
Ep 120 – Stop Being Your Ops Team’s Bottleneck
If I had a buck for every time a leader has told me, “Once my team’s fully up to speed, then I’ll be able to relax,” I

If I had a buck for every time a leader has told me, “Once my team’s fully up to speed, then I’ll be able to relax,” I

Ops leaders everywhere are stretched thin: constant fires, shifting priorities, and teams worried AI will erase their roles. Budgets are shrinking, yet expectations keep rising,

Last year, I coached a VP of Operations. She was exhausted in that hyper-functional way. Technically knocking it out of the park but completely running on fumes.

Picture a Wednesday morning, years back. Another urgent data review meeting and things were so tense. Everyone waiting for me—the one in charge—to have a

A client looked at me across Zoom recently, and said, “I just don’t want to get forgotten while I’m gone.” She was five months pregnant—organized,

Leading operations means balancing precision with people—and that’s not always easy. I know an ops leader in a fast-growing biotech company. Over the last few