Speaking & Work With Me
For organizations and people with a hard problem, and a room that needs a clear thinker in it.
My work crosses politics, law, technology, nonprofit strategy, land stewardship, writing, communications, and institution-building.
The common thread is entering a complicated system, finding the structure underneath the symptoms, and helping people act on what becomes visible.
That is the capability available to hire, beyond the writing.
Speaking
Keynotes, panels, fireside conversations, and workshops on democracy, power, systems thinking, institutional design, history, technology, and human flourishing — grounded in real experience building inside complicated systems rather than observing them only from a distance.
Facilitation
Working sessions for teams, boards, coalitions, and organizations trying to understand a hard structural problem well enough to act on it — not merely talk around it.
Strategic & Systems Advisory
Organizational design, civic and nonprofit strategy, technology and automation strategy, and systems-level problem solving.
The first question is often not "what solution should we implement?" but "what structure is producing the outcome we keep trying to fix?"
Invite Me to Speak
For speaking requests specifically, use the form below — it's the fastest route to a real answer.
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Everything Else
Facilitation, advisory, or anything that isn't a straightforward speaking request — tell me about the problem, not just the ask.
Speaking: [email protected]
Everything else: [email protected]