Hello & welcome 🙂

I’m Jessica, a strategic communicator with 15+ years of experience in internal communications, employee engagement, and storytelling that inspires alignment and action.

I’m a newly single mom, navigating my (late!) 40’s with a teenager and two lovable mutts. Oh, and if that wasn’t enough, I’m also in grad school. This space is meant to be part journal, and the vulnerable ugly bits that come with it, and part portfolio, to showcase my creative and professional writing chops. But you can always count on me to be genuine, showing up in my authentic self. I’ve spent a lot of years working on that person, and I’m not about to hide her now.

In the wake of Covid, like so many other women of my generation, I was diagnosed with ADHD. Numerous impulsive decisions – a new house AND a new dog! – coupled with a sense of constant unease and sense of dread led me to the doctor. After years of working in offices, with people and teams around me, not to mention constant accountability, I floundered when I found myself working from home. I thought that was the dream – to be home and to work. To make meals for my family, to be home for my daughter, or to walk the dogs at lunch seemed like the work-life balance I was craving. Instead, I spent hours staring at a computer screen with mounting anxiety, willing myself to ‘just do the thing!’. Friends, the thing did not get done. I did, however, learn to strip my bedsheets and towels 🤷‍♀️

So after some conversations with my doctor, I started to get back on track. I started to understand why I went undiagnosed for so long, I learned how to (sometimes!) harness the strengths of ADHD. And I started giving myself just a bit of grace, because neurodiversity in a typical workplace is like trying to fit a square block in a circle hole. You can technically squeeze it in there, but it’s very obvious to everyone that it’s not a very good fit. My diagnosis reshaped how I understood my brain, my work, and my parenting. It gave me language for the way I process complexity, problems, and interpersonal relationships. It also deepened my commitment to building communication systems that support neurodiverse thinkers and make information accessible to everyone.

Side note: I recently completed a paper on neurodiversity in the workplace, you can give it a read HERE, if you’re so inclined!

I believe people don’t just need information—they need clarity, context, and compassion. My strength lies in helping people feel seen, informed, and inspired, even in the midst of uncertainty or change. These traits fuel my work as a communicator: someone who brings structure without rigidity, vision without ego, and storytelling without fluff.

The real trick is trying not to make ADHD my whole personality 🧠 It is certainly a part of who I am, but I am so much more! You can expect to read more about my ADHD adventure, here, mishaps and milestones in parenting & life, and I’m going to throw in a bit of my professional expertise too. I hope you’ll stick around to find out more about me 🙂

Yours, in connection,

Jess