About
I do the thing before I teach it.
I am not a consultant who read about this in a book. I run a foundation and a household on the same tools and the same clarity I bring to other leaders.
I am the CEO of a Mid-Atlantic foundation and the programs and projects under it, including a girls' sports program and a capital project I am working to build. I have led the organization for twelve years. I write for the Forbes Nonprofit Council. I raised two teenagers, and I walked my own family out of more than a hundred thousand dollars of debt by getting clear about what actually mattered.
Somewhere in the last few years, I rebuilt how I work. I run most of my executive week on AI now: the morning briefing that reads across my calendars and inbox before I open a tab, the knowledge base I can ask like a person, the board prep that finds the hole in my argument before the board does. It gave me back hours, and it changed what I think a small team can carry.
So this is the work I do alongside my own name. I help leaders and teams put AI to work, whether they want to be taught it, guided through it, or handed the finished thing. I advise other nonprofit leaders on the hard parts of running the organization, and I facilitate the rooms where those decisions get made, as someone who has actually held the chair. I coach a small number of people one to one, on the work and on the money. I speak on the same short list of things.
It is a short list on purpose, and I intend to keep it short, because the only reason to hire me for any of this is that I am still doing it myself. Less friction, more clarity, and nothing dressed up as more than it is.
What I believe about leadership
The biggest threat to a mission is rarely a lack of passion. It is the systems that burn out the people who care the most, and the leaders running those systems are usually looking at the same turnover numbers I am. Good tools and clear thinking are how you protect the people you cannot afford to lose.
What I believe about AI
It is not a robot takeover and it is not magic. It is a very capable assistant you talk to in plain words. Used well, it gives a mission-driven team back the hours it never had. The people it will affect most should be among the ones shaping it, not just using it.
How I work
Plainly, and with evidence. I would rather show you my real morning than sell you on a promise. I do not do hype, and I do not do jargon. If something is a first draft, I say so.
Keeping it clean
This work runs on my own time and tools, outside my day job, which my contract provides for. I do not take engagements with my employer's funders, grantees, vendors, or partners.
These indicate training completed and credentials held. They do not imply endorsement by the issuing organizations.
Contact
Tell me what you are working on.
A short note is the best place to start. I read and answer these myself.
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