Her Story
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth is a technology strategist, change management expert, and entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience helping organizations navigate complex digital transformations. Since beginning her career in technology in 2003, she has specialized in enterprise systems, data management, process improvement, and large-scale technology implementations across industries including healthcare, telecommunications, hospitality, and insurance. Known for her ability to solve complex operational challenges, Elizabeth combines technical expertise with a people-centered approach to help organizations improve performance, reduce risk, and create sustainable change.
As Founder of FrostWare Solutions, Elizabeth serves as a Fractional CTO, AI and automation consultant, and digital transformation advisor. She works with organizations to rescue struggling ERP implementations, modernize business processes, and successfully adopt emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. She is also the creator of the FrostWear Visual Task Guidance System (VTGS), an innovative framework designed to improve workforce training, accessibility, and productivity for diverse employee populations, including non-native language speakers, neurodivergent individuals, and hearing-impaired workers. Her consulting approach integrates strategic planning, technology optimization, and human-centered design to ensure that technology serves people—not the other way around.
Beyond her consulting work, Elizabeth is a passionate advocate for reimagining the future of work. She developed the concept of “Enterprise Anthropology,” a framework that examines organizations as living systems and focuses on aligning workplace structures with how people naturally learn, communicate, and collaborate. A lifelong learner and active community volunteer, she continues to expand her expertise in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and leadership development while championing workplace cultures that foster engagement, clarity, and meaningful work. Her mission is simple: help organizations solve big problems, empower their people, and create environments where both businesses and employees can thrive.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Elizabeth
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to hearing the words, 'I would like to give you a raise- but you're not worth the $5 an hour that we pay you.'
I have never heard more motivating words in my life. Hearing that I wasn't worth the $5 an hour that they paid me when *I* knew that I was grossly under engaged, it changed something in my 17 year old brain. I had been there for 3 years without elevation and knew something wasn't right. It put a fire underneath me to get motivated, serious; to dial in. That early change in perspective lead me to be an executive of a construction company by 25. Now, 20 years later, a second career in IT has seen me through multiple projects that affect humanity greatly. I am so glad that my manager and I were at odds. Had she never spoken up, I may have stayed in a life of mediocrity.
She should have done a better job, but for me, at that age, hearing that was confirmation that I really needed to polish my work and button up or no one would ever take me seriously. Those small words put me on a lifelong path to knowledge, learning, and adventure. When, at the end of my days, I am lying there, I want to be an empty husk, having lived every part of life I could, as best as I can. In the course, maybe I can help another human find something or do something great within themselves as well.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
"Go live up north to toughen your skin. You're too soft"
Why? Because doing business in the south is vastly different from the north. You can't do business in the south the same way you do in the north. They northerners will eat you alive. Things move faster, people are more direct, things aren't as occult (hidden).
It was 100% true. My first project in the north was an emotional disaster. I needed to get tough and working in the north made that happen.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
-Listen to your gut- and don't hesitate on the action it dictates; ignoring or hesitation could get you fired, setup or worse.
No matter what. 100% of the time. Act with discernment. Act with character, and credibility, but ACT.
-Keep a poker face. All the time. Don't ever give away your spot or talk too much. Silence is better.
-Women are parts per million. If one woman is at the helm of the floor, be her helper, not a hindrance. It was her queendom before you came. Now, you are a lady in waiting. Don't be crass and shallow. Have a concern and it will take you much farther. Use honey, as they say.
-Information on a NEED TO KNOW basis only. Don't tell everyone everything. Not everyone is your friend. Especially those who are nice to you. I'm sorry, this is the law of nature.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The biggest challenges are AI, which is probably the number one challenge. The second challenge is the people who are running businesses, our leaders, the C-suite of every corporation on the planet. All of them have ideas about what they think AI is, and they all have, of course, the ego. They all have ideas, and all of their ideas are the best. But really, Merriam-Webster defines an expert as someone who has done the same thing every day for 10 years. We haven't had AI for 10 years yet. We don't have experts yet. It's not old enough, it's not mature enough. So when I hear the term AI expert, my eyeballs hit my brain, they're rolling so hard. There's no AI expert out there. I mean, you have people who build it, but there are a lot of people who are playing the game. The biggest challenge right now is wading through reality and trying to discern what is real reality versus what is projected reality. You see a lot of things online about this consulting business and this coaching business and this AI thing. Well, if it's just people selling to other coaches and other C-suites and other AI companies, then essentially it's an MLM, it's just a multi-level marketing scheme, it's a Ponzi scheme, and that's a bubble, it's gonna burst. The sooner that we can get some guardrails on it, the sooner that we can start speaking a true, clear narrative about the reality of what's going on in the trenches of workers, and we relearn how human beings work. We've forgotten how human beings work, and we just don't know, we're lost right now, and we need someone to have a come to the table and take a deep breath, let's get the landscape and figure this out.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Integrity is number one. Empathy is number 2. And organization are my top 3 things that comprise everything that I am and all that I do.
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