The people behind the practice

Miriam spent eleven years in operations roles before founding StratEdge, the last six as VP of Operations at a regional grocery wholesaler, where she was responsible for 300 employees across three distribution centers. There she learned that most “strategy problems” are actually operating problems wearing a nicer suit: the plan looked fine in the deck, but orders still slipped because nobody owned the handoff between scheduling and shipping.

She left to start StratEdge in 2016 with a narrow thesis: growth-stage companies between roughly ten and five hundred employees rarely need a full-time executive for the problem in front of them, but they often need senior judgment for six to twelve weeks. Since then the firm has completed more than 120 engagements across retail, software, healthcare, and light manufacturing, typically working directly with the founder or COO rather than through layers.

Miriam holds an MBA from a public university and teaches a workshop on operating cadence at a local business school each spring. She writes most of the firm’s essays on strategy and operations, several of which have been picked up by industry newsletters.