Agile coach · AI educator · writer · partner dancer
I pay close attention to the forces most people don't have names for: the dynamics that shape how organizations move, how humans learn, and how change actually sticks. Then I build things to work with those forces instead of against them.
I came to all of this through curiosity and stubbornness — not a pedigree. Fifteen years helping organizations navigate big technology changes taught me one thing over and over: the barrier is almost never the technology. It's whether people feel safe enough to explore, supported enough to experiment, and trusted enough to make something their own.
The thing I'm always working on — in every project, every classroom, every facilitation session — is what I call organizational proprioception: the embodied awareness of how a group actually functions, where the energy is moving, where it's stuck. Most organizations can see their org chart but can't feel themselves moving. That gap is where I live.
I do this through consulting, teaching, community-building, writing, and occasionally, a very good blues dance.
Consulting
I help organizations build real AI fluency — not by training people on tools, but by helping them reimagine how they work together. I've run these engagements at companies from small startups to Fortune 100s, and the hard part is always human coordination, not the software.
Visit Kinetic Change →Product startup
The newest thing I'm building with others — an AI and coaching company designed for the moments that matter most in healthcare. The flagship is Daisy, a non-directive clarity companion that helps patients and clinicians articulate what they actually think, fear, hope for, and need understood — without anyone rushing in with advice. The bet underneath it: in a system overflowing with tools that demand attention, the most useful thing AI can do is make space for clearer thinking instead of filling it.
Visit WhisperQuake →Education
My training program for professionals who use AI every day but can't hand their judgment over to it. The tools are everywhere; the thinking skills weren't included. Keep Your Mind is a six-week cohort — small by design — that rebuilds the comprehension and critical-thinking practices that quietly atrophy when AI does the drafting. The goal isn't 10x output. It's 10x judgment.
Visit Keep Your Mind →Community
A community for founders and managers of nonprofits and mission-driven organizations — and for anyone who wants to use AI in service of purpose-driven goals. It's the newest subgroup of the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG), a Boulder-based 501(c)(3) with 4,500 members. As a steering committee member, I'm helping build a space where people doing mission-driven work can learn from each other what AI adoption actually looks like when the measure of success is impact, not profit.
Join AI for Good Colorado →Teaching
This is where it started — small groups learning AI at my actual kitchen table. It's since become a flexible curriculum that meets people where they are, role by role, skill level by skill level. The format is flipped-classroom with build labs: learn on your own time, then come together to build things and teach each other. That's what a learning community actually looks like.
Contact me to express interest in joining the next cohort →Community leadership
I lead the Human-Centered AI Special Interest Group under Agile Denver and hold a board seat there. It's a monthly gathering for practitioners who think the conversation about AI needs to include the people doing the actual work — not just the tools, the vendors, and the executives who bought them.
Join the meetup →Writing
I write about the inconvenient human stuff that happens in workplaces. Power dynamics, group psychology, why change is hard, why people resist things that are obviously good for them. It's part workplace anthropology, part practical wisdom, and occasionally just me thinking out loud about something I don't fully understand yet.
Read on Substack →Play
I dance West Coast Swing, Lindy Hop, Balboa, Tango, and Blues. Partner dancing has taught me more about listening, timing, and nonverbal communication than any leadership training ever did. You can't fake presence on a dance floor — the feedback is immediate and completely honest. It's the most direct embodiment of everything I mean by organizational proprioception, just with much better music.
Organizations I've worked with
