I'm a teacher turned operations architect. I build the structure that lets a business run calmly, and I care just as much about the person running it.
Consider me the architect behind your business: I build the structure so you can get back to the work you love.
I started my career as a teacher. I studied elementary education, went on to earn my master's in school counseling, and the classroom taught me most of what I still believe about people. They do their best work when the structure around them is clear and they feel safe enough to grow.
When I moved into the business world, I kept seeing the same pattern. Talented women were building real businesses, and every decision, question and loose end still ran through them. So I built Well Balanced Business, a boutique operations agency, and spent six years helping service businesses put the systems, teams and rhythms in place to carry their own weight.
Along the way I earned my ICF coaching certification and started bringing nervous system and somatic tools into the work, because the best operations plan won't hold if the person running it is running on empty. I also produce business events, and I lead FemCity Des Moines as chapter president.
Today I work with a small number of business owners as a fractional COO, coach and event producer, from my home base in the Des Moines area.
Clear roles, simple systems and steady rhythms take the guesswork out of the day, for you and for your team.
We plan around the person running the business, not just the business, so growth doesn't cost you your health or your evenings.
Every system we put in place has a reason to be there. If it doesn't make the business lighter, it doesn't stay.