Writing, Speaking, & Thought Leadership
A body of work exploring presence, identity, and sustainable leadership.
When presence leads, words land differently.
The Thinking Behind My Work
I’ve always been interested in the questions underneath the obvious ones.
What happens when the life we’ve built no longer quite fits? How do we navigate change without losing ourselves in the process? How do we know what matters when the answers that once served us no longer seem sufficient? And what helps us make choices that are genuinely our own?
These questions have followed me through four decades of leadership and finance, through writing and photography, and now through my work as a coach. They’ve also become the foundation of a growing body of work about living well, navigating change, and developing the inner capacity to meet life thoughtfully.
The Messy Middle
The space between what was and what comes next. I think of transition not as a problem to solve, but as a crossing. The messy middle is where identities shift, assumptions are challenged, and the next version of life has not yet taken shape.
The Inner Edge™
The inner capacities that help us meet change. The Inner Edge explores the awareness, self-trust, reflection, and intentionality that allow us to respond to life rather than simply react to it.
Authentic Agency
The ability to make choices that are genuinely our own. Authentic Agency is about moving from awareness into choice, developing the clarity and courage to act in ways that reflect what matters rather than what is expected, habitual, or simply easiest.
Beyond Balance™
The larger philosophy that brings it all together. Beyond Balance is my exploration of what it means to live well without trying to create a perfectly balanced life. It is about learning to pay attention, cultivate what matters, make intentional choices, and meet the inevitable complexity of being human with greater wisdom and flexibility.
These ideas are not intended to be formulas for living. They are ways of thinking, questions worth asking, and practices that continue to evolve through writing, coaching, conversation, and lived experience. Together, they form the foundation of my work.
What I Write & Speak About
My work explores what it means to live and lead thoughtfully, particularly during times when life is asking us to change. I write and speak about:
Living well and human flourishing
Identity, transition, and reinvention
Authentic agency and intentional choice
Leadership and the inner life of leaders
Wellbeing and sustainable ways of living
Change, resilience, and meaning
The psychology of how we make choices
What it means to create a meaningful second act
At the center of all of it is a question I keep returning to: How do we learn to live in a way that feels more truly our own?
Writing
Writing is where I slow down enough to think. It gives me a place to follow an idea, sit with a question, notice a pattern, and sometimes discover that what I thought I believed is not quite what I believe after all.
As an Executive Contributor for BRAINZ Magazine, I write about leadership, wellbeing, transition, human behavior, resilience, and the questions that become more interesting as we move through the different seasons of life. My writing brings together what I have learned through leadership, coaching, observation, and lived experience, with a particular interest in the space between what happens to us and what we choose to do with it.
Future books are already taking shape.
Podcasts, Interviews & Conversations
Some of the best thinking happens in conversation. I’m drawn to conversations that leave room for curiosity rather than certainty, where we can slow down long enough to explore what is really happening beneath the obvious story. I’m particularly interested in conversations about:
The messy middle of transition
Reinvention and second acts
Leadership and the person behind the role
Wellbeing and what it means to live well
Identity, agency, and intentional choice
The questions that emerge when the old answers stop working
I’m less interested in having the right answer than in asking a question worth staying with. If you’re hosting a thoughtful interview, salon, roundtable, or podcast and value depth over noise, I’d be glad to explore the conversation.
Speaking
I don’t see speaking as standing in front of a room and delivering a collection of answers.
I’m more interested in creating a conversation that gives people something to think about after they leave. My talks draw from the same questions that shape my writing and coaching, combining stories, observations, and practical ideas with frameworks people can actually use.
Topics I Speak About
The Messy Middle: Finding your way through transition
The Inner Edge: Developing the capacity to meet change
Authentic Agency: Moving from awareness to intentional choice
Beyond Balance: Rethinking what it means to live well
Leadership Beyond the Role: The inner work of leading well
The Art of the Second Act: Reinvention, possibility, and purposeful living
Living Well: Human flourishing in a complicated world
Whether the setting is a keynote, conversation, workshop, or intimate gathering, my goal is the same: to create space for people to think more clearly about their lives, their choices, and what comes next.