Working Together

Three ways to work together, depending on what you need.

Operator/Advisor (ongoing retainer)

A standing thought partner for a founder, CEO, or executive director. We meet regularly to work through the decisions in front of you: priorities, team structure, hard conversations, growth tradeoffs, and leadership transitions. Best for leaders who want a seasoned sounding board who has run a company and understands how organizations work.

Purpose & Strategy Alignment (project)

A defined engagement to help a leadership team or whole organization clarify what it's for and turn that into direction. Typically includes stakeholder interviews, a strengths-based assessment, facilitated workshops, and a small set of strategic priorities the team owns. Best for organizations at an inflection point: rapid growth, a stall, a new leader, or a mission that has drifted.

Facilitated Sessions & Offsites

A single session or offsite designed around a specific question: setting priorities, resetting a leadership team, or unsticking a team that's stuck. Sessions draw on structured dialogue and, when it helps, creative play and a little parody to get people thinking differently.

Who I work with:

I work with founder-led and mission-driven organizations at an inflection point: when growth, a leadership transition, or a changing market means the old way of deciding no longer works. That often looks like:

  • A founder or CEO whose company has outgrown the instincts that got it here

  • A nonprofit or foundation preparing for a leadership transition or rethinking its strategy

  • A leadership team that's aligned in the meeting but pulling in different directions afterward

I've built in film and TV production, early internet communities, and a consumer brand that scaled to $300M, and I've helped nonprofits rethink strategy from their strengths. The pattern holds across industries.

Partners: For larger engagements, I bring in trusted collaborators in leadership coaching, brand, design research, operations, and finance.

Logistics: I work in person in the Bay Area and remotely anywhere. Engagements typically run from 3-month projects to 18-month advisory retainers.

Let's talk!