I founded Whitewater Consulting to help organizations better leverage their leaders to thrive amidst perpetual change. Over 20 years, I've honed inventive leadership learning platforms, like S2X™ (Strategy to Execution), that our Fortune 500 clients and management consulting partners are using to remain competitive. What sets us apart is our experience in getting companies like Disney, Nucor, and FedEx Supply Chain to the other side of challenging cultural transformations, as well as our involvement reimagining Callaway Gardens Resort and Perrier as an inside operator.OPENING MENTAL MODELSI foster diverse, innovative environments where leaders are receptive to taking risks and unlocking value in themselves and their teams. Often, this involves balancing seemingly paradoxical concepts such as having steadfast focus with nimble methods, or rugged individualism with effective collaboration, or toughness with caring and fun. To be readily applicable, Whitewater's model is both truthful and simple (even though it’s based on deep experience in the forces that drive organizational change). It’s simple because it’s designed to meet organizations where they are and move them to where they want to go. The truth hinges on transparency about the current state of chaos and how to make it worth it to harness.JUST LEAD, DAMMITAs a writer and speaker, I share stories about the powerful ways leaders can create a tangible vision of change/growth. I aim to inspire leaders to hold the conversations that engage all team members in taking things apart in order to put them back together improved. I teach the upside of not controlling the specific path and, instead, respecting the talent charged with determining the mutable 9,997 steps of the 10,000 step journey (Anyone can figure out the first three). More than the organizational impact, I'm humbled by the life-changing effect I've had on individual leaders and the opportunity to learn from hundreds of them.