Pink Tools
& Pearls
Rebecca Hawkins, PE · Engineer · Founder · Pageant Titleholder
“Tough enough for the plant.
Sharp enough for the boardroom.”
Pink Tools & Pearls is the brand, the blog, and the ecosystem built by Rebecca Hawkins, PE — Chemical Engineer, 25-year life sciences veteran, neurodivergent household architect, triplet mom, and founder of PT&P Solutions. The blog. The podcast. The consulting firm. One brain. Three doors. Colleagues call her the Pink Swiss Army Knife. She wears that name intentionally.
“While my colleagues may listen to me in a hard hat,Rebecca Hawkins, PE · Pageant Titleholder
everyone pays attention to a sparkly hat.”
The ecosystem.
Three doors.
Pink Tools & Pearls is the blog and the master brand. The Athena Factor is the podcast. PT&P Solutions is the consulting firm. All three feed each other. Choose your door.
Pink Tools
& Pearls
The lifestyle blueprint. Systems, frameworks, and field notes for ambitious women running complex lives who refuse to simplify themselves. Witty. Practical. Big-sister energy.
The Nora Ephron half leads here. The free Chaos Stack workbook is waiting for you.
The Athena
Factor
The professional operating system. Career infrastructure for mid-career women in STEM who were never handed the manual. Authoritative. Technical. Peer-level.
The Sheldon Cooper half leads here. Athena was born fully formed and fully armored. She didn’t ask permission.
PT&P Solutions,
LLC
Principal-level validation, CQV, CSV, FDA 483 remediation, and fractional engineering leadership for pharma, biologics, and medical device organizations.
WOSB certified. PE licensed. No margin for error — and 25 years of proof.
The Chaos Stack
Six systems for running a fully loaded life without losing your mind. Built by an engineer with ADHD, three neurodivergent triplets, and a non-negotiable conviction that chaos is just a system waiting to be documented.
Stack
Without Losing Your Mind
The 2.25%
Problem.
Rebecca doesn’t advocate for women in engineering because it sounds good in an interview. She advocates because she has run the numbers.
In 2021, women earned 18% of undergraduate engineering degrees. Of those graduates, half never entered the industry. Of those who did, half left within ten years. Half of the remaining left in the following decade.
At the twenty-year mid-career mark, only 2.25% remain. Less than 5% of senior and director-level engineers are women. So much knowledge, expertise, and innovation — lost to attrition.
This is not abstract advocacy. This is a pipeline problem she has watched from inside the pipeline for twenty-five years. She built her entire ecosystem around changing that number.
One speaker.
Every crowd.
Whether you are looking for the intersection of technical details and Quality communications, or the integration of work, life, and everything else, Rebecca Hawkins can speak to your crowd — clarifying the abstract and uniquely delivering complex concepts with the smirk of lived experience.
Head over to the Speaking page to learn about her areas of expertise.
One brand.
Three
expressions.
Engineered for precision. Built for versatility. Consistently underestimated by anyone who leads with the color.
Read at 2.5. Programmed at 4. PE licensed at 32. Still building.
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