I think about how people and organizations change.
For twenty-five years I've worked in and around education and organizational learning: leading teams, building learning systems, watching closely to see what helps people grow and what only looks like it does.
What I keep coming back to
People don't really grow in workshops, whatever the calendar says. They grow doing real work, next to people they trust. I've seen it hold in classrooms and boardrooms and a lot of rooms in between, and I'm still a little surprised at how rarely we build for it.
When change goes sideways, the strategy is usually fine. What's wobbling sits underneath it: who counts on whom, what's gone unsaid, whether people can picture themselves in wherever this is heading.
And the hardest calls I've watched people face were almost never short on information. They were short on clarity, the slow and slightly uncomfortable work of naming what matters most when you can't have all of it.
Outside of work
I dabble in photography, tinker with mesh networking for reasons that made sense at the time, and vibe-code small tools for problems I've mostly manufactured for myself. Occasional hiker. Slow runner. Coloradan. I have friends everywhere.