Futurist · Strategist · Business Architect
See. Align. Build.
I help leaders see what's coming, align people and systems around what matters, and build what comes next.
I help leaders see what's coming, align people and systems around what matters, and build what comes next.
Most organizations don't have an answer problem. They have a question problem.
I've spent more than twenty years inside financial services, government, economic development, consulting, publishing, and the military. The titles said communications, marketing, public affairs. The work was always broader: connecting executives and operators, strategy and execution, technology and people, today's requirements and tomorrow's consequences.
Today my focus is enterprise strategy, business architecture, and strategic operations: the work that lives between functions. Along the way I founded and edited an award-winning community magazine, ran public affairs for a growing Texas city, built two consulting practices, and served the South Carolina State Guard in command, public affairs, and intelligence roles.
I'm a Certified Futurist, with executive education in breakthrough innovation strategy through X, The Moonshot Factory. Futurism, done right, is not prediction. It's recognizing what's emerging before it becomes obvious.
Produced for AgFirst Farm Credit Bank as an AI proof of concept: where marketing and communications is headed.
Produced for AgFirst Farm Credit Bank as an AI proof of concept: where marketing and communications is headed.
Cross-functional work across executives, technology teams, and district associations at a $52B lender: Salesforce, nCino, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, data and analytics, AI adoption and governance. Communications was often the mechanism. The actual work was alignment.
Marketing and communications for a global tire brand's Americas organization, including video production for national campaigns.
The history of South Carolina and its Military Department in one-minute video bites, written, narrated, and produced for the SC State Guard.
Public affairs for one of Texas's fastest-growing cities, plus an interactive Quick Response trail linking signage to advertisers, local business, history, and city government.
Founder and editor of a community magazine that earned state recognition for its covers and reporting. The full archive of past issues lives at issuu.com/schertz.
Strategic planning, scenario work, and the Certified Futurist discipline: seeing what's emerging before it becomes obvious, and deciding what to do about it.
Mapping how the organization actually works - capabilities, systems, incentives - so change lands where it's supposed to.
Chief-of-staff work: program management, change management, executive communication, and keeping the important things moving.
I take on a small number of advisory and fractional engagements alongside my search for the right Chief of Staff or enterprise strategy role. Get in touch.
Building The Interrobang: a weekly essay on foresight, strategy, organizations, and the changing nature of work, plus FOOTNOTE, an illustrated fable about work set inside the Standard Provision Company, a hot dog company founded the year of the crash. Audio and radio theatre are in the works. Read it at theinterrobang.net.
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