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About

The woman behind the room.

Former Fortune 500 brand strategist. Founder of LISH. The voice behind a million pieces of style intelligence online, and the signature blazer a lot of women keep reaching for.

The Story

Strategy came first. Style was always the through-line.

I spent the early part of my career inside the leadership rooms of Fortune 500 companies, developing the leaders and teams who would actually build what the strategy only promised. That is where the real gold was. The brands worth building are, every single time, built by humans who have decided who they are. You cannot shortcut that.

What I was actually doing in those rooms was reading style. Who had decided. Who was rising. Who was still asking permission.

That instinct did not come from nowhere. I come from a line of women who treated a good piece of clothing like a strategic asset. My great-grandmother was the first female postmaster in Pennsylvania, and the woman who taught her town what dressing for success actually meant, long before it was a phrase you could buy in a book. Four generations later, I am still hunting a good piece like sport, and I still believe what she did: how a woman shows up is how she is met, and that declaration should never have to wait on a price tag.

Style is not decoration. It is the fastest, most undeniable way a woman communicates who she has decided to become. Build her, and the brand, the business, the room, all of it, follows.

Everything I build sits on that one belief.

LISH is the private style intelligence platform I wish I had had in every boardroom, every stage, every hard season. The Blazer is the one piece I kept searching for and could not find, built for a real body and priced without the markup. Speaking is the work that gets me in front of the rooms I care most about. Brand Work is where strategy, story and cart meet, for the companies ready to stop guessing. And YouTube is the open door, because I still believe looking and feeling like the woman you are becoming should never have to break the bank.

If you are here, some part of this is for you. That part of you already knows which door.

By the numbers
Fortune 500
Brand clients
15+
Years in strategy
1M+
Women reached
4
Style archetypes built
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