Rachel Blair is a 📝Los Angeles operations 🏷️#executive specializing in client operations, systems consolidation, and team enablement for confidential, high-touch care businesses. From 2022 to 2026 she was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of ALYST Health, A Catalyst Recovery Company, an in-home addiction-recovery and intervention company serving musicians, artists, executives, and actors. She ran its finance, HR, technology, and client operations, managed a multidisciplinary team of physicians, therapists, and contractors, and led the company's orderly closure in September 2026.

Before ALYST, she spent more than a decade at CitizenNet, a social media advertising technology company acquired by Condé Nast. As operations manager (2011–2017) she helped integrate the company into Condé Nast after the acquisition; as Director of Operations (2017–2022) she tracked KPIs for the CEO and COO, supervised a team of 30+, and cut project turnaround time by 15% by redesigning workflows. She was also executive assistant to Mike McGinley at SRO Consultants, after earlier administrative roles at Noble & Associates and PodMerchant, Inc. Independently, she designs and leads wellness and community gatherings, including women's circles, and builds visual SOPs and operating frameworks, including a full operating framework for a hospitality business. Her toolset spans 📝Notion, 📝Airtable, Slack, Google Workspace, QuickBooks Online, and Gusto. She studied Excel and project management at College of the Canyons and is a recipient of Soroptimist International's "Live Your Dream" Award.

Contexts

• 🏷️#rachel-blair (this is the 📝Root Memo)
• 🏷️#human-parent (x2)
• 🏷️#orange-sticky (See: 📝My Sticky Wall)