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About Meredith

I spent 17 years becoming one version of myself. Then I had to decide what came next.

I’m Meredith Littman — founder, writer, and digital presence strategist. A layoff ended the career I had spent years building. What came after forced me to think much harder about identity, reputation, and what happens when the version of you people can find no longer matches the person you’ve become.

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Meredith LittmanFounder · Writer · Strategist
17
Years building a career
Career→Layoff→Reinvention
Not starting over. Starting from experience.
The first chapter

I learned how to make complicated things easier to understand.

I spent more than 17 years at CVS Health working across analytics, pharmacy benefit management, strategy, leadership, and executive decision support.

Most of my job came down to the same thing: take a lot of noise, figure out what mattered, and explain it clearly enough that someone could make a decision.

Along the way, I noticed something else. The people who moved forward were not always the most qualified. They were often the people whose value was easiest to see, understand, and repeat.

That observation stayed with me. I just didn’t realize yet that I was eventually going to need it for myself.
The interruption

Then the career ended before I was ready for it to.

The job ended quickly. Understanding what that ending meant took considerably longer.

I still had the experience, judgment, and track record. What disappeared was the easy explanation: title, company, team, career path. All the shorthand I had used to describe myself was suddenly gone.

So I had to answer a much less comfortable question: Who am I when the résumé stops doing the explaining?

That question is where the second half of my work began.

What changed

Then I searched my own name.

Reinvention isn’t only internal. Eventually, the outside world has to be able to recognize the person you’ve become.

What I knew

Years of experience. Judgment. A point of view.

I knew what I had done, what I was good at, and what I wanted to build next.

What the internet showed

A thinner, older version of the story.

The person I knew myself to be was not clearly reflected in what someone else could actually find.

Your reputation exists twice: in the people who know your work — and in what the internet can prove.
What came out of it

I didn’t build one thing. I built a few.

Business, books, and essays all came from different sides of the same question: how do people understand who we are, what we know, and what comes next?

01

My Polished Profile

I founded MPP to help accomplished professionals close the gap between who they are offline and what people find when they search their names.

Visit My Polished Profile ↗
02

The Ten-Second Verdict

About the judgments people make before the first conversation — and how professionals become easier to find, trust, and remember online.

About the book →
03

The Layoff Comeback

The messier book: job loss, identity, confidence, reinvention, and figuring out who you are when the old explanation stops working.

About the book →
How I think

Systems explain how decisions happen. Psychology helps explain why.

MBA

Strategy + systems

I pay attention to incentives, tradeoffs, process, and the mechanics behind how decisions actually get made.

BA Psychology

Motivation + perception

I’m equally interested in the part people don’t always say out loud: what they notice, what they trust, and what quietly changes their mind.

Meredith Littman, Scot Smith, and their Bernedoodle on a beach boardwalk
The less official version

Away from search results, strategy, and whatever I’m rebuilding this week.

I live in Greenville, South Carolina with my boyfriend, Scot, and our Bernedoodle, Jack. When I’m not working, I’m usually reading, watching a crime documentary, finding something that needs redesigning, or negotiating with Jack about whether the object currently in his mouth qualifies as food.

Greenville, SCScotJack · snack enforcementCrime documentariesAlways redesigning something
FAQ

The questions people usually ask.

Who is Meredith Littman?

Meredith Littman is the founder of My Polished Profile, a writer, and the author of the forthcoming books The Ten-Second Verdict and The Layoff Comeback. She lives and works in Greenville, South Carolina.

What is My Polished Profile?

My Polished Profile is a digital presence management firm that helps professionals make sure what people find online reflects the credibility and authority they have built offline.

What is The Ten-Second Verdict about?

It explores how professionals are found, evaluated, trusted, and remembered online before the first conversation ever happens.

What is The Layoff Comeback about?

It is about rebuilding identity, confidence, visibility, and direction after a career chapter ends unexpectedly.

Where to go next

Start with what brought you here.

Path one

Here for the work?

See how My Polished Profile helps professionals build a stronger, more credible presence around their name.

Visit My Polished Profile →Path two

Here for the writing?

Read essays about reinvention, layoffs, digital identity, trust, and what happens when life changes the story.

Read my writing →