April 26, 2026
The career advice I ignored, and why I'm glad I did
On paper it looks like I couldn't make up my mind. In reality, every single pivot was intentional.
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Michele Stange
Strategist · Scaler · Systems Thinker
Most people are either big-picture thinkers or detail operators. Michele Stange refuses the choice.
She's been an engineer, a technical program manager, a Chief of Staff, a product manager, and an operations leader, not because she couldn't pick a lane, but because she wanted to understand how all the lanes connect. That cross-functional fluency is what she brings to every room: the ability to think at the vision level and immediately translate it into the decisions, structures, and momentum that make it real.
Her conviction: process doesn't execute strategy. People do. She's spent her career figuring out how to get smart people aligned, build momentum, and make hard things happen.