About

I’m Jeanie. I live in Littleton, Colorado, with my husband and a full, loud, beautiful family that keeps me grounded and occasionally exhausted.

I’ve spent most of my adult life building things: teams, cultures, communities. I was a Starbucks store and district manager for years, which sounds like a coffee job but was really a people job. I learned that the way you make someone feel on a Tuesday morning at 6am matters. That belonging isn’t a perk, it’s the whole point.

Along the way I helped build Rock Tri Club, a local triathlon community of over 200 members — mostly moms, dads, and community sponsors who raced and trained together. From that, I co-founded StrideMob, because I wanted to go deeper on events. StrideMob hosted over 12 running races a year, plus a weekly run club and free adventure outings like snowshoe trips, 14er climbs, hiking, biking. The outings were how we built belonging. For a lot of people, showing up on a trail with us was what made it feel safe to eventually show up at a start line. It ran for six years before COVID ended it.

I write about leadership and culture, specifically the gap between what organizations say they value and how they actually behave. I’m interested in what it means to lead with real kindness rather than conflict-avoidance, and why people give their best effort to some places and phone it in at others.

When I’m not thinking about that, I’m outside. I ride, I hike, I strength train. I’m working toward a solo thru-hike of the Tahoe Rim Trail, which is 165 miles and will either be the hardest thing I’ve ever done or the most clarifying. Maybe both.

This site is where my work lives. The writing, the adventures, the thinking-out-loud. It’s mine, and that matters to me.