Leadership and Design Consulting and Mentorship for Entrepreneurs, Visionaries, and Creatives
Founder of Life Alive Cafés.Designer of Hearth Food Garden.
Now I help independent founders open, revive, and systematize businesses with soul —so they thrive without consuming you.
I’ve built what you’re trying to build. Beautiful spaces that actually run.Soul is not the opposite of operations.
I work with purpose driven creativeswho are ready to move beyond short-term fixesand build resilient enterprises grounded inpeople, clarity, and long-term vision.
Entrepreneurs
You're opening a restaurant, café, shop, studio, or wellness space — or you already have one — and it's working on paper but has lost its pulse. You care about purpose and you care about margin, and you're tired of being told to choose. Every decision still routes through you. You want a business that makes money without consuming you. “Balance” feels unattainable.
Visionaries
You have a concept and purpose that go well beyond the commonplace. Cookie-cutter solutions don't fit, and you're overwhelmed, growing fast, and crave clarity. You prize agility and creativity. You need systems that steady you without flattening the thing that makes this yours. You want AI, tech, and your team to supercharge your assets, not drain them — and you want what you've built to outlast your daily involvement.
Leaders
You want to magnetize, motivate, and retain the best and brightest — and trust that your mission is felt as deeply by your team as by you. But, you're hiring again, and the person you're replacing was good. Your strongest could go further (but you don't have the time to take them there) while your weakest are poisoning the culture because you’re understaffed. You want to walk in on a Tuesday and find your vision running beautifully — not because anyone's being watched, but because they've made it theirs.
What I do
Culture & Systems Facilitation
Build the Team & Systems
On boarding, training manuals, standard ops, culture building, and hiring frameworks that hold your standards when you’re not in the room so you can work ON your business, not IN it.
Learn MoreLeadership Mentoring
Steady the Founder
Private strategic mentoring for the person carrying it all. Clarity, sage-grounded decision making, and an experienced witness who has been there before and won’t sugar-coat.
Learn MoreHuman Centered Design
Design the Space
Rooms people don’t want to leave - and that work operationally. Layout, flow, efficiency, materials, light, way finding, and the tiny details that eliminate friction and inspire loyalty, while making it feel like it has always been there, often without a full remodel.
Learn More“Working with Heidi was amazing from the start. Her energy, positive vibes, clear vision, and her incredible way of bringing our brand to life was simply brilliant!”
Robert Ozorian, Hearth Food Garden
What I bring
- I founded and scaled a pioneering organic QSR chain with 40% annual EBITDA growth
- I achieved 5% turnover and 2% waste in the hospitality industry
- My restaurants were repeatedly named one of Zagat’s Top 100 Restaurants in the US
- I earned Best of Boston recognition from Boston Magazine and TimeOut Magazine, North Shore Magazine every year I owned the company
- I capitalized and designed 15,000 sq ft community food hall
- I build places that people travel over two hours to visit regularly.
Our new world order calls for new leaders who value the human while innovating with integrity.
Now more than ever, we need you to step into your power and build your vision..
Join me in progress and solidarity.
Where connection cultivates growth
Food for Thought
September 18, 2026
Struggling Enterprises Don't Need a New Strategy. They Need a Rooted Leader.
When an enterprise is struggling, the instinct is to restructure. The real fix almost always starts somewhere else: with the leader reconnecting to purpose. A field guide to healing a business from the inside out.
Read MoreMay 12, 2026
You Don't Need Another Coach.
Ready to Stop Choosing Between Success and a Life You Love? Find out What a Coach Does vs. What a Vision Partner Does at Rooted Vision Studio.
Read MoreMarch 30, 2026
Rooted in Purpose: Building Endurance in an Unpredictable World
It has never been easier to start a company, and yet, it has never been harder to build one that lasts. The barriers to entry have diminished, but the barriers to endurance are higher than ever.
Read MoreFebruary 11, 2026
The Discipline of the Pause: What I Learned the Hard Way
We live in a culture that equates speed with intelligence and exhaustion with commitment. I built multiple businesses inside that belief system.
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