Work With Me

Most organizations I work with don't have an idea problem. They have a room where everyone already knows what's broken and nobody can say what would actually have to change.

That's the room I'm useful in.

The work runs across violence prevention, reentry, homelessness, and the places where those systems hand the same person back and forth without anyone holding the whole thing. It takes three shapes.

Speaking. Conferences, staff days, panels. I don't do inspirational. Give me one hard thing your audience already lives with and I'll give them a way to think about it that still holds up on Monday.

Program design and technical assistance. Building something new, or working out why something already running isn't producing what it promised. That includes the unglamorous half: what gets measured, who's accountable, and how you'd know in twelve months whether it worked.

Consulting and advising. Usually with leadership, usually ongoing. Strategy, hard calls, and the question underneath most of them, which is whether a thing is worth doing at all.

Here's the part I don't get to leave out.

I'm not the right hire if you need someone to confirm a decision that's already made. I'm also a poor fit if what you actually need is a deliverable for a funder rather than a program that works, because I'll keep asking about the program.

Bring me a question about whether something can be done and you'll get an answer about what it would take, plus my honest read on whether that's worth what it costs. Sometimes that comes back a no. I'd rather hand you the no in week one than bill you for the long way around to it.

Tell me what isn't working.