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
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.
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. But they're not.
What Art Cure Reveals About Creativity, Leadership, and Human Experience
For years, I’ve believed that creativity is not separate from leadership, strategy, innovation, or meaningful work. It is part of how people process experience, expand perception, build connection, and imagine new possibilities.
Finding Your Own Rhythm
As we grow older, we can become more conscious of how the rhythm of our life makes us feel as the beats are being stitched together. The rhythm is how we feel when we’ve rushed through a full morning of meetings, glance at the clock and notice that we won’t have no time to stop for lunch or make a personal call. It’s that feeling around 7pm that we’re running out of time before today ends and another day begins.
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 - my lawyer side and my artsy side - was preventing me from moving full speed ahead in either of 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?
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.
When Life Is Like A Fresh Fruit Salad
Someone, somewhere right now, is prying open a watery can of fruit cocktail and about to take a bite. In between the toddler-sized chunks of pear cores, triangular bits of peaches, and olive colored, halved grapes, that sad someone is surveying the can for a single crushed piece of scarlet, red cherry.
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