What People Say About
Working With Theresa

Quotes and recognition from peers, leaders, and cross-functional partners at Atlassian. Sourced from formal Kudos awards, Slack messages, Loom comments, and Confluence feedback.


I. Formal Kudos Awards

Michelle Mortimer
Design Manager, C&L
July 2025
Big Kudos

I've been really impressed with the way you've leant in and got up to speed so quickly in a messy C&L space with lots of ambiguity. In a short time, you're already adding so much value and showing up as a design leader. You're even participating in wider x-functional conversations and thinking of ways we can improve things. Super keen to keep collaborating with you!

Kenya Husband
Sr. Manager, Community Strategy
February 2026
Big Kudos

Huge THANK YOU to Theresa for all the hard work and relentless focus to ensure the requested Forums experiments from the business were launched as expected and delivered outcomes that exceeded planned performance goals! Thank you for ensuring the experiments moved forward, pressure-testing each experiment's functionality to ensure it operates as intended, and for being a great partner on this initiative!

Christina Nelson
Program Manager, Adoption
February 2026
Kudos

Thank you for your incredible help with the Adoption Hub main page and navigation design! Your attention to detail and collaborative spirit were instrumental in getting us to the finish line of the original scope. I appreciate your dedication and for making such a positive impact on this project — we couldn't have done it without you!

Tiffany Scolnic
Technical Portfolio & Operations Lead, Community
September 2026
Big Kudos

Congrats and a massive thank you for all the work you did for the HLV migration. I know that it was a lot of work, and we truly couldn't have done it without you. Appreciate all the time and dedication you put into making this a success <3

Monique van den Berg
Sr. Manager, Community Forums
October 2026
Big Kudos

The HLV migration was a HERCULEAN effort, thank you for being a goddess among women (and all humans) by contributing your time, your expertise, and your brilliance to help make it a success! I appreciate your work so much!!!!

II. On the HLV Forums Migration

III. On Design Quality

IV. On Leadership & Collaboration

V. On Innovation & Prototyping

Lana Montgomery
Head of Community
March 2026 (DM)

It's incredible!! Thank you all so much for choosing this for your project and putting so much time and energy into it… where's the best place for me to give you all the kudos and call out how amazing this is?… Thanks so much Theresa!

VI. From Teammates & Mentees

VII. Team & Cross-Functional Recognition

Confluence Karma
Community blog post
November 2025

Wonderful write up @Theresa Garritano — You really captured the essence of the offsite. Excited for what the team will build and create.