I love ideas. Big ideas. Small ideas. Bad ideas. Profound ideas.Helping a group get to its best idea is just plain fun for me. It opens up the possibility of a future that looks better than the present.To get to the future that the idea calls us to, I focus on two questions:1. What is every single step that it will take to get us there?Whether you call it progress mapping or reverse engineering or something else entirely, building steps and taking them one by one lets organizations move in a seemingly effortless way over the walls that other groups keep crashing into.2. Who are the people outside of our organization that will go there with us?If your group could make the idea a reality on its own, it probably would have already done so. Will this idea’s implementation take us across departments? Across disciplines? Across industries?So, when the idea was to implement a program to address violence among inner-city children, I brought together a University’s nursing program, a public school, and a neighborhood church to build and staff an interactive children's museum to teach peacebuilding skills.Or when the idea was to launch a new degree program beyond the capacity of a university, I found a way to partner with another university to launch a new program together.And when the idea was to get students at a challenged urban school to become deeply vested in studying ancient civilizations, I connected popular animated movies, a local museum, a music teacher, and an out-of-state world traveler to rewrite the curriculum and bring instruction to life.Get the idea?I love ideas.I love seeing those ideas become reality.I bring a balanced blend of comprehensive academic credentials with extensive experience across a range of disciplines. If your organization is ready for fresh ideas and creative, cooperative ways to reshape the future, please contact me so we can get started on that future today.