Executive Advisor & Decision Partner to Founders and Boards in Moments of Consequence
Clarity
Insight
JUDGMENT
DIRECTION
where the work begins
Most people reach out when something important is changing.
A founder’s role no longer fits the organization they built. A board senses the need for a different future but cannot yet name it. An organization is growing, restructuring, or confronting realities that its existing assumptions no longer explain.
The question underneath the work is often: What does this organization need to become now—and what does that require of the people who hold authority within it?
what i do
Whether the work begins with a specific decision or a broader sense that “something isn’t quite right,” I bring perspective and considered judgment to decisions with lasting implications for the organization—so what is decided can be lived with, not just implemented.
My work is informed by The Daisy Framework™, a sensemaking and maturity lens I developed to support sound judgment in complex situations. It is not a prescribed method, but a way of seeing—helping leaders distinguish signal from noise, recognize emerging patterns, and discern what the organization requires next.
how i work
Executive Advisor
Alongside leaders carrying consequential decisions
Fractional Executive
Experienced leadership without a full-time role
Interim Executive
Stepping in to lead through transition or stabilization
My first job is to understand what is actually happening and what the situation requires. The right form of engagement follows from there.
About Me
Earlier in my career, I co-founded and led a multi-city enterprise employing more than 70 staff and over 100 freelancers. Later, I founded and led a community-based nonprofit, building it from concept to operating organization and guiding its transition to next-stage leadership.
Those experiences taught me that organizations are shaped as much by judgment as by strategy—and that the consequences of leadership decisions are often lived long after they are made.
Since then, I have advised leaders across sectors and served in interim and fractional executive roles, bringing the perspective of someone who has built organizations, led through change, and carried responsibility for what happens next.
The Daisy Framework™ grew from a synthesis of decades of experience, study, and thousands of conversations with people carrying responsibility in organizations. Underneath it is a question I have been asking since my years as a business owner: What is our right relationship with the organizations we lead and serve?
Clients engage me because they value the perspective and considered judgment that come from having led organizations, advised leaders, and lived through the consequences of difficult decisions.
Learn more about me on LinkedIn.
For a deeper sense of my thinking, visit my Substack.
