I’ve been advising clients on leadership, culture, teaming, and strategy for over 15 years. My practice is focused on two questions: How do you see the future? and What needs to change to meet that future’s challenges? These questions guide my work with clients.

The bulk of my career has been spent consulting and coaching for range of organizations. Among them are Amgen, NIKE, Coca-Cola, Vanguard, Wyndham, Snap, Macquarie, Illumination, Red Bull, Medifast, Key Bank, Hershey’s, Western Digital, SABIC, Synopsys, and Signify.

I have a PhD in Leadership studies and a MA in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University. My academic work sits at the intersection of critical leadership studies, complex systems, regenerative design, and post-structuralist philosophy. My dissertation focused on how executives understand their leadership identities through complex leadership transitions.

My advisory work draws on my experience working with some of the largest and most complex organizations in the world, helping them address some of their stickiest problems, combined with a rigorous approach to cultivating deep relationships in support of transformational, regenerative systems change.

I am influenced by a nuanced understanding of how relationships work, and this begins with the idea that ‘relata do not precede relations’ [1]. This is only the beginning. To tell the story of how I view the social complexity of organizations is a much longer conversation.

My style can be described as both rigorous and fun. I tell every client that the work will not always be easy, but if we aren’t having fun, we’re doing it wrong. We will definitely laugh along the way, we’ll certainly learn, and always be keenly focused on what needs to change to meet the demands of our circumstances.

Some of my earliest memories are of reading. Today, reading is still how I spend an outsize amount of my time and influences all of my work. To help make sense the discontinuity of our world, I’m currently engaged in reading across a few broad areas: post-structuralism, the new materialism, regenerative design, the American West, critical leadership and organization studies, as well as a wide range of fiction.

Ultimately, my work is intensely focused on outcomes. If we begin our work exploring what the future might look like and what needs to change in response, then we can focus on bringing about that change. Whether at a personal, team, or organizational level, a focus on outcomes serves as a guide for what has to be different for us to succeed.

Portland, Oregon, USA is my home.