I am a growth-oriented team builder, facilitator and mental health advocate with a background in corporate culture and clinical research. For 20 years I’ve helped professionals in philanthropy, science, and technology to work and lead effectively.
As a scientist-turned-cultural strategist, I apply the principles of ecology, integrity, and lifelong learning to facilitate a range of professional styles and expertise. I’m an avid reader, slow eater, coffee drinker, and proud dog dad who loves the outdoors and exploring trends in leadership, cyborgology, and social technology and psychology.
As a strategist, I focus on the science of relationships, using evidence-based methods to empower others to sharpen their own ability to navigate the complexity of human behavior inside and outside of work. As a former scientist, I take a systems approach to understand our social norms and structures—in other words, to make sense of how it all connects, and what this means for our individual and collective mental health.
I’ve worked with top universities, biotech companies, medical practices, tech consulting firms, lawyers, philanthropists and social investors, the world’s #1 fashion magazine, the UN, and the US Department of State.
I got my start in corporate culture, working in human resources for an advanced tech manufacturer, managing benefits and internal communications for a few hundred employees, including 50 remote workers. The VP of HR said this about my work: “Whether helping to coordinate sexual harassment training, transferring the employee database to a new technology platform, on-boarding new hires, or recruiting for temporary positions for department heads, his heart was always with the employees.” I’m proud to say this has never changed.
As a genetic scientist, I helped pioneer a technology for organizing gene expression by ethnicity, making it possible to gauge drug response by genetic predisposition and dramatically reduce human loss in clinical trials. Later in Washington, DC, I co-developed a resource for students that received national recognition from the US Department of Education.
In São Paulo, I launched a comms program for a membership association representing 20,000 philanthropic entities across five continents. In San Francisco, I partnered with major tech brands to support 10 million organizations worldwide. In Istanbul, I presented a framework for developing social media’s role in sustainable urban development. And in New York, I worked with the United Nations to advance ethical tech from the launch of the Post-2015 Agenda in 2013 to the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2016.
From documenting the landscape of civil societies to mapping genetic histories and workplace ethnographies, I’m inspired by how we use technology to connect and build innovative partnerships. This led me to Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab where I hosted the Digital Impact 4Q4 podcast—advancing safe and effective digital practice by sharing the work of practitioners and policy experts with a global audience.
Building on my work at George Mason University, Stanford University, and now as a student at the University of Vermont, I’m creating a framework for mental health that reimagines how we connect with ourselves, our work, our tech, and each other.