I'm a writer and strategic advisor. At liminal moments, I help people and organizations see what they cannot yet name and find creative paths forward.

I've spent my career at consequential moments: reinvention when fundamental shifts challenge established business models; leapfrogging when new technologies create opportunities to rethink what's possible; and refounding when crises call on organizations to remember who they are and what they stand for. I've explored these challenges from different vantage points, as an executive at IBM, an entrepreneur, and more recently, through my work with CEOs at Yale.

With organizations

I advise boards, founders, and executive teams on the decisions that shape how organizations perform, evolve, and endure. Sometimes the challenge is strategic: where to compete, what to build, how to reinvent an established business. Other times it is organizational: aligning team and culture with a new direction, or navigating leadership transitions. Where it helps, I stay to put the choices into practice.

With leaders

I partner with senior leaders and founders navigating consequential decisions and transitions. Many have accomplished a great deal, yet find themselves in unfamiliar territory where competence alone is no longer enough. Our conversations move between the practical and the personal, between what they know and what they sense but cannot yet articulate. Together, we discover what is essential and design what comes next, for their organizations and for themselves.

On the page

For decades, writing was the only place I could find words for things I couldn't say aloud. Over time, it became more than an outlet. It became a way of staying with what is hard to know and listening for what is unsaid. In turn, working closely with leaders has deepened my curiosity about what drives people and what allows them to change. My current project is a literary memoir that follows the Vietnam War forward through three generations of women, asking what it takes to transform survival skills into the capacity for loving.

Now

Updated October 2026

Advising the leadership and boards of the Data & Trusted AI Alliance and Yale's Program on Stakeholder Innovation and Management. Working privately with CEOs and founders. Writing and revising a literary memoir.

Path

2026–present: Strategic Advisor to the Board and Executive Leadership, Yale Program on Stakeholder Innovation and Management (Y-SIM) and the Data & Trusted AI Alliance

2024–2026: Managing Director, Y-SIM, Yale School of Management

2023–present: Independent strategic advisory practice

2021–2023: Co-Founder & CEO, MLD, a technology startup focused on leadership, culture, and performance

2021–2024: Mentor to founders of science-based ventures, NYU Endless Frontier Labs

2002–2021: Vice President, IBM. Leadership roles spanning research, consulting, new business creation, and enterprise transformation

Education

M.S., Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business

B.S., Industrial Engineering; B.A., English, Lehigh University

Writing Fellowships & Programs

  • 2026 | Poet & Author Fellowship, Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing

  • 2026 | Scholarship Winner, Sonoma County Writers Camp

  • 2023 | Selected Participant, Sirenland Writers Conference

Connect

For advisory conversations, board inquiries, speaking engagements or literary correspondence, I'd welcome hearing from you.