About Emily

We're all more than our LinkedIn profiles, but sometimes it's hard to look past that. To some, what they know about me are my accolades: I graduated early from a top university after earning scholarships as the top female student, established my own 6-figure design agency, collaborated with the UN on meaningful artwork, wrote my own book, co-founded a startup, and am now ex-Goldman Sachs and McKinsey, working in FinTech. I was one of the privileged individuals whose LinkedIn inbox was always flooded with headhunters and coffee chat invitations. As one of the privileged individuals lucky enough to have the opportunities I landed, I want to also use my experiences to be a platform for conversations about mental wellbeing in high-achieving environments. I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety at 11, involuntarily held in a mental hospital at 16 for a third attempted suicide, and asked to drop out of university at 18 due to my eating disorder condition. While speaking at multiple mental health conferences, I've also taken time off of my professional life to seek rehab and therapy, and I still don't have all the answers. My work in mental health awareness hopes that others will not need to struggle through what I have to understand our very human experiences. I use my current platform to connect with individuals who are also still trying to find the answers. Whether in my eclectic collection of working experiences or my ever-growing story with mental health, I find purpose through sharing my experiences and making the professional world a little bit more human. Professionally, I am happy to chat about any of the intersections of my experiences: prestige, consulting, finance, design, start-up, and more. Personally, I am honored to help share thoughts with you so we can both find some more answers to the questions holding us back.