I build the
systems.
You lead the
mission.
Strategist · Denver Est. 2024
Grow without
burning out.
Build without
losing who
you are.
mission-driven orgs
Two doors in.
Both lead to
clarity.
Most people start with Groundwork. When you're ready for a longer, deeper partnership, that's Tend Collective.
Pick the door that fits where you are
You already know your worst bottleneck. We fix it, document it, and make it stick. Defined scope, a few weeks, a clear price range.
See GroundworkFractional, embedded operational leadership for organizations who are done winging it. A bounded engagement, not an open-ended retainer. Operational clarity and a culture worth keeping, built together.
See Tend CollectiveGrow into what's next.
Before Tend,
fifteen years
making complex
work run.
Most recently, senior project management for national brands across these fields:
Built on a career in operations & live production: broadcast television at 9NEWS, festivals, and high-stakes events. An MBA underneath it all.
Now for founders.
numbers.
The story underneath the systems.
I have been the one who holds it together for as long as I can remember. The eldest of four. The one who helped hold things steady while my mother finished her degree at Harvard.
I am also the young mother. I've been one who plans five steps ahead because someone has to, because the ground under everyone else stays steady only if you stay ahead of it. I did not learn surviving improper structure from a classroom. I learned to survive it because there was no other option, and somewhere along the way the thing I did to survive became the thing I am best at.
Process allowed me to graduate high school a year early and go to my dream college at FAMU. Process continued to help me continue school after I became a young mother. It got me through high-intensity live shows as an audio engineer, calling cues in real time with zero room for error. It got me through an MBA program on top of all of it.
I have often been the only one in the room, the only Black woman in the audio engineering program, then the only one on the job. When you are the exception, people are watching, and you learn to be twice as prepared, to leave no gap for anyone to point to. It also made me good at seeing the system underneath the chaos, and building the one that should have been there all along.
for what's under the surface
Vision isn't
the hard part.
Carrying it alone is.
Process has been the undercurrent of my life for so long that I fell in love with it, not just professionally, but personally. I plan my vision one, three, five years out the same way I planned a live show: I see where I am going, then I build the path to get there.
Vision is not the hard part. The women I work with have it in abundance. What eventually becomes impossible is carrying all of it in their heads, doing everything alone, growing faster than any system can hold.
I know that exhaustion. I also know what happens on the other side of it, when the right structure finally takes the weight off and you can put your energy into what actually moves the needle.
That is the whole reason Tend Collective exists. I build the systems so you can lead the mission. Not from above, not from a framework I read in a book, but from someone who has stood where you are standing and found her way through by building the thing that holds.
You have the vision. Let me build the structure that lets you carry it.
you carry the vision
who build with care
Not sure which
door is yours?
A short form to start, so when we meet, we go straight to the real conversation.
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Share what you're building 5-minute form
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I read, reflect, reply Within 48 hours
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03
We talk it through 30-min discovery call
Just honesty.