It’s time to do something different.
High-altitude strategy meets intentional life design.
I’m a strategic advisor, lawyer, and author advising leading organizations on business strategy, while helping individuals drop the rigid scripts, quiet the internal judgment, and live with intention and confidence. My book You’re Where the Party Is is coming this December!
Where would you like to begin?
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Strategic Advisory
Corporate & Brand Strategy | High Stakes Negotiations | Reputation Management
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The Workshop
Reinvention | Personal Agency | Career Strategy | Trying New Things
Modern Ambition and Finding Your Own Rhythm
The beat is an expectation of the pace and intensity at which you’ll move. The day transitions into a series of regularly scheduled tasks from morning school bells to “lights out.” Each of these moments in life represents a beat, interconnected through a string of time, flowing at a pace and intensity that you probably didn’t choose. A rhythm has been thrust upon you.
When Your Values Collide
I relished being a business-minded, analytical, problem-solving professional, but I also longed to be a successful creative artist. It felt as if each side was preventing me from moving full speed ahead in those respective directions. Forging ahead with one side didn’t feel right when it would cause me to abandon the other. What was my career without the balancing effect of music and creativity?
What If Starting A Hobby Is The Cure?
Creativity is not separate from leadership, strategy, or meaningful work. It’s a part of how people process experience, build connection, and imagine new possibilities. Dr. Daisy Fancourt reached out to me two years ago after reading my blog about my journey from law to music and wanted to interview me for her ground-breaking book. “Art Cure.”
A Conversation That Changed My Life Forever
Prayer, hope, despair, more prayer. It all seemed deficient. As am optimist, I am always finds a way to stay hopeful. Hope, denial, optimism: perhaps they’re one in the same in times like these. This conversation was the one thing that broke through.
Life Should Be Like A Fresh Fruit Salad
The good life is like a fresh fruit salad. No one piece has to stand out because the entire bowl is customized just for you. You know what you like, you do the shopping, and you make the selection. Throw out the canned life and start chopping.
You Can’t Drink From An Empty Cup
The farmer who wants to produce a high quality harvest must execute a strategy to produce a quality bean. There are routine steps that all farmers must take, but if she can tend to the trees under just the right conditions, the cherries will ripen right on time.
When A Bull Enters A China Shop
A bull entered the china shop, and things began to break. Delicate porcelain plates perched high against the walls. Dainty teacups rested in blue, velvet boxes. Everything had been carefully selected and arranged. But customers had stopped buying, and the shop had lost its way. So, the owners made a call that changed everything.
The Recognition Gap
Criticism can make you feel like you're failing when you might be flourishing. Criticism is one person's point of view. Keep searching for the truth.
I’m Looking For Signs Of Life
I'm looking for signs of life in people and places that have stopped believing much can change. Sometimes those signs are buried beneath disappointment, fear, criticism, uncertainty, regret, or a lack of direction. Sometimes people mistake those experiences for the end of the story. Here’s the new beginning.
What Are You Striving For?
You know what fascinates me? The idea that a life isn't a fixed thing we're handed or a ladder we're supposed to climb even though sometimes it feels like it is. Life is open. Perspective determines how much of that openness we can see.
You’ve Come A Long Way
Even if you’re not where you hoped to be, and the people around you may not even acknowledge who you can be, the person you are now in this moment is absolutely worthy of recognition, attention and even celebration.
I’ve Always Wanted A House With A Porch
“I feel sorry for houses without porches. If houses with porches are the huggers of architecture, the non-porched are those houses that offer a stiff handshake at first meeting.” — Erin Napier, designer and television host of HGTV Hometown
Not Everything Has to Work Out
You may find yourself sprinting to the door. Or wishing for more time. But people suffer more than necessary when they expect everything to work out. They expect the extra effort to be rewarded. The loyalty to be reciprocated. The sacrifice to make sense. And when it doesn't, they wonder if it was all for nothing.
What I Learned From Making Coffee
The attention to the craft gives meaning to what otherwise is a commodity. Just like any service or product, you can deliver what you offer like a commodity or a craft. This becomes the heart of your brand.
Seeking A Net Positive Life
“Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don’t have enough of it, you’re out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you’re really missing something.”
- Peter Drucker
Why Achievement Isn’t Enough
Promotions, titles, salaries, milestones, they often shine brightest while we're pursuing them. Once we've arrived, it's only a matter of time before we're looking toward the next horizon. So what sustains us when the applause is over? When life still feels incomplete?
Action Creates Clarity
Contemplation can feel heavy, ranging from inspiring to depleting, but it's actually light on action. It's easy to get stuck there, where no actual progress lives.
Continuous contemplation is waiting for the perfect moment when there is no perfect moment. Instead, we must weigh our options, decide upon a risk we're willing to take, a sacrifice we’re willing to make, and begin with what we have, where we are.
Even when things haven’t gone as planned, a better day is coming.
