A Message from Our Founder

As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, she worked alongside women-led cooperatives building production systems, developing marketing strategies, and accessing grant funding that expanded what those communities could achieve. She did not arrive with a playbook. She built one from what was actually there. That experience shaped how she thinks about operational design: start with the people, understand how the work actually moves, then build infrastructure that holds even when circumstances change.
 

She brought that same approach into federal service and spent the next 15 years applying it at increasing scale. As a Global Health Service Partnership Coordinator at Peace Corps headquarters, she helped launch an international program and managed a cooperative agreement worth over a million dollars annually. She then deployed to Vanuatu as Acting Country Director and Acting Director of Management and Operations, managing country-level budgets, contracts, staff, and crisis response in a resource-constrained environment where strong systems were not optional.
 

From there, her career moved through some of the most operationally demanding agencies in the federal government. At the Federal Highway Administration, she managed a $20 million program portfolio, built the SOPs that made critical HR functions repeatable across headquarters and field offices, and led cross-agency initiatives that standardized what had previously depended entirely on institutional memory. At the Federal Transit Administration, she served as a Business Process Improvement Lead, redesigning workflows and building operational frameworks that entire agencies relied on to function. At the Department of the Interior, she served as Chief of Staff for the Departmental FOIA Office, leading two full strategic planning cycles, securing multi-year program funding, and building department-wide performance standards from the ground up. She currently serves as Associate Director of Human Capital Planning and Solutions at the U.S. Department of Transportation, where she leads a team of subject matter experts, manages enterprise-level programs, and oversees workforce planning initiatives that set the standard across the Department.
 

Before federal service, she spent over a decade in private sector operations at Suzuki Motor Corporation and in tech and gaming, where she built the same operational discipline in environments that moved faster and forgave less.
A wife and mother based in Washington, DC, she approaches every engagement the way she has approached every complex system she has ever been handed: find the real problem, build something that holds, and leave it better than she found it.
 

Afloat was built from a pattern she observed across every organization she has served. The founders and leaders who scale without burning out are never the ones doing the most. They are the ones who built the infrastructure that lets the right things happen without them in every decision.
Afloat brings that infrastructure to founders generating $500K and above who are ready to stop operating their business and start building it.