Known as the co-founder and COO of scrappy start-up-turned-global women's media company BlogHer, Inc., I'm now focused on writing, speaking, and consulting with entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and organizations at the inflection points when they are contemplating pivots, diversifying and scaling their revenue streams, and looking for better ways to get their narrative out into the world.
My mission is to help you make your vision reality.
My motto: Innovation + Empathy > Innovation + Efficiency
My debut book, Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All was published by Ten Speed Press on September 18 and was an Amazon #1 New Release. A hands-on resource guide to activating around the causes you care most about, #RoadMap4Revs features contributions and/or endorsements from such diverse activists and advocates as Gloria Steinem, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Patrisse Cullors, Soledad O'Brien, Ricki Lake, Guy Kawasaki, Bobby Jones, and Carla Hall.
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I co-founded BlogHer in 2005 and served as COO until acquired in 2014 by SheKnows Media, where I eventually served as Chief Community Officer until 2017.
BlogHer was a movement that created a market, ultimately becoming a national women's media brand with 100 million web users, thousands of conference attendees, and >$30 million in annual revenue. At the forefront of the social web revolution, we built value for women online. My work has craeted a model on how to build community, grow a business, support diversity in words and action, and defend transparency and civility as content, community, and commerce collide online.
I now act as a business catalyst, consulting with executives and entrepreneurs to identify, prioritize, and strategize their next big leaps. I help them improve representation by building diverse, inclusive community and workforce online and off. I work with leaders to assess opportunity, prioritize objectives, build strategies, and plan action. I absorb nuanced value propositions, market trends, and data to transform ideas into assets and crossroads into confident pivots and next level achievement.
As a speaker, I have delivered keynote presentations and conducted high-profile interviews across the globe to audiences numbering in the thousands. I inspire makers, creators, entrepreneurs, executives, and thought leaders to own their expertise and manage fear and risk to make bold leaps. And I'm the best damn moderator/interviewer you'll find.
A sampling of speaking engagements includes: INFORUM@Commonwealth Club, United State of Women, TEDx, DLD Women, SXSW, DENT, BlogHer, and numerous corporate and college campuses.
I have interviewed luminaries such as Martha Stewart, Christy Turlington Burns, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tig Notaro, Kim Kardashian West, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Luvvie Ajayi, Gale Ann Hurd, Caterina Fake, David Lebovitz, and Guy Kawasaki.
