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psst! it's pronounced "Mack-ree-ann-iss"

creativity, curiosity, passion & productivity ✨

Believe it or not, my formal education is in Theatre and Psychology.
But it works: to solve product problems, we need engaged people.

My ✨secret sauce✨ is a blend of sharp thinking, active listening, quick synthesis, enthusiastic storytelling, attention to detail, and relationship-building to catalyze great ideas, uncover insights and opportunities, and help product teams get unstuck.

Let's get started. Where will you go next?

WORK PERSONALITY

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Who am I, really?
What's it like to work with me?

Here are a few details about my personality that tend to shine through in my day-to-day work life.

I love to:
• Influence and streamline product ops and processes to find better ways to work
• Work with empowered teams of folks who really know their stuff; trusting team members and colleagues to do their own thing well is huge for me
• Craft pitches for big bets, facilitate hard conversations between stakeholders to make decisions, and celebrate big wins

The Predictive Index: The Maverick - Natural Leaders

  • Innovative, influential, daring, and direct

  • Wants to achieve what's never been achieved before

  • Not a fan of the status quo and will shake things up

  • Thrive with goals and freedom to determine tactics

Mavericks love groundbreaking products and inspiring teams to grow.

Take the PI Behavioral Assessment here.

Enneagram Type 3w4: The Professional Innovator & Achiever

  • Energetic, confident, competitive and motivational

  • Ambitious, goal-oriented, diligent and dependable

  • Values introspection and creative self-expression

  • Strives to connect socially with others

  • Driven by sense of purpose and desire to make meaningful impact

  • Seeks growth opportunities for continuous improvement

Famous 3w4s: Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé

Find your enneagram type and wing here.

DISC (Drive/Dominance, Influence, Support, Clarity)

Drive/Dominance x Influence (Di) - The Initiator & Achiever

  • A confident, natural leader eager to own direction and decisions

  • Pursues large, ambitious goals with speed and bursts of intensity

  • Results-oriented, unafraid to take action and competitive risk

  • Challenges status-quo with innovative thinking

  • Thrives on change, excitement, enthusiasm, and spontaneity

Famous Di Types: Steve Jobs, Meryl Streep, Muhammad Ali

Find your DISC style here.

StrengthsFinder: Nearly all within the Influence Domain

  • Purpose, energy, and passion to inspire change

  • Will storm fearlessly into the unknown and rally others to a cause

  • Motivated to get themselves and their teams to the top

Top Strength: Activator

  • Catalysts who get things started, make things happen

  • Contagious, engaging energy and momentum

  • Can naturally turn ideas into actions

  • Love to take advantage of opportunities others miss

  • Pursues large, ambitious goals with speed and bursts of intensity

Famous Activator: Richard Branson

Take the StrengthsFinder quiz here.

Branding Card Deck Exercise - Self Assessment
This helps companies and products identify their key descriptors.

  • I am: Optimistic, Clever, Opinionated, Intuitive, and Approachable

  • I am NOT: Ordinary, Subtle, or Quiet.

Guess what?
I have the card deck and can run the exercise with you!

k8 IN REAL LIFE

when I'm AFK
(away from keyboard) …

You can find me somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife Zoë and my black lab puppy Cosmo. I still love theatre and live music, I've been known to tap-it-back at Soulcycle studios, I love to travel, and I'm pretty into houseplants, video games, matcha lattes and smoky mezcal cocktails.

My favorite tv show will probably always be LOST - and recently I've been super jazzed about the new NWSL team BayFC! #BLegendary

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