We’re a mother-daughter team who builds practical approaches, reworked from engineering and project management, for everyday life.
Kathleen Culver
I spent 35+ years in high tech as a software engineer, working to make viable products out of abstract innovations. This taught me how to translate complex things into something understandable and usable. I also led complex, high-stakes projects and earned formal project management certifications along the way.
Now I teach, speak, and write about practical ways to make progress under pressure, using simplified methods drawn from engineering and project management.
For more details about see the Kathleen Culver page.
Kelly Lozo
Kelly is a program lead at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, where she runs grants and initiatives with real stakeholders, real deadlines, and real consequences. She also has years of nonprofit experience and regularly applies these methods in community and creative settings, including behind-the-scenes work for local theater productions.
Kelly brings the “this has to work in the real world” filter. If something is too heavy, too precious, or too hard to adopt, it doesn’t make the cut.
PMEZ Story
From our work, Kelly and I have seen that many approaches used by engineers and project leads also work in normal life. But they have to be simplified for busy people who have no interest in jargon, spreadsheets, or a complex process. PMEZ does exactly that. We make these approaches usable for real people, and we share them through free guides, workshops and talks because we hate seeing good efforts fail when a little structure would have helped.
We’ve also noticed that a lot of advice about pressure these days focuses on coping. That can help briefly, but it doesn’t change what’s creating the pressure. In engineering and project work, when a problem shows up you don’t stop at breathing exercises. You make it visible, decide what matters, make tradeoffs explicit, and take actions that change the situation. PMEZ brings this way of thinking so regular people can act, not just cope.
That’s what drives us: getting the word out that there are simple, effective ways—built from proven practices—to make progress under pressure and achieve important goals.