Better perspective leads to better decisions.
For over 15 years, I've helped founders, CEOs, and executive teams navigate complex, cross-functional decisions spanning strategy, commercial negotiations, legal risk, brand reputation, people, and transformation.
Today, I help leaders make better decisions and write about ideas, and the signs of life, that shape meaningful businesses, careers, and lives.
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Writer · Speaker · Strategic Advisor
I’m Look for Signs of Life.
In businesses. In leaders. In careers.
I advise founders, CEOs, and executive teams on commercial strategy, business development, partnerships and high-stakes negotiations, helping them see opportunities, navigate complexity, and make better decisions.
What makes my perspective different is that I've advised executive teams through cross-functional challenges involving strategy, legal, marketing, corporate responsibility, reputation, operations, and transformation for nearly two decades. Seeing business through multiple lenses helps me uncover possibilities that others overlook.
Better perspective leads to better decisions.
I advise founders and executive teams on growth, meaningful brand identity, commercial strategy, and high-stakes business decisions.
Develop stronger leadership and teams where people and performance thrive together.
Create more meaningful customer and employee experiences that strengthen trust, loyalty, and long-term value.
Provide one-on-one thought partnership for founders and senior leaders navigating growth, difficult decisions, leadership challenges, and organizational change.
Keynotes, fireside chats, executive retreats, panels & moderation.
How I Help Founders & Executive Teams:
How I Help Professionals:
I help professionals navigate career transitions with confidence and perspective.
Redefine success without sacrificing ambition.
Build a more meaningful life and career.
Discover practical ideas for living well through essays and video.
The Journal
My Chat with Rice University’s Graduate School of Business
Our conversation came full circle to a short history of my life focused on law, to one eventually balanced with music and business. I shared the story of my mom’s illness and how one simple sentence became my inspiration. Click the photo to hear our conversation.
The Conversation That Changed My Life
After my mom was diagnosed with brain cancer, I flew to visit her at least monthly. I was General Counsel of the DC Sports and Entertainment Commission during that time, so having a flexible leave policy and the ability to work remotely from Houston was the only way I made it through.
How to Make Sure Your Cup Is Full
The farmer who wants to produce a high quality harvest to sell to the market at premium prices must execute a strategy that fuels her intention to produce a quality bean. She must exercise patience, and craft, to allow the tree to time produce. It can take 3 to 4 years of cultivating a coffee tree before it ever produces fruit. 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.
Is Ethical Sourcing A Winning Strategy? Case study: Tony’s Chocolonely
As a chocolate brand, Tony’s could elect to ignore human rights, but it instead it chooses a supply chain strategy that includes 100% ethical sourcing of cocoa. Its customers have been willing to pay a premium because the brand pairs high-quality product with an activist mission. Customers essentially get to become part of a global movement.
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