theirs.
My philosophy.
Design over default. Every deliberate career starts with one honest decision — to stop letting the next logical step make the choices that belong to you.
A note on the name.
I’m a working mother — and that identity is real and central to who I am. But Mommy Maverick™ was never built exclusively for mothers. It was built for any woman navigating an intentional career on her own terms. The maverick part has always been the point. If you’re a woman who’s done following someone else’s blueprint — you belong here.
Not a specific title. Not a specific industry. Not a specific stage of motherhood or career. A specific commitment — to clarity, intention, and ownership of the career that belongs to you.
What I bring.
What I actually bring to this.
There are a lot of people offering career services. Most have never sat on the hiring side of the table at a large organization with real stakes. Most have never navigated a career pivot from one function to another and built credibility at each level. Most have never operated at the executive level and understood firsthand what it actually takes to lead at the top — the visibility, the political capital, the presence, the deliberate decisions that separate women who get there from women who stall just below it.
I’m not teaching theory. I’m translating experience.
• Over a decade of progressive leadership inside a complex, highly regulated organization
• Built from administrative assistant to Vice President through performance — not tenure
• Navigated multiple career pivots — regulatory affairs to HR to enterprise leadership
• Directly responsible for talent acquisition, performance management, and succession at scale
• Evaluated and hired candidates across every function and level
• Managed HR, compliance, and organizational design across a 1,000-person, multi-site operation
• Master of Science, Regulatory Affairs — Northeastern University
• Executive Leadership Certificate — Cornell University
• Bachelor of Science, Biology — Marist College, Salutatorian
• Featured speaker on career development and professional transitions
The difference real experience makes.
I know what a strong resume looks like because I’ve read thousands of them. I know what makes a hiring manager stop scrolling because I’ve been one. I know what gets a woman promoted because I’ve been her — and I’ve been the person deciding whether she was ready. I know what it takes to lead at the executive level because I’ve sat at that table — and I know the difference between a woman who’s performing in the role and a woman who’s fully owning it.
That’s what you’re getting when you work with me. Not a template. Not an algorithm. Not a generic coaching program. A real point of view, built on real experience, applied to your specific situation.
Who I built this for.
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The women who find their way here.
The women who find their way to Mommy Maverick™ are not lost. They are not failing. They are high-achieving, self-aware, and ready to stop letting their career happen to them.
I built this for the woman updating her resume at 11pm because she finally decided she’s ready to move — and her materials haven’t caught up with where she’s going.
I built this for the woman who stepped away — for her kids, for her health, for a season of life that needed her — and is now ready to come back on her own terms, on her own timeline, with a story she’s proud to tell.
I built this for the woman who just stepped into leadership — or who has been trying to get there — and needs more than encouragement. She needs a framework, a plan, and someone who will tell her the truth about what’s actually standing between her and the next level.
I built this for the woman who has already made it to the top — or close enough to see it clearly — and is done performing in her role and ready to own it. She has the track record. She has the credibility. What she needs is a strategic thought partner who understands the dynamics at her level, will tell her the truth about what’s holding her back, and will help her move with the kind of deliberate intention that gets women to the top and keeps them there.
Whatever chapter you’re in — whether you’re climbing, pivoting, or finally claiming what you’ve already earned — there is a next step. And I’m here to help you take it with intention.
Hear it directly.
In my own words.
Career transitions are not accidents. They are decisions. And the women who navigate them well are the ones who move with clarity and intention rather than reaction. Watch it if you want to understand how I think about career architecture — because it’s the same lens I bring to every woman I work with.
The honest version.
Getting it right matters.
Your materials either open doors or close them before you ever get a chance to show up. They either tell your story clearly or leave the reader with questions. They either position you for where you’re going or anchor you to where you’ve been.
Your leadership presence either earns you a seat at the table or keeps you performing for one. The gap between a woman who gets promoted and a woman who doesn’t isn’t only about capability — it’s also about visibility, positioning, and the ability to articulate your value in the language of the level above you.
Your career strategy either moves you deliberately toward what you want or lets the next logical step keep making decisions for you. The women who end up where they actually want to be are the ones who stopped reacting and started designing.
Getting any of it right — for your specific situation, your specific target, your specific story — takes more than a template, a pep talk, or a generic program that wasn’t built with you in mind.
Clarity for every chapter. Starting with yours.
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