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Brief intro

I live in Tacoma, Washington, USA with my sweetheart Liana, two kids, and one ancient cat. We’ve been here for fifteen years; before that, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

  • I’m a friendly, busy management consultant. I help my clients and their teams with things like group facilitation, deciding what to do and how to tell if they did it, and plain old making things a little less bad every day. More about this work.
  • When I’m not doing all that, I read constantly, write intermittently, walk around my neighborhood, loiter in libraries, and meet friends for coffee. The garden is overgrown but I’ve come to enjoy the scruffy look.
  • Across 20 years of consulting I’ve learned that people know what’s wrong with their organizations but struggle to talk about it. I’ve learned that stillness is a discipline. This site is where I work through these and other ideas, with you. Welcome.

Ways we can connect

Hang outs & affiliations

I’m part of these local and online groups. Join me in any of them:

  • Emerge (Kaizen) Coffee. Monthly gathering of folks interested in continuous improvement and independent work. We rotate between locally-owned coffee shops.
  • A sangha with Tacoma Buddhist Center. We sit weekly for meditation followed by community, readings, and discussion.
  • Center for a Loving Workplace. What might it be like to work in organizations bound by love instead of fear? Currently developing the Principles Project.
  • Lex Roman’s Legends network. A loose gaggle of a couple hundred people figuring out how to do their best work.

Find me online

Easiest ways to reach me:

Other places I show up:

Thanks for stopping by

If at this point you want the clearest possible view of what goes on inside my brain, you should probably swing by the Quote barn.