I bring everything you can expect from an MBA with twenty years of consulting, startups, and impact work. There isn’t much I haven’t seen, and the things I haven’t already done, I teach myself to do very quickly — usually it’s easier to learn something and do it myself than to hire somebody or wait on a freelancer.
If it’s got anything to do with business, I can handle it. That’s the baseline I’d expect from a grown-up with a brain and some blood, sweat, and tears experience.
What makes me unusual is the way I work with complex, dynamic living systems. I could give you a spiel about being neurodivergent and having some sort of weird pattern recognition that lets me work with systems in a way few people can. I could give it fancy names — somatic processing, or something else that sounds suitably biological. But the reality of it is very, very, very simple.
When I come into contact with a system — a person, a business, a community — I sense what it needs to evolve into a higher order of functioning, into a more coherent place. And I sense what the next simple step is, the one that moves us in that direction and aligns with what the overall system actually needs right now.
This may already sound more complex than it is, because on some level all I do is warmer, colder. Things come up in conversation, in analysis, in starting to work together — and there’s a very clear sense of: this is warmer, this is moving toward more coherence, more elegance, let’s try this. If something comes up that’s entropy, it simply feels colder. That’s the whole game.
Frankly, the hard part has been learning to trust that this works — that it works every time, without exceptions, and gets me the results I’m looking for when I actually follow it. Building that trust over two decades has been the real work. The other real work has been learning to communicate it in a way that lands. The connections between now and months and years down the road look very, very obvious to me, and I jump from points in the system that to my mind are obviously connected — but that simply isn’t true for everybody. Arguably, the thing that has taken me the most time is learning to say this clearly, and to build trust in that capability so people listen when I say something that isn’t obvious to them.
That may sound like bragging. It’s actually just me trying to put into words where I create the most value, which has traditionally been very hard to package and sell. Which is why I’m a big fan of moving at the speed of trust: finding a first step that creates real value for both sides, and then, little by little, embracing deeper work together.
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