MEET THERESE
I spent more than 20 years working in healthcare, including a decade leading teams, navigating complex systems, managing high-stakes decisions, and collaborating across nearly every corner of an organization.
Today, I advise CEOs, executive teams, and owner-operators, facilitate executive roundtables across industries, and help organizations solve the people and process challenges that slow execution.
Working both inside organizations and alongside executive leaders has shown me one thing:
The organizations with the smartest people don't always perform the best.
Work gets stuck.
Projects slow down. Decisions stall. Teams work hard but struggle to move important work forward.
That's what led me to create Security Stacking® and focus my work on helping organizations identify friction, improve how work moves across teams, and equip leaders with practical strategies that create lasting momentum.
THE CREDIBILITY STUFF
WHAT SHAPES MY PERSPECTIVE
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More than 20 years working inside complex healthcare organizations, including a decade leading teams through operational, regulatory, and organizational change.
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Today, I advise CEOs, executive teams, and owner-operators while facilitating executive roundtables across industries, giving me a front-row seat to the leadership challenges organizations are facing right now.
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My work is grounded in real operational experience, not theory. Everything I teach is designed to help leaders improve execution and move work forward.
BEYOND THE STAGE
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Crime podcasts
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Reading
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Hiking
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Dancing
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Friends (yes, the TV show)
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Laughing until I cry
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Spending time with my family (and ...Buster, my favorite. 😉)
SPEAKER
EXECUTIVE ADVISOR
AUTHOR
DOG MOM
BUSTER
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WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
PRACTICAL & ACTIONABLE
Every session is built around practical ideas leaders can use immediately. I combine real-world leadership experience with research and proven strategies to help audiences solve the people and process challenges that slow execution.
ENGAGING & RELATABLE
I believe people learn best when they see themselves in the conversation. Through humor, real stories, and honest examples, I create sessions that are interactive, memorable, and grounded in the realities leaders face every day.
CUSTOMIZED & EASY TO WORK WITH
Every keynote, workshop, and leadership engagement is customized to your audience and your goals. I partner closely with organizers to make the planning process simple, collaborative, and stress-free from our first conversation through the final applause.
THE LESSON THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
The Leader I Thought I Had To Be
When I became a leader, I thought I had to have all the answers.
I thought I had to have all the answers.
I thought leadership meant being the smartest person in the room.
I thought confidence came first...
...I thought good leadership would naturally follow.
I was wrong.
Over the next decade I learned something most leadership books never teach.
Organizations don't slow down because leaders don't care. They slow down because work gets buried under unclear priorities, unnecessary friction, competing expectations, and decisions nobody owns. That realization changed the way I lead.
Today, that lesson shapes every keynote I deliver, every workshop I facilitate, and every executive team I work with. Because leadership isn't about having all the answers. It's about creating the clarity that helps work move forward.
BECAUSE LEADERSHIP ISN'T MY WHOLE PERSONALITY!
OBSESSES WITH CRIME PODCASTS
ODDLY FINDS DOING LAUNDRY RELAXING
WANTED TO BE JANE GOODALL GROWING UP
GROWS MOST OF HER OWN VEGETABLES
HATES LIZARDS
HUGE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND FAN
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
l had the pleasure of hearing Therese discuss the barriers and methods to improve communication. She was knowledgeable, charismatic, and engaging. I learned so much during her presentation that I can apply to my professional life and highly recommend her for future speaking engagements.
AMI CHATRATH, DO
Psychiatrist & Cofounder. wiseMlND