I’ve spent the past 13 years listening to customers, gleaning insights, and translating these to new product opportunities. I consider myself to be a professional listener and question asker. I honed these skills consulting in the industrial design world, and now continue working with PhD chemists, prompting them to fundamentally understand situations prior to solving.
I started out as a hands-on R&D chemist, benchtop creating and scaling up to production. I matched colors and fragrances. I blended new formulations. I observed production in Guatemala and China. I found opportunities to change processes. I sold an invention.
The common thread here is that I have found many diamond-in-the-rough ideas and given them a voice.
I’m new to this world of politics and public policy, as I would have considered myself to be apolitical prior to 2016. Like most suburban working moms, I was buried in raising three small children, staying employed, staying married, and just keeping afloat the in the daily-ness. Ten years into motherhood, I’m now ready to be involved in this larger world and personally understand how decisions have influenced the change, progress, and destruction of families and communities.
Today We Listen 