Hi, I’m Erin

I help leaders build organizations that work better as they grow.

I have spent more than a decade growing strategic teams and operating in the messy middle of growth, from start-up through Fortune 500.

My work spanned client strategy, organizational leadership, team development, and the messy space where strategy meets execution. But the part I’m most interested in isn’t growth itself.

It’s what growth does to people and organizations.

That's the work I'm interested in.

The Second Seat exists to help leaders create leverage.

I work alongside leaders to identify the friction slowing their organizations down and build the clarity, operating rhythms, decision structures, and leadership practices that allow their teams to perform at a higher level.

Sometimes that means clarifying who owns what.

Sometimes it's improving how decisions get made.

Sometimes it's helping a leadership team navigate conflict they have been avoiding.

Sometimes it's recognizing that the founder, CEO, or senior leader has become the connective tissue holding too much of the organization together.

The solution isn't always another hire, another process, or another piece of software.

Often, it's getting much clearer about how the organization is supposed to work.

I believe the best organizations are deeply human.

Operational effectiveness and human effectiveness aren't separate disciplines.

Trust affects speed. Conflict affects execution. Role clarity affects accountability. Incentives affect behavior. Leadership behavior shapes culture long before a company writes down its values.

That's why my work sits at the intersection of people, leadership, and operations.

I'm interested in the systems that shape how people work together - and in giving leaders practical tools they can actually use when the meeting is over and the real work begins.

Today, I work with organizations through consulting, leadership workshops, facilitation, and speaking.

My approach is practical, curious, and grounded in a simple belief:

When talented people are struggling to execute, don't just look at the people. Look at the environment you've asked them to operate within.

A little more about me

Along with my corporate work, I'm also trained in organizational leadership through Harvard and conflict resolution and mediation through Cornell.

But most of what shapes my work comes from years spent inside growing organizations: leading people, advising executives, navigating ambiguity, working through conflict, building teams, and learning firsthand that the hardest organizational problems rarely fit neatly into an org chart.

The Second Seat is where I bring all of that together.