About KiKi

I was sitting in a room at a retreat — a Clarity Weekend, the kind of thing you go to when you're trying to figure out what's next. The facilitator asked me what I was working on. I told her I wasn't ready to launch anything new. I was comfortable. I was happy with stability. Things were good.

Two weeks later, I was unexpectedly laid off.

I'd been sitting in a room built for the question of what happens when things change — and I'd answered it from the part of me that didn't think the question applied to me yet. That's the part of the story that stays with me. Not the layoff. The two weeks before it, when I was certain I had time.

Things Go Sideways is for the person in those two weeks. Not the person already in crisis. Not the person who's processed it and come out the other side. The person who doesn't know yet — who's stable, comfortable, doing the work — and is about to meet something they didn't plan for. The question isn't whether the disruption is coming. It's whether you have the internal infrastructure to stay functional when it lands.

I host the Things Go Sideways podcast and speak at events where leaders are looking for language that's honest enough to hold under pressure. Most of my work happens inside organizations going through transitions they didn't plan for — funding cliffs, leadership shifts, restructurings, the kind of disruption nobody puts on a strategy slide. 

I live in Wenonah, New Jersey. The best conversations I have aren't in conference rooms — which is part of why this show sounds the way it does.