About Me
For more than 30 years, I’ve helped leaders navigate complexity, build trust, and deliver impact. I’ve advised corporations, start-ups, NGOs, and global institutions—bringing strategic clarity, cultural fluency, and narrative depth to the moments that matter most. I’ve also worked with 500+ senior figures, from Fortune 100 CEOs to Nobel laureates and government leaders to frontline changemakers—helping them align vision and voice, and prepare for high-stakes stages, boardrooms, and global audiences.
What I Do
Where Strategy Meets Story
I work with leaders, organizations, and communities to bridge the gap between vision and influence. Whether you're launching something new, recalibrating your story, or navigating transformation, I help your messages land with clarity, confidence, and cultural fluency. Assignments can range from hourly to project-based to retainer and fractional, or even as a sounding board on Clarity.fm. Services include:Strategic Communications
• Lived Narrative Intelligence
• Messaging & Narrative Development
• Public Relations Strategy & Activation
• Brand & Reputation Management
• Thought Leadership & Executive Positioning
• Writing, Ghostwriting & Content Strategy
• Media & Public Speaking CoachingESG, CSR & Social Impact
• Program Design & Execution
• Partnership Development
• Community & Public Affairs StrategyLeadership Advisory & Coaching
• Adaptive Leadership Coaching
• Cross-cultural Insights & Trust-building Strategy
What Sets Me Apart
Not Just a Résumé. A Road.
What sets my work apart is the integration of lived narrative intelligence, insight drawn not just from decades of global advisory experience, but from immersive, place-based work in communities across the U.S. and abroad. Since 2022, I’ve lived and worked full-time in more than 30 cities across three continents—from red states to blue, borderlands to barrios in Central and South America, to cities and villages in Europe.This wasn’t a sabbatical. It was a slow, intentional immersion into the stories, tensions, and cultural undercurrents most decision-makers only read about.Three truths I’ve learned:
• Messaging without meaning fails.
• Strategy without lived insight misfires.
• And trust isn’t built by volume, it’s built by relevance.
Lived Narrative Intelligence
Real Stories. Real Relevance.
That’s why I bring lived narrative intelligence to every engagement—to help leaders see more clearly, connect more deeply, and lead more meaningfully.What I’ve found is this:
• Culture isn’t diagnosed in a conference room.
• Polls offer signals, but lived experience is strategic data.
• And narrative work must reflect the realities of people’s lives, or it will miss them entirely.If your messaging isn’t landing or your strategy isn’t building trust, the problem may not be your words. It may be your vantage point.
Places Teach Us Things
Strategy doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and culture doesn’t live in a deck. And if your audience isn’t listening, it might be because they’ve never been seen. For the past three years, I’ve lived and worked in places most strategies overlook. Not as a tourist. As a neighbor. A witness. From red states to blue, barrios to borderlands, global capitals to post-industrial towns, I’ve listened, observed, and lived where the gaps in trust, relevance, and connection are most visible, and most urgent. Each place reshaped how I think about narrative, leadership, and what it means to matter to the people you’re trying to reach.Austin • Antwerp • Boise • Bogota • Boston • Brussels • Cartagena • Charleston • Chicago
Colorado Springs • Dayton • Des Moines • El Paso • Memphis • Miami • Milwaukee • Omaha • Paris Portland • Rapid City • Richmond • San Jose • San Francisco • Tulsa • Washington, D.C., and more
Places I've Worked
Leadership Roles
• Advisory Board, Climate Refugees
• Executive Vice President, Corporate, Edelman
• Executive Vice President and Group Head, CSR, Edelman
• Managing Director, Ocean Elders
• Director, Honeywell Hometown Solutions, Honeywell
• Executive Director, Honeywell Humanitarian Relief Fund, Honeywell
• Director, Brand Strategy, McCann Erickson
• Senior Government Affairs Officer, American Chamber of Commerce (UK)
Clients I've Worked With
Past Projects
All Rise • AMD • Bank of NY • Bloomberg Philanthropies • Bombardier
charity: water • Chesapeake Energy • Chevron • Citi • Conservation International • Eire Insurance • ExxonMobil • GE • ITT • J&J • King Hussein Foundation • Libra Philanthropies • Mastercard • Pepsico • Pfizer
Saint Joseph's University • Scotts • TED • Telemundo • The Earth Institute - Columbia University • The Parker Foundation • The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy • The Robin Hood Foundation • UN Global Compact • UN Ocean Decade • Western Union • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
My Writing on Substack
Magna Egestas
Life, Uncontained
Stories from the road, and the deeper terrain beneath it.Life, Uncontained is where I explore identity, disconnection, culture, and rediscovery through essays and fieldnotes shaped by living and working across more than 30 cities on three continents.This isn’t travel writing. It’s strategic storytelling with soul, drawn from barrios and borderlands, city halls and family shelters, conversations with Uber drivers and civic leaders alike. These are reflections that challenge surface narratives and invite us to rethink what proximity, perspective, and belonging really mean in a fractured world.I write for those who care about culture and context. For leaders rethinking how they communicate meaningfully. For anyone wrestling with what it means to feel at home—in your work, your story, or yourself.If you’re navigating disruption or simply drawn to stories that connect the personal and political, the global and local, I hope you’ll take a look. You can find me at Life, Uncontained
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