Writing on leadership, change, and the future of work.
Most futures writing tells you what’s coming. This writing asks what you’re already assuming before you’ve started looking.
The essays here are about leadership, trust, organizational change, and the practice of Everyday Futurism — not as a forecast, but as a discipline. How assumptions harden into policy before anyone names them as assumptions. How convergences form before anyone models them. How the most consequential decisions are often the ones no one recognized as decisions yet.
These are long-form pieces. Written when there’s something worth saying. Not on a schedule.
Case Study · Assumption-Ground Audit · Witnessed Trust · April 13, 2026
The $30 Million Assumption Nobody Checked
One school board policy. One unexamined assumption nobody thought to question. Eighteen months of upstream work. $30 million in recovered value — and counting.
This is the essay that shows the Assumption-Ground Audit and Witnessed Trust in the same story: what it costs when ground is assumed rather than examined, and what changes when someone finally checks it.
Seven essays on trust, discernment, and what it means to notice something real — in organizations, in rooms, and in yourself.
The intellectual formation underneath the work.
Maclean’s · September 2024
Why I Made a Midlife Career Switch
A first-person account of 17 years in wealth management — the commute, the clock-watching, the tug-of-war between a career that made sense on paper and a life that didn’t — and what the pandemic made undeniable. The origin story of Everyday Futurism, in print.
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