I conduct one-on-one coaching with executives and professionals in all industries who want to negotiate better. We use the Oblinger & Tsang system of habits, curiosity, and guiding principles. We focus on managing emotions and biases, leveraging the discovery process, and listening skills to find the pain points

Political Law Compliance – Supervise legal, accounting, and compliance teams to drive the continued development, implementation, and monitoring of government ethics, lobbying, and campaign finance policies and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable U.S., Canada, EU Commission, and other international laws; collaborate with customers to identify key issues and to implement risk-measured training and policies to ensure compliance.Public Policy (Criminal Justice and Legal Reform)– Manage and connect people, organizations, and data to drive recommendations, activities, and projects, which will achieve equal justice under the rule of law for all. • Lead, drive, and sustain structural changes to the U.S. justice, administrative, and regulatory systems by connecting individual reform efforts and driving a focus on the long-term vision.• Lead criminal justice coalition that persuaded Congress to pass the First Step Act in 2018.• Build national business and philanthropic coalition committed to hiring and retaining people with criminal records in collaboration with the Society for Human Resource Management – Getting Talent Back to Work. • Leverage partners to drive programmatic changes in the collection of data, education, and rehabilitation of people currently in the prison/jail pipeline and people with criminal records re-entering society.• Lead development of collateral consequences of criminal record animation, which earned 2015 Aurora Award Best of Show.• Manage development and implementation of Safe Streets and Second Chances Reentry Initiative.• Collaborate with Kansas state business, chambers of commerce, and legal aid service providers to advocate for the Kansas Bar Association’s 712 rule change that now permits in-house counsel in Kansas to provide pro bono services.

1. Counsel corporations on implications arising out of potential and actual changes to the ethics and lobbying rules for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. 2. Advise major government contractors on and analyze federal criminal conflicts of interest laws, procurement integrity rules, Executive Branch Standards of Conduct, Congressional rules, public financial disclosure reporting requirements, United Nations ethics rules, and state and local conflict of interest statutes and regulations.3. Develop and conduct customized ethics and compliance workshops for business acquisition and finance personnel. 4. Counseling on General Services Administration contracting rules and procedures, SAFETY Act, security clearance, timekeeping charges, equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, federal appropriations and agency gift acceptance issues.5. Counseling on the Buy America Act, Berry Amendment, and Trade Agreements Act restrictions.

1. Advise Fortune 100, medium and small businesses on the implications of state and federal suspension/debarment rules; heavy exposure to all matters involving the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and other procurement related regulations and statutes. 2. Provide direct substantive support of the professional activities of the Defense Industry Initiative (DII) and the Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry Initiative (HGPII) on business ethics and conduct. 3. Evaluate public contracting ethics and compliance programs of major defense contractors measured against the United States Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations and provide recommendations for improvement to Board of Directors and senior management. 4. Advise major defense and healthcare contractors on federal criminal conflicts of interest laws, Executive Branch Standards of Conduct regulations, House of Representatives and Senate ethics rules, and state and local conflict of interest statutes and regulations.

1. Served as Acting Deputy Associate Counsel and de facto Special Assistant to Associate Counsel to the President. 2. Selected over senior staff to manage and to conduct conflicts of interest analysis and vetting of senior Presidential envoy and potential Presidential commission members. 3. Managed legal research, nominee, financial interests, and special events guest vetting drills requiring a systematic, detailed, and extensive search of all public sources for the Office of Counsel. 4. Successfully managed a portfolio of Presidential nominees for preclearance in matters related to financial disclosure and ethics requirements by collaborating with Office of Presidential Personnel, Office of Legislative Affairs, the Clearance Counsel, the relevant agency, and the Office of Government Ethics.

1. Developed an internal strategic Missile Defense Agency document that provided fiscal guidance and established agency priorities in its $8 billion per year budget.2. Edited FY04 President’s Budget Missile Defense Agency Program Overview that identified program performance and budget metrics for its $8 billion per year budget. 3. Evaluated export control regime and internal foreign disclosure processes to formulate export control and Missile Technology Control Regime options that would facilitate international missile defense cooperation.