About
The story behind us
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Dawn
First light
FlowShiftWaveMind started in the autumn of 2019 when Mara Sollis left a senior strategy role at a mid-sized logistics firm in Portland and decided she was done writing recommendat…
Morning
09:00
The name came from a conversation with that first client, who described his best decisions as moments when everything shifted at once, like a wave changing direction. Mara liked t…
Sunrise
Keeps mornings for deep work, afternoons for calls, never the other way around
Bright
Works with six to ten clients at a time, by design, not by accident
High sun
Delivers a one-page written summary after every session, no exceptions
Warm
Will tell you when your problem is not the problem you think it is
Amber
Does not use proprietary frameworks or branded methodologies
Mara Sollis
Founder
Mara Sollis founded FlowShiftWaveMind in 2019 after six years in strategy and operations at a Portland-based logistics firm. She holds an MBA from the University of Oregon, where she wrote her thesis on decision-making under ambiguity in small teams. Before consulting, she spent two years as an in-house strategist for a regional healthcare network, which taught her more about organisational inertia than any textbook. She is a slow reader who takes notes in the margins, a habit she has carried into client work. On most mornings she walks the same three-mile loop before opening her laptop, and she credits that walk with most of her better ideas.
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