Profile of Success: Mission Accomplished

BIGGEST INITIAL CHALLENGE: Balancing change and the history of Montessori Services. After joining Montessori last June, Killeen was challenged to reinvigorate the 31-year-old company while at the same time trying not to offend the people who had worked there for so long to build it up.

“Making changes while respecting the brand’s history and the knowledge of the people here,” Killeen says, was a big challenge. She sought to find a balance between “not losing the integrity of what had already been built while changing things to make them more efficient.”