SpacesYou know something needs to move forward. Maybe you’re not sure where to start. Maybe you know exactly where you’re headed and need an experienced hand to get there.
You’re in the right place.
Through consulting, project leadership, and thoughtful use of technology, I help people and businesses see what needs to happen and make it happen.
Some people need to see the big picture. Some need every detail accounted for. Most projects need both.
InFocus is project management software that gives the dreamer and the planner a place to work together. See how the pieces connect, what needs attention, and where your part belongs.
Built for the work you do AND the life you’re organizing.
Explore InFocusYou’ve heard what AI can do. What’s less clear is what it could actually do for you.
&ai starts with your work, your strengths, and the things taking more time and energy than they should. From there, we build practical AI support around how you think and work.
Services starting at $1,499.
Explore &aiYou don’t have to be the one holding all the pieces together.
You may have a team full of capable people and still be the person everyone turns to when something needs connecting, deciding, or moving forward. You need someone who can get their head around the whole situation and help put responsibility where it belongs.
I can step in, understand the work and the people inside it, and move it forward. That might mean leading a complicated project, filling a gap in leadership, reworking a process, or building the tool your team has been missing.
Sometimes, all you need is a fresh perspective.
That’s okay. Helping you figure that out is my specialty.
You don’t need a finished brief to start a conversation. “Something isn’t working, and I can’t quite put my finger on it” is enough.
Often, it comes back to one of three foundations:
A project. What it actually is, where it’s going, what’s getting in the way, and what it will take to move it forward. You may have an idea that needs shape or work already underway that needs direction.
A role. What someone is being asked to carry, what they need to succeed, and where expectations don’t line up. A new leader finding their footing. A role that’s changed while the job description hasn’t. A team that needs clearer expectations, coaching, or accountability.
The company. How the direction, people, and day-to-day work fit together. Maybe the duct tape isn’t holding anymore. Maybe what got you here can’t support what you want to build next.
We can talk it through, or you can write it all out. A clearer understanding may be all you need to take it from there. If there’s more work to do, we can figure that out together.
Start with what you know. We’ll go from there.
Forty years of staying at the cutting edge deserves a presence that keeps pace.
For an established company, continued innovation was already part of the work. Making sure its website and marketing reflected that took an ongoing relationship, working one-on-one alongside the marketing team as the business evolved.
After years of working together, a transition in leadership brought a new opportunity: carry that history forward while making room for what came next.
The conversation started with making the website ready for AI. It opened into something more foundational. How could the company’s experience, capabilities, and direction come through clearly, both to its customers and to the people shaping its future?
I helped the team bring those pieces together, clarify the company’s voice and priorities, and build a shared reference for its people and AI tools.
Today, the website, marketing, and internal teams have a clearer foundation to work from. The company can communicate where it’s going with the same confidence it brings to the work itself.
They had a product worth sharing and a reason for building the business that deserved to be heard.
For this coffee company, the founders’ story, their values, and their commitment to giving back were already part of how they worked. The opportunity was to help customers see what made it all matter.
What started as a conversation about marketing took me to New York, into the roasting plant, and along on deliveries. Spending time with the founders made it possible to understand the business from the inside and see what could bring the brand together.
I helped translate that understanding into a brand direction, a website, and marketing that connected the coffee, the people behind it, and the good they wanted the business to do. Giving back became a visible part of the customer’s relationship with the company.
The company has gone on to sell nationally, with its giving program reaching communities across the country. Repeat purchases and profits grew as more customers found more and more reasons to come back.
A business built with purpose had more ways to share it, and more room to grow.
One had homes people wanted. The other had relationships built on years of trust.
A tiny-home manufacturer had a strong product and an opportunity to reach more buyers. A real estate group exploring new directions had deep community connections and experience helping people find the right place to call home.
Together, they had the makings of a new business. Turning that potential into something customers could actually use meant working through the details.
I helped build the website, a marketing plan the team could put into action, and the systems behind it all: a place to explore the homes, a way to manage inquiries, clear handoffs for the sales team, deposit portals, and email follow-up that kept buyers informed.
That gave the businesses a shared way to put their strengths to work, with a path from someone’s first interest to taking the next step toward a home.
The partnership grew into a company of its own, with its own employees, its own direction, and a foundation to keep building on.
The CEO needed the big picture. The creatives needed room to create. The project manager needed to know how all of it was going to happen.
An event brought them all together, along with vendors, stakeholders, deadlines, and plenty of moving pieces. Everyone had a part to play. Everyone needed something different to do it well.
The challenge was keeping those perspectives connected as the work moved. A decision in one part of the project could change what someone else needed to do. A detail that barely registered for one person could hold up another person’s entire week.
Working inside that complexity, we needed a clear way for everyone to see how the pieces fit together and focus on the part that needed them. I started building a way for the CEO to step back, the project manager to get into the details, and the creatives to see what they needed without digging through everyone else’s work.
What started with one event became something I kept using in my own work and with other clients. That experience grew into InFocus, built around a need that kept showing up: people working toward the same outcome need different ways to see it.
Today, that same idea helps people bring the whole project into view and their own part into focus.
Having five kids has taught me that sometimes, you don’t need a solution.
Sometimes things, and people, need space to exist before you can see them clearly.
Space to hear yourself think. To say the thing you haven’t quite found words for. To see a perspective you couldn’t see from where you were standing.
Sometimes that changes what you do next. Sometimes it changes how you understand what’s already there.
Your own work. More than one perspective.
In technology, an API connects two different things. Here, Action, Patience, and Intention give us a way to explore the connection between where we are and where we want to be in a structured environment designed to help you shift your perspective.
You bring your life and what you’re working through. Other people bring theirs. You don’t need to be facing the same situation to help each other see something new.
Someone else may put words to something you’ve been feeling. A question about their experience might change how you understand your own. You get to hear other perspectives and discover what yours offers someone else.
That’s why API is intentionally group work. Working alongside each other is part of the work itself.
Groups are free. A new group is starting soon.
You’ve been turning something over in your head. Maybe you need another perspective, a little accountability, or someone who can help you get the whole thing out where you can see it.
A conversation can help you understand what’s been pulling at you, see a choice more clearly, or figure out what you want to do next.
The conversation is free. And it’s an actual conversation.
It’s not a sales call or a setup for an expensive masterclass. Sometimes we keep working together one-on-one. Sometimes that conversation gives you what you need.
You don’t need to know what to call it. We can start with what’s on your mind.
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A room can be full of people who think they’re the only one.
The only one figuring it out as they go. The only one who’s tired of pretending they have it all together. The only one wondering whether there’s another way to lead, work, or show up as themselves.
When I speak, I bring stories from my own life and work, questions worth sitting with, and room for people to recognize something in themselves or each other.
The conversation takes its shape from who’s in the room and what matters to them. We might explore leadership, moving through adversity, or what happens when we stop spending so much energy trying to be who we think we’re supposed to be.
My hope is that people leave with something they can use. A different perspective. Words for something they hadn’t been able to explain. A little more permission to be themselves.
Let’s talk about your eventI spent a lot of my life learning how to be invisible in the room.
How to read people. Notice what mattered. Adjust. Become enough like my surroundings that I could belong without being fully seen.
What started as a way to get through life became a way of understanding it. Spend enough time in enough rooms and you start to notice what makes us different, what makes us alike, and how much a change in perspective can reveal.
But understanding everyone else doesn’t necessarily mean you know how to be yourself.
The Death of the Chameleon is the story behind that work. My work. A life shaped by adaptation, trauma, unexpected turns, and a whole lot of grace and kindness. And the ongoing discovery of who I am when I stop trying to disappear.
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