In schools, organizations, and companies, overwhelm is often mislabeled as ambition.
Burnout gets reframed as resilience. And career pathways are built without accounting for identity, trauma, or lived experience.
Work Worth Wellness Co. exists to interrupt that pattern.
I partner with institutions that are ready to rethink how work, learning, and career readiness actually function – not as abstract frameworks, but as lived experiences for students, staff, and leaders.
This work is not about individual performance. It’s about designing systems that allow people to do meaningful work without erasing themselves in the process.
Through custom, collaborative engagements, we look at:
» How WBL and career pathways are currently experienced by students – especially those navigating marginalization, transition, or non-linear trajectories
» Where vocational readiness is being taught without vocational wellness
» How trauma, survival intelligence, and invisible labor show up in classrooms, internships, and leadership roles
» What staff are carrying (emotionally, operationally, and structurally) to keep systems moving
» Where equity goals exist in language, but not yet in design
I partner with high schools, community-based organizations, startups, and mission-driven companies navigating the real work of career design.
This isn’t program implementation for the sake of growth. It’s career design and vocational strategy built to hold up under real conditions.
Let’s talk when:
» WBL initiatives need refinement, not expansion
» Career design efforts feel disconnected from lived student realities
» Leadership wants to build pathways that don’t replicate harm, burnout, or inequity
» Companies want to support career wellness without defaulting to surface-level professional development
All organizational work is custom-designed and scoped through conversation. We begin by understanding the system you’re responsible for, and the people it’s meant to serve, before recommending next steps.
Engagements are often centered around:
» WBL and career pathway strategy
» Trauma-informed vocational wellness for staff and educators
» Capacity-building for program leaders and leadership teams
» Career design frameworks rooted in equity and sustainability
» Workshops and learning experiences for schools, organizations, and companies
Schedule an
Inquiry Call
Each engagement begins with a scoping conversation
to understand your goals, constraints, and context.
From there, I design a customized approach, whether that’s
a short-term advisory, a workshop series, or a longer-term partnership.
I help people navigate systems
that normalize overwhelm and call it ambition.
I’m Vicky – strategist, storyteller, and systems-minded guide for quiet leaders and multi-lane thinkers who know they’re capable of more, but refuse to burn themselves out proving it.
My work lives at the intersection of narrative strategy, vocational design, and systems thinking. I help people organize their body of work, claim their authority, and build strategies that are coherent, sustainable, and aligned with how they actually live and lead.
I hold a Master’s degree in Education with a focus on Instructional Design and Educational Technology, and I’m currently completing a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) in Strategy and Innovation, where my research centers on how strategy succeeds (or collapses) when capacity, context, and human complexity are ignored. I study how people learn, how systems shape behavior, and how decisions land when constraints are in play.
Alongside my private practice, I work inside education systems, currently at a transfer high school, where outcomes aren’t hypothetical and design choices have real consequences. That lived proximity to institutions informs everything I do, especially my work in work-based learning, trauma-informed vocational strategy, and career design that honors both ambition and sustainability.
Over the last 20+ years, I’ve worked across media, education, startups, and workforce development, collaborating with organizations including NBCUniversal, Vme TV, FIU’s Ratcliffe Startup Studio, NYC Department of Small Business Services, The Alley, and The Latinista.
I believe success isn’t something you chase harder – it’s something that comes into focus when you finally adjust the lens.
My work lives at the intersection of education, business, and culture.
