Powers-Freeling started her professional career at Price Waterhouse New York and Boston as a part-time management consultant while studying at the MIT Sloan School of Management, having worked for Clinique Laboratories Ltd (a division of Estee Lauder) and in administrative roles at Price Waterhouse before and during her undergraduate study.
Having retired from full-time executive roles, Powers-Freeling pursued a range of senior advisory positions, including a fourteen-month stint with the Bank of England's Special Resolution Unit developing the pilot approach to the Recovery and Resolution Plan regime.