Bailey is, by her own description, the most type-B, type-A person you’ll ever meet. Turns out that’s a superpower in project management.
Bailey grew up on the Kansas side of the KC Metro, where everyone, including her, spent most of their adolescence wanting to leave. She eventually came around. If Paul Rudd and Jason Sudeikis could claim Kansas City, she could too. These days, she lives on the Missouri side (the objectively cooler side) and wouldn’t have it any other way.
She got her start with a marketing internship at a retail marketing company out of high school, which led to five summers of experience that got her foot in the door at an agency with a history degree in hand. Since then, she’s spent her career in account and project management roles at various KC agencies, with a heavy focus on website and app design and development. She came to FieldWrk without any ties to the construction and infrastructure world, and has since discovered that the Dirt World is genuinely cool, watching local clients make a real impact on her city and the communities around it in ways she never expected to care about.
At FieldWrk, Bailey’s role is equal parts client partner and team protector. She manages the Tetris of meetings, tasks, timelines, and client communications that keep projects moving and knows that good project management isn’t about keeping everything perfectly on schedule. It’s about knowing when to be flexible and never losing sight of the bigger goal. For her team, that means creating room to breathe when the work calls for it. For clients, it means being honest when something isn’t realistic, and coming to the table with a Plan B instead. There’s almost always a solution, she’ll tell you. It just takes a little problem-solving to get there.
When she’s not wrangling projects, Bailey is probably finishing a book, relaxing on a sunny patio, or starting a new hobby. She’s attempted tin whistle, tattooing, sourdough, and roller skating — some stuck, some didn’t. Last year, she hiked four days to Machu Picchu. This year, she’s learning to be a practical psychic. She is also, for the record, the reigning Phase 10 champion and takes that very seriously.
