About Us

Kella Hatcher and Maryanne Perrin bring diverse and complementary skills and experience to their work at Balancing Professionals. Their inspiration for founding Balancing Professionals began with the growing number of talented people they were encountering who wanted to work part-time but couldn’t find part-time opportunities that utilized the valuable skills they’d honed. Realizing that there was an incredibly educated, experienced, and talented pool of professionals that employers were missing out on, Kella and Maryanne began researching topics surrounding part-time and job-share positions, finding overwhelming data to indicate tremendous benefits to employers who integrated more part-time and job share situations into their work teams. Armed with this data and their own positive experiences working as “part-time professionals,” they decided to start a business that would build a bridge between these talented professionals and the employers who couldn’t afford to overlook them.

Kella Hatcher has a law degree from the University of North Carolina and a B.A. from Purdue University. She has worked as legal counsel for a state government program and as an assistant district attorney.  She puts her research, process improvement, and advocacy skills to use educating others about sustainable approaches to work that benefit employees, employers, and the environment. Most of her legal career has been in part-time or job-share situations, so she has “lived” the issues related to part-time professional positions. Her own “flexible workplace” allows her to juggle kids and volunteer work.

Maryanne Perrin has an MBA from the University of North Carolina and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. She has led a variety of re-engineering, system implementation, and training projects during her career at IBM and KPMG Peat Marwick. Before starting Balancing Professionals, she served as the Director of Operations and Finance for a rapidly growing North Carolina technology company where she experienced first-hand the "win-win" of being an executive on a part-time schedule. Other “hats” that Maryanne wears in her attempts to balance work and life include mother-of-three, literacy mentor, and marathon runner.