Most leaders today have earned their roles through subject matter expertise, a capacity for impact, and innate leadership skills—the star engineer turned manager, or the rising scientist turned lab director. This initially takes leaders far, but team performance ultimately hits a wall.

Impact helps leaders build engines of innovation in the behaviors they cultivate and the people they hire, develop, and retain. It’s written from the trenches, and it presents an end-to-end guide to building entrepreneurial teams.

I help leaders level up their skills, their teams, and their impact. I advise on everything from product, to people, to other critical startup disciplines. My product experience includes strategy, development, usability, engagement, monetization, and growth; it also includes engineering practices and overall execution.

My goal is your success, and I strive for a substantive engagement where I get in, have impact, and get out of the way. I work mainly with tech startups, but I also advise (pro bono) nonprofits and schools.

Engaging with people directly is one of the fastest ways I can help a team level up. I speak across a range of topics, from my book, to product, to my time in Tech—and I’m happy to customize a talk from whatever’s in my wheelhouse. 

My style inverts the classic keynote then Q&A format: I start and end with audience engagement, dynamically shaping presentation content to match audience curiosity.