Author of a dozen non-fiction books for some of the largest publishers in the world, including several books that were global top-sellers. Made regular appearances on CNBC with did speaking engagements from Quebec to Japan. Writing style shifted after a decade of going dark to re-emerge with the national bestselling, award-winning Dear William: A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love and Loss.Follow up memoir to Dear William, titled A Little Crazy, published in September 2024, about finding purpose and joy amid distractions. As the author of business and leadership books, had the good fortune to closely with some of the world's leading CEO's and brands, including Carlos Ghosn, John Deere, Toyota, Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, and Bill Ford Jr., which provided a wonderful forum for learning. Books include:A Little Crazy: Finding Purpose and Joy Amid the Madness (Sept 2024) Things Have Changed: What Every Parent (and Educator) Should Know About the Student Mental Health and Substance Misuse Crisis Dear William: A Father’s Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love and Loss; a Publisher’s Weekly national bestseller, starred review from Kirkus The Education of Mr. Mayfield (Blair); named best non-fiction book in the south (Ippy Awards.)How Toyota Became #1(Penguin); named a top 10 business book of the year in the U.S. (2008) by the American Library Association (Booklist)Jeff Immelt and the New GE Way (McGraw-HIll)How Carlos Ghosn Rescued Nissan (HarperCollins)The John Deere Way (Wiley)Playing to Win: Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys (Random House)Endurance: The Phil Mickelson Way (Wiley)

Digital audience consultant for Newsweek, one of the largest and best-known news brands in America, and other digital news companies. Helped grow the audience with SEO, targeted strategy and planning and reporter recruitment from across the United States.

President of Oxford Newsmedia LLC, and publisher of The Oxford Eagle and Oxford magazine. The Oxford Eagle is six-day daily, while Oxford magazine is a monthly subscription glossy featuring the lifestyle and culture of Oxford and Ole Miss. Our newspaper is one of the few legacy newspapers in America to experience double-digit revenue growth in the past year and we're quite proud of that.Also spend time on a passion cause, helping build and create a wellness center at the University of Mississippi for alcohol and drug education.

Served as Senior Director of Content for AL.com, one of the largest local news sites in the U.S. Taught new digital techniques to spur growth and helped hire some of the nation's top talent. Also served as Publisher of Birmingham magazine, and as a Vice President, Ventures during my three-year tenure. Our products included The Birmingham News, The Mobile Press-Register, and The Huntsville Times in addition to AL.com and Birmingham magazine. Created the successful brand thisisalabama.org, helping find founding corporate sponsors while building from ground-up a positive storytelling forum for Alabama.

IBT became one of the fastest growing news sites in the world in 2011 as cited by comscore during tenure. We hired some of the most talented writers in the world in the span of one year, as we ramped up this fledgling site into one of the fastest growing international news sites. Many writers have since become some of America's top digital journalists and editors, at sites and newspapers like Huffington Post, The New York Times, AL.com, the Sacramento Bee and more.It was a 7-year experience in dog years -- one year of actual time -- at ground zero at a key transitional moment in news to digital, the boom years, in which learning new techniques and styles with ramped up at hyper-speed. Took a group of hungry reporters and editors of all ages and literally went from almost zero to 14 million unique visitors per month in a short period of time.