Background:

I look for the signal that matters.

Environmental science trained me to read a landscape as a system: inputs, outputs, flows, feedback loops. I surveyed over 500 culverts in the Potomac River watershed one summer. I catalogued specimens in a herbarium of 860,000 plants. I analyzed climate risk in a hedge fund’s mortgage-backed security portfolio. Then I moved into production, and found the same lens applied. An audience is a system too. Most organizations working towards a sustainable future are not short on substance. They are short on the time to find the signal in it, shape it, and put in front of the people whose attention matters.