About

I often describe myself as a white-collar drifter. My biggest claim to fame is that I hold both a BS and an MS in engineering from MIT (I couldn’t resist the buy one/get one free offer). I started my career working in a military think-tank, but having qualms about working on weaponry, I switched careers to work as a management consultant. I spent the next decade working for several large consultancies on projects covering strategy, operations, technology, and organizational development for numerous clients all over the US. During those years, I also worked as an independent training and development consultant. Motherhood forced me to make a change in lifestyle, and I joined the ranks of corporate office-dwellers in 2001, working for both Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson since then. Recently, I left the corporate world to focus on my own consulting business and to write about my corporate experiences.  The gist of my writings is that we do many silly and sometimes harmful things under the guise of “business management methods.”