I notice what helps people grow. I'm trying to create more and consume less.
For twenty-plus years I've worked in and around education and organizational learning: leading teams, building learning systems, and noticing what helps people grow and what only looks like it does.
What I keep coming back to
People don't really grow in workshops, regardless of what the calendar says. They grow while they're engaged in real work alongside people they trust. I've seen it in districts, classrooms, and boardrooms and a lot of rooms in between, and I'm always a little surprised at how rarely we design for it.
When change goes sideways, the strategy is usually fine. What's wobbling is what sits just underneath it: who leans on whom, what's going unsaid, and ultimately whether people can picture themselves as a part of wherever this is heading.
In the hardest calls I've watched people make, they were almost never short on information. They were short on clarity and had skipped over the slow, slightly uncomfortable work of deciding what matters most when you can't have all of it.
Outside of work
I'm a builder and tinkerer. I have recently returned to dabbling in photography, started experimenting with mesh networking for reasons that made sense at the time, and started vibe-coding small tools for problems I've mostly manufactured for myself. Occasional hiker. Slow runner. Coloradan. I have friends everywhere.