About

For almost fifteen years, I organized my life around the idea of being an academic, of getting my PhD and living the life of a tenured humanities professor at a small liberal arts college.

In 2000, I graduated with my PhD in the History of Christianity, but decided to leave the academy and try my hand in the “real world”—and have never looked back.

Shortly thereafter, I took a temp position as a copyeditor and decided almost immediately that corporate leadership was something I wanted to strive for, although I had no idea at the time what that might mean more specifically.

As time went on, I moved from editorial and print production to electronic development editing, and from there to IT, where I worked as a business analyst, project manager, and application development manager on B2B and B2C websites, ERP systems, and in network operations.

I was on a path, from getting out of bed in the morning to edit content, to getting out of the bed in the morning to solve problems with technology. I reached a point, however, where I wanted to solve problems with strategy, not just with technology, and I made the move to a boutique consulting firm to cut my teeth on corporate strategy engagements.

Since then, I’ve had the privilege to work with over fifty Global 2000 clients and observe first-hand their culture and their leaders at work, succeeding and failing, at their best and at their worst.

I’m excited one day to be given the responsibility to lead a large technology organization, and am working every day to prepare myself for that opportunity.

Given where I’m coming from, I have three goals for this blog:

1. To be intentional about the process of my own transformation as a leader
2. To create a forum where I can communicate my thoughts on leadership
3. To foster a community where others who are on this journey (or who are interested in this journey) can explore the meaningful overlap and gaps between my journey and theirs