“Explore. Dream. Discover. Do.” A Mark Twain/Joe Randel Collab
To my arts friends, I’m a business guy. To my business friends, I’m an arts guy. Some know me as a strategist, others as a coach — or that person you bring in when two very different groups need to actually understand each other, and who is weirdly comfortable being in the room when they do. (My grandfather thought I might be a spy. I’m not, but I do love blending in.) At heart, I’m a people person—and a believer in the power of shared experiences.
My Story
I've spent 25 years in a lot of different rooms. Concert halls and boardrooms. Nonprofits and foundations. Retreats and classrooms and the occasional very tense all-hands meeting. The settings have changed a lot. What I've learned in them hasn't.
People, it turns out, are pretty much the same everywhere. They want to do good work. They want to be heard. They want to understand and be understood. And most of the time, the gap between where they are and where they want to be isn't about information or effort — it's about whether they can actually make sense of each other.
That's the gap I've built a career around closing. Through facilitation, I help groups have the conversations they need to have. Through coaching, I help leaders think more clearly about the challenges they're carrying. Through consulting, I bring a senior outside perspective to organizations navigating change, complexity, or a problem they haven't quite been able to crack.
The common thread isn't the service. It's the approach: stay curious, listen carefully, ask better questions, and trust that the people in the room have more to work with than they think.
My work is grounded in training from Voltage Control, The McCombs School of Business at UT-Austin, and The Jindal School of Management at UT-Dallas — and shaped by 25 years of experience that taught me more than any program ever could.