I consider myself a dynamic professional leader, constantly redefining myself to meet new challenges and learn whatever is necessary to find the right solution. I empower special project teams to do their best work for a good cause. Usually, these teams are composed of people I have just met, some of whom may not have ever worked with each other or me.

These are the values/qualities/skills I have strived to develop over a life-long quest to live many lives, learn as much as I could along the way and make the world a little more ok:

— A knack for identifying problems/issues and visualizing all the components and how they fit together before building the solution.

— Lead by defining clear and attainable goals.

— Doing a lot on little resources by investing in people and appealing to the common values of all team members.

— An expectation that each team member is there not only to solve a problem but inspire their teammates to elevate the quality of their own work.

— Empathy does more good than shame in situations where teammates seem to act out of self-interest or anxiety, i.e. be human when humans show their humanity.

— Neither your teammates or yourself can be sure whose idea, strategy, design, product is best; so don’t waste your time arguing over it. Instead, consult the data, ask the user, constituent, customer or market.

— Where immediate judgment calls are necessary it is ok to fallback to core personal character strengths of intuition, pattern recognition, creativity and fairness where knowledge or experience falls short.

— Dynamic (but humble) leadership - an understanding that innovation starts with redefining one’s self as needed to adapt to changing needs of a team. Evolve to contribute how and where necessary.

— Ride a bike when and how you can, you’ll be a lot happier.

Over the past decade, I would like to think I have used these qualities to help various public, non-profit and academic institutions right-size solutions to fit their needs, goals, budgets and leverage their core competencies.