Two years ago, I didn’t start a business. I started healing. The week I officially went freelance, I was burnt out.Hurt from getting laid off and looking for an escape.Looking for a reason not to rush back into another in-house job. If I’m honest, I didn’t know what I wanted. Freelancing felt like an excuse.An…
Most people outside of Marketing Ops assume the hard part is the platform work: learning the tools, building workflows, setting up reports, migrating systems. And yes, that work can be complex. It requires focus, technical skill, and attention to detail. But once you’ve done it a few times, that complexity becomes familiar. What doesn’t become…
A quiet parenting milestone that changed everything (and nothing) Over the last ten days, something shifted in our home — not loudly, but deeply. First, my three-year-old daughter stopped wearing diapers. After six and a half years of diapers in our household, they’re gone. Just like that. Then, just this past Wednesday, she gave up…
On January 21, our MOPros Europe chapter kicked off the year with a simple prompt: New Year, New Goals. The format was intentionally conversational — and it delivered. We were joined by Frans Riemersma (founder of MartechTribe), who shared what he’s seeing for 2026: not just more AI, but a deeper shift in how we…
Why I’m writing this I’ve spent the last several years working at the intersection of Marketing Operations, MarTech, and revenue teams, in-house, as a consultant, and alongside marketing teams across Europe and beyond. As a French-based Marketing Operations professional working primarily with international organizations, I’ve often found myself translating not just tools or processes, but…
This week I had the joy of joining Alok Jain on his podcast to talk about one of my favorite topics: how to build marketing operations that actually work — for the business and for the humans running it. We covered a lot: data hygiene, migrations, European marketing ops, experimentation, creativity, and my personal favorite…
For a long time, I thought being “strategic” in Marketing Ops meant knowing every tool inside-out. I thought strategy was knowing every Marketo quirk, every lead lifecycle nuance, every conditional flow, every endpoint.The more technical I became, the more “strategic” people would see me. I was wrong. That realization didn’t come in a classroom or…
I didn’t wake up one morning and say, “Let’s build a Marketing Ops summit in Europe.” It was a slow build, the kind of knowing that settles in after enough moments where you realize: We need more rooms like the ones we already love. We just need one closer to home. Because here’s the truth…
In January 2024, I didn’t set out to build a business. I was laid off. My confidence was low, my direction unclear. I had two young kids, no job, and no plan — just a small seed of an idea: maybe I’d try freelancing for a bit while I figured out what I really wanted…
On 12 November, the European Marketing Operations community gathered for a relaxed, very human debrief of MOPsapalooza 2025. Forty-nine minutes later we’d laughed about jet lag, swapped highlights, and left with a short list of practical experiments to try at work. I co-hosted with Mihai Bejgu and Odd Morten Sørensen, with contributions from Aurélie, Maria,…
A few weeks ago, I got a message on LinkedIn from someone I didn’t know. Her name was Beth. She’s an expat. A freelancer. A mom of two. A fellow marketer. And she reached out because of a blog post I had written. She told me that her friend Philippe had sent it to her….
Since going freelance, I’ve learned more about Marketo and marketing ops than I did in over ten years of in-house roles. It’s not that I wasn’t learning before — it’s just that consulting has thrown me into a variety of setups, legacy issues, and creative workarounds that forced me to look at the platform in…
