Hi, I'm Molly.

Company and community builder, speaker, writer, and life-long Muppets fan.

I've spent most of my career inside fast-moving, messy, ambitious companies—usually trying to hold up the walls while everything scaled, broke, or changed around me. I'm probably best known for coining "Give Away Your Legos," a framework for what it actually feels like to grow inside a company that's outpacing itself.

I led operations at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Quip, and Lambda School. And spent five years at Facebook during the rocketship years, shaping mobile strategy, building people systems, and trying to keep the wheels on. I've coached founders, advised startups, joined boards, and made just about every leadership mistake in the book. Often more than once.

At some point, I realized I was less interested in building companies and more interested in the humans inside them. The ones doing the unglamorous work, navigating impossible trade-offs, and trying to lead without losing themselves.

These days, I interview interesting people about work and life on the aptly named WorkLife podcast with TED, and create spaces where leaders can actually be honest about how hard it is.

When I’m offline, I’m usually spending time outdoors (fun fact: my first job was being a wilderness expeditions instructor) or taste-testing ice cream to support my entrepreneurial husband's latest pursuits (tough role, I know.) I live in San Francisco with Alan (aforementioned husband), two kids, and a dog who’s in denial about being a dog.