About Me
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Coaching
Helping you discover your next phase
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Business Consulting
Your helping hand for scaling your business
Nice to meet you!
I’m Nancy Cremins. Maybe you’re wondering why you might want to work with me. Can I relate? Will I be helpful? Let me tell you a little about myself so you can decide.
I grew up in Greater Boston and have lived here my whole life. I’m the daughter of 2 Irish immigrant parents who taught me that working hard and doing well in school are incredibly important. I was also an athlete, having played soccer, basketball, and softball from childhood through the varsity level in high school (relevant to my current love of sports and my competitive spirit).
I’m a graduate of Boston College and Northeastern University School of Law.
I’m a lawyer.
After graduating from law school in 2003, I joined a large law firm in Boston where I started my practice focused on litigation and employment law.
In 2008, I became a mom for the first time. A few months later, I was laid off from that law firm during the Great Recession.
In 2009, I joined another Boston law firm where I continued my litigation and employment work and began working with startups and entrepreneurs. I also became a mom for a second time in 2010.
During my years in private practice, I commuted 2 hours a day, worked hard to be a strong advocate for my clients, and did my best to be an engaged member of the legal community. I served on the board of the Women’s Bar Association for 14 years, including as its President from 2011-2012. My involvement in the WBA was transformational to my legal career and my life as a result of the relationships I made with other women lawyers and my understanding of the profound influence the law has on our society.
I was promoted to partner at my firm in 2015. Won a few awards along the way. Raised my kids. Didn’t sleep much. Got shingles in my eye (as an exhausted parent does…). I focused more on my work with startups, helping them lay a good legal foundation on which to build their companies so they could grow.
If you are a lawyer and you want someone who understands your experiences to coach you to what is next, let’s talk.
I’m a builder.
Not the block building kind, the company and community building kind (though I have stepped on my fair share of Legos…).
My work with the entrepreneurial community as a lawyer led me to create SheStarts in 2014. SheStarts was founded to create a community for women entrepreneurs (something that was lacking) in the Boston area to help them grow their businesses and have a supportive community on their entrepreneurial journey. We created something from nothing holding regular events, both social and skill-building, and hosting SheDemos, a pitch competition, featuring women-founded companies.
In 2016, I left private practice and joined a startup myself as one of the first 10 employees. Serving as General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer, I helped Globalization Partners grow to a large global company with hundreds of employees worldwide. I learned that I was really good at making order out of chaos, and I liked it.
I’m a coach.
My kids got older, my parents got older, I got older, and it became time for another change. I left Globalization Partners in February 2020, expecting to take a little time off and then find my next startup. Except, well… Covid… So I became a home school teacher to my 2 kids, one who is a non-standard learner (so I also served as an untrained paraprofessional…). And I helped my parents through some health challenges and then my Dad’s cancer and eventual passing in January 2021. The journey was a challenging one and changed me profoundly.
During the pandemic, I spent a lot of time thinking about “my purpose” (among the many other things we lived through…). What I realized is the work that resonated throughout my career was helping others find their own paths to success. This realization brought me to coaching. I attended Brown University to obtain my leadership and performance coaching certification to hone the technical skills to better help others turn their goals into action plans.
Life is messy and so are we. Never more so than over the last few years. If you would like to explore what coaching can do for you, I’d love to help.