Executive creative leadership with communication, technology + strategy lens. Exceptionally strong with people and facilitating decision process. Disrupter. Systems thinker. Words guy. I have a knack for telling people’s stories back to them better than they told it themselves.Expert generalist.LinkedIn buzzwords can be foggy. But I'm the kind of creative leader, communicator, and strategist that has been successful in whatever pot I find myself cooking. I’m exceptionally good at absorbing information, leading conversations, and defining problems. I’m a design-thinker by training and a journalist by nature. I can lead from the center—I know how to host and draw out what matters—or facilitate from the side, so the team makes effortless progress. I’m fast with words but quick to listen.I know the keyboard shortcuts.I create strategies, and think most strategies dissolve without startlingly clear communication. I write. I'm intrinsically motivated. I like to laugh.I need whiteboards.I’ve been the managing director of a NYC boutique marketing firm and the executive leader of a national non-profit. I’ve written the longform cover story for a national magazine & 4-word UX copy. I wrote an academic thesis on Twitter and theology (that’s not a typo). I host & produce a podcast that people actually listen to.Focus a team? I can help you make decisions you are proud of.Solve a problem? I investigate the relationship between people + process.Build and grow a brand from scratch? Let's tell a story.Edit and lead a publication? Coaching writers + creators towards a goal is my speciality.I am actively consulting but am open to a key leadership role in the right organization.Experience keywords: leadership coaching structures, brand + strategy, design thinking, UX / CX, non-profit development, group process and decision making, change management, business analysis, theological ethics, communications, history of communications media, digital media ecology, social media theory, branding and identity, group life-cycle and dynamics, adult pedagogy, corporate training, event production, Fortune 500 IT consulting, conflict resolution, contextual theology, Christian doctrine of scripture, rhetoric and persuasion, technology usability and information hierarchy, music criticism, writing and editing, city biking, small + medium business marketing funnels.