ABOUT
Poet, Entrepreneur, and Keynote Speaker
MY STORY
I break patterns on purpose so better outcomes can emerge.
I learned how to do that during a decade in Silicon Valley—studying at Stanford University and working at Google—where innovation is less about inspiration and more about structure. You test assumptions. You design constraints. You build before certainty arrives.
At the same time, I started applying that mindset to an old form of art that I loved, but that lots of people feel like they don’t “get.” Instead of treating poetry as words on a page that captivate bookworms but leaves lots of others scratching their heads, I wanted to treat it as an experience to be designed. Timing, environment, interactivity, friction—the medium became what I obsessed over innovating on.
Google showed me how to innovate.
Art taught me how to do it differently.
That way of thinking reshaped my creative practice into interactive and immersive experiences—and it came to define the work I do with organizations.
Today, I combine the discipline of Silicon Valley thinking with an artist’s imaginative toolbox. I help leaders and teams break patterns that are producing diminishing returns, generate ideas that are both bold and workable, and move forward even when the path isn’t fully clear.
My keynotes aren’t about chasing originality for its own sake. They’re about giving people practical ways to do different things differently—so better outcomes can emerge.
I can’t wait to share what I’ve learned with you.
Ways for us to team up
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Keynotes
I’ll create an experience for your event that provides your audience with tools to get them applying an attitude of creative innovation to the areas of their work that matter.
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Workshops
Want to dig in on a specific business challenge? These longer engagements will lead your team through creative innovation exercises to help them examine and manipulate a challenge, walking a way with an expanded set of possibilities for how to tackle it.