Over a long and varied career in publishing and marketing, I have discovered a passion for helping brands and business leaders tell their stories. In each of my previous roles in the design, digital publishing, and consulting industries, I have seen how honest, well-crafted stories and thought leadership can be a powerful driver of business and brand awareness. I look forward to helping Gensler craft compelling stories and reach new heights as the firm's editorial director. My professional discipline was heavily informed by my early career as a full time writer. I have authored nine books of non-fiction including The Curious Boys Book of Adventure and Manspace: A Primal Guide to Marking Your Territory. My writing has appeared in Dwell, Metropolis, GOOD, and others. I was also the ghost writer for A Fine Line: How Design Strategies are Shaping the Future of Business by Hartmut Esslinger, the founder of frog design and a legendary industrial designer. I've given talks at TED University in Oxford, Pecha Kucha in Austin, the Thinking Digital conference in Newcastle, England, and the Folio: Media Next conference in New York. Before my freelance career, I traveled the world, starting in Europe, Central America and Mexico before making my way to Fiji and Australia, where I worked for cash in a coffee shop to pay for my way to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, The Philippines, and Nepal, at which time I bought embroidered T-shirts to sell in Camden Market, London, to buy a plane ticket to Montreal where I caught a train to Thunder Bay, Ontario, which is where I started planting trees. 80,000 of them later, I ended on the side of a mountain in northern British Columbia and decided it was time to come home. My poetry has been published in Borderlands: A Texas Poetry Review and The Santa Barbara Review.