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Brief intro

I live in Tacoma, Washington, USA with my sweetheart Liana and two kids.

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 a few things. People know what’s wrong with their organizations, but struggle to talk about what’s going on. Figuring out what to do next is harder still. I’ve learned that stillness is a discipline, and that when it’s time to act, the best actions are usually pretty simple. 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 (formerly Kaizen) Coffee. Monthly gathering of folks interested in continuous improvement and independent work. We rotate between locally-owned cafes.
  • A sangha with Tacoma Buddhist Center. We sit weekly for meditation followed by community, readings, and discussion.
  • Lex Roman’s Legends network. An unruly gaggle of a couple hundred people figuring out how to do their best work.

Memberships: Pacific Northwest Organization Development Network; the Center for a Loving Workplace’s Principles Project; various other acronyms.

Find me online

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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.