Chief executive and board advisor to companies scaling through change.

For twenty years I've scaled businesses through their hardest chapters — growth, transition, reinvention — without breaking the culture that made them worth scaling.

Work with me My story
Impact

Two decades, measured.

$400Mrevenue scaled across three companies
1,200+people led at peak
5board seats held
2×successful exits guided
About me

Growth is easy to buy. Durable growth is a discipline.

I've spent my career in the seat where ambition meets reality — as an operator, a CEO, and now a board director and advisor. I've led a company through hypergrowth, guided another through a painful turnaround, and sat on the boards that decide which of those a business becomes.

What I've learned is unglamorous: the companies that endure are the ones that stay honest about their numbers and generous with their people. Culture and margin aren't a trade-off. The best years I've been part of had both, on purpose.

Today I invest my time where I can be most useful — a handful of boards, a few founders I believe in, and the leaders coming up behind me who deserve a straight answer.

Experience

The seats I've held.

2020 — Present

Board Director & Operating Advisor

Multiple boards · Growth-stage & PE-backed

Advise CEOs and boards on scaling, leadership, and the hard calls. Chair two compensation committees and mentor a cohort of first-time founders.

2014 — 2020

Chief Executive Officer

Meridian Group · Consumer services

Took the company from $90M to $310M in revenue and led it to a successful acquisition — while lifting employee engagement to a company high.

2009 — 2014

Chief Operating Officer

Harbor & Vale · Multi-unit operator

Rebuilt operations during a turnaround, restoring profitability across 40 locations without the layoffs everyone assumed were coming.

2004 — 2009

VP, Operations

Early operating roles

Grew from regional manager to the executive table — the years that taught me the business from the floor up.

"Eleanor is the rare leader boards trust in the calm and the crisis alike. She makes the hard decision early, and she brings the room with her."
Marcus BellBoard Chair, Meridian Group
Advisory

Ways we might work together.

I.

Board & Governance

Independent director and advisor to boards navigating growth, transition, or succession — with candor and a steady hand.

II.

CEO Advisory

A trusted outside voice for chief executives facing the decisions that don't have a clean answer. Confidential, direct, invested.

III.

Leadership & Keynotes

Talks and workshops on durable growth and culture-led leadership, drawn from the seat, not the slide deck.

Get in touch

Let's talk about what's next.

Whether it's a board seat, a founder who needs a sounding board, or a room that needs a keynote — I'd be glad to hear from you.

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