Essays on creative leadership,
culture, and the human side of work.

My aunt offered many lessons, solace, and grace across fifty years.

My adoptive parents’ navigations of trauma and abuse offered me my first lessons in managing others.

I had all the props for a perfect nostalgia play. Would the world join me on stage?

I wasn’t ready to match my father’s violence. There were other ways to push back.

How being a foster and adopted child engendered expert-level situational awareness.

Stuck in the middle and eager to get out.

An act of kindness was a gift of future wisdom.