I'm an Appreciative Inquiry expert who specializes in helping leaders find the right questions for their organization: questions that shift thinking, open new possibilities, inspire insights, and move organizations and people toward powerful strategies. I focus on leaders and organizations that are committed to the common good. Why? Because workdays are too long, life is too short, and our futures are too interconnected to do anything else. By asking powerful questions supported by proven frameworks for leadership and change, I bring these organizations uncommon insight they can put to work immediately.

Collaborative Gain is a community (*not* a conference) of smart, passionate leaders who help each other build better, more customer (and employee) centric companies. We create a safe zone for members to talk about what they need to be better leaders, make better decisions and have more impact on their businesses.Members include companies like Apple, Airbnb, Nike, Google, TripAdvisor, USAA, Walmart, Warby Parker, Wells Fargo, and more. These companies send smart, operating executives in areas like product, UX, customer experience, strategy, marketing, data science, etc. to learn from each other and our moderators.Tangible benefits of membership include two annual retreats; local dinners and pop-up councils; access to a private online Request for Help system along with 365 day access to over 1,000 smart leaders; and an executive coaching program. Most valuably, members also get the benefits of smarter, faster decision-making and cost-saving and revenue-generating ideas.

I leaders and organizations achieve the results they need in the areas of strategy, change, leadership development, coaching, culture shift, and communications. My approach is grounded in collaborative methodologies that drive real results. Current and former clients include global NGOs, and firms working in healthcare, insurance, energy, software, manufacturing, higher education, and more.

The Center for Values-Driven Leadership helps leaders develop themselves and others so they can build flourishing organizations that transform business and society. My work builds connections between global executives and the Center, in order to help them reach their personal and organizational objectives. These connections are created through our communications and marketing strategy that integrates a vibrant web and social media presence with targeted external media, events, research, video, thought leadership initiatives, and personal interaction.

Guiding organizations in unifying their media strategies with branding, marketing, and internal and external communications.

As a senior church advisor, I worked with some of World Vision's largest donor churches to help care for children around the world. My responsibilities included fundraising, event marketing, leading global travel teams, and strategy for regional growth.

Following my Peace Corps service, I returned to World Vision and in 2007 was promoted to lead a seven person team that provided marketing, operations, and human resources assistance to our region. This required managing a $4 million budget with expected fundraising of over $28 million. We were innovators in cause marketing and the use of video and social media in domestic and international contexts. We launched Team World Vision, starting with one runner. It is now the largest charity in the Chicago marathon and a multi-million dollar fundraiser for the organization. My work occasionally involved media relations, including serving as a correspondent covering crisis response in Pakistan, following the 2005 earthquake.

As a Peace Corps volunteer, I worked across cultures to help a nongovernmental organization address fundraising and program concerns for their two dozen local organizations.

In this role I coordinated communications and marketing for World Vision's Chicago region, including overseeing a branding process, working with media, and event coordination. My team was among the first to use event marketing and personal fundraising pages to shine a light on the global AIDS crisis.

As the University Editor I was responsible for the writing and design of the university's alumni magazine.