"You’re as busy as you’ve ever been, and yet hardly get anything done"

- Cal Newport

Man attending a Virtual Team Meeting from his desk

Something’s off, but you can't quite put your finger on what

No one has time. Everything feels reactive. Meetings keep happening, but decisions don’t stick. People are overwhelmed, but no one can name exactly why. You know you need to reevaluate how your team works, but it always gets bumped for something “more urgent.”

I can help you!

I design and facilitate virtual workshops that help remote and hybrid teams fix the invisible problems dragging them down. Broken collaboration. Murky ownership. Endless switching between tasks. Misalignment that festers into frustration. I help teams make space to face these challenges and find better ways forward.

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This is my story

Why couldn’t I concentrate? The task wasn’t even that hard. But my body was looking for ways to escape it, like it couldn’t bear to stay focused for too long. This wasn’t like me. I don’t procrastinate. I finish things. I handle pressure. I juggle multiple projects without blinking. So what was going on?

Turns out: burnout.

For me, it wasn’t a dramatic crash. It was mental. Quiet. Like a fog rolling in over my ability to think. At its worst, I could focus for maybe ten minutes before my brain tapped out. When I finally admitted that I couldn’t keep pushing through, I also knew a long holiday wouldn’t cut it. I didn’t just need rest. I needed to question everything; how I worked, what I valued, what I was even working toward. And I couldn’t do that in the same environment that had pushed me to burnout in the first place.

Fast forward two years.

These days, I live in a tiny mountain village in Sardinia. I fetch water from a spring. I tend to my garden. I trade food scraps for eggs with my chickens. I work outside in the morning while the sun is still kind. I take proper breaks. I climb rocks.

Life is slower. Life is more.

And while this lifestyle isn’t for everyone, it forced me to see what burnout really is: not a personal failure, but a systems failure. And once I saw that, I started seeing it everywhere.

Mathilda Weibel in Ulassai Sardinia looking up at people climbing in the canyo

Two people tired and burnout from too many meetings staring at their computer screens

Same patterns. Different teams

I began noticing how the same things that burned me out were quietly burning out entire teams. No space to think. Just back-to-back tasks and meetings. No accounting for the admin overhead (emails, context-switching, follow-ups). No clarity on what really matters, or how to move it forward.

Not everyone hits a wall like I did. But I’ve worked with enough teams to know when the early signs are there: Disengagement, decision fatigue, back-to-back calls, lack of real progress masked by constant busyness.

It’s not because people don’t care.
It’s because the way they’re working isn’t working.

I’ve always cared about how people work together

Growing up, my parents both managed teams. Conversations about job satisfaction and leadership were standard dinner topics. Once I joined the workforce, I immediately took an interest in my team’s wellbeing. I started organizing team-building sessions, experimenting with workshops, creating space for play and games. And I loved it.

Over the years, I went from organizing small offsites to designing strategy retreats for entire cross-regional departments. When I left corporate life, this was the part I missed the most, so I kept doing it. First for family, then friends, then for strangers I met in European climbing hostels. (Yes, really).

What I realized is this: most leaders know they need to invest in team culture and collaboration, but it's time consuming and conflicts with other urgent priorities. So the responsibility gets handed off to someone else. And that person? Already stretched thin. They’re not a facilitator. They do not possess my insatiable hunger to organize team events. They’re just someone who got tasked with planning a “team session.”

And that’s why I started Align’d.