Apta Via Careers

“Apta Via” stands for “suitable path” in Latin. In my coaching, I honor the individuality of each client. I don’t offer cookie-cutter solutions. Instead, we build solutions that are suitable for your specific situation, goals, and neurotype, together.

Coach Millie

I am a decades-long Chicago resident who feels lucky to have landed in this amazing city. Living near a beautiful lake with miles of parks along its shores fills me with joy. I best like the summers and early fall when I visit beaches, a festival or two, take walks, and sometimes just sit in a park and enjoy the greenery with a home-made cortado in hand. Throughout the year, I socialize with my friends, walk or hike, read, and do family activities.

As a recovering Type-A overachiever, I have experienced various adventures and misadventures, personal and professional. I’ve been places and done things, made mistakes and learned lessons… the works. While I had a lot of fun doing science, it took me a long time to figure out how to move my career forward most effectively. This involved building skills and connections and, surprisingly, some inner work. It also took me too long to figure out how to structure the things I do – both for research and at home – to work with how my brain is wired. I’ve been immersed in the world of neurodivergence since 2021, but it took two years of intensive learning to be confident enough to implement changes that doubled my productivity, without burnout.

Appropriate mentoring could have shortened my path and spared me some bruises, but is not easy to come by. Learning from one’s own experience is a slow, slow process, and tenure clocks and grant cycles do not wait. I now use what I’ve learned to excel in my own work, and I work to make the on-ramp to success shorter for my clients.