# Dr. Monica

Founder & CEO, Systematic You / Former COO, Forte Labs

Canonical: https://mornings.network/shows/center-stage/guests/dr-monica

## Biography

Dr. Monica Rysavy operates at the precise intersection where systems, strategy, and support converge — and the complexity of what she has accomplished across her career makes even her feel tired when someone recites it all at once. She holds two earned doctorates (a Ph.D. in Learning Design and an Ed.D.), is a current law student at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law focusing on intellectual property, has authored 25+ peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and built one of the most operationally sophisticated teams in the digital education space. She is the kind of person who completes degrees while running companies. And then starts another one.

For nearly four years, Dr. Monica served as Chief Operating Officer, General Manager, and Controller at Forte Labs — the company behind Building a Second Brain, one of the most recognized personal productivity brands in the world and a 7-figure digital education startup. In that role, she reduced company spending by $30,000 in two weeks during a cashflow pivot, decreased tax liability by 85% through compliance strategy redesign, and managed cross-functional operations across product delivery, contract management, and multi-product launches. She was the operational intelligence behind a brand that reached millions of people with the message that systems can change how you think and work.

When she left Forte Labs in 2024 to go full-time at Systematic You — the company she founded in December 2023 — it was not a departure from that mission. It was an expansion of it. Through Systematic You, Dr. Monica designs backend operational infrastructure for service-based founders and growing teams: custom AI tools and automations, Notion and Airtable content and client delivery hubs, systems audits, and the ongoing consulting work that transforms what she describes as 'brilliant and buried' entrepreneurs into people who can finally breathe again. Her clients include consultants, psychologists, creatives, agencies, coaches, and creators — many of them neurodivergent or multi-passionate — all united by a brain that never stops and a business that hasn't yet been organized to match it.

Before Forte Labs, Dr. Monica spent 13 years at Goldey-Beacom College in Wilmington, Delaware as a director of institutional research and training and assistant professor, where she taught computer science and educational technology while authoring peer-reviewed work on information literacy, instructional design, and knowledge management. She also facilitated professional development courses for K-12 educators across Delaware and held graduate assistant and special project roles at Penn State University. Her career trajectory — from high school IT department chair to higher education director to startup COO to founder — is a masterclass in applied systems thinking across every environment she has entered.

Dr. Monica appeared on the Center Stage segment of Mornings in the Lab to share her approach to transforming business chaos into scalable, organized systems — and to make the case that the right systems don't just make you more efficient. They give you back your ability to think.

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## Transcript

hey we are back with Marty we're back with Johnny and we are back with Dr Monica rasabi Dr Monica good morning and welcome to morning's in the lab and I'm going to do this justo so we had you here for the crater Spotlight yesterday we gave you some of this and we're going to do it again Dr rashab morning thanks for having me absolutely so listen let's get into let's get into knowing who Dr Ravi is so do is a master of scaling systems she is an expert Johnny in custom system design and I was excited John when I knew she was coming on the show today I know systems turned your life around so she helps entrepreneurs streamline her operations and grow profitably she's the former so of Fort Labs Marty she led operations at the productivity power host behind building a second brain oh yeah we all need second brains cutting costs and optimizing efficiency she's the founder of systematic you through her company she transforms business chaos into scalable well organized systems if you're an entrepreneur right now if you're a human looking for systems this is the show you want to hang out with and Hey listen she has dual doctorates she has them been sitting around boys and she's a law student with two doctorates and currently pursuing a law degree oh yeah Monica just sits around does nothing she Blends academic Insight with practical experience to drive results and here today we are excited to bring in Dr Monica Ravi into lab here Monica thanks for hanging out with us today what's going on I'm excited to chat with you I admit when you were reciting all of my background it makes me exhausted and normally I don't feel that way so thank you somebody has to put the Good Deeds on the show