About

I'm an American living and working in Burgundy, France. I've spent my career inside founder-led businesses, in hospitality, professional services, and technology, first running them, now helping other people run theirs.

Today that work includes consulting, teaching, coaching and local publishing. Through Manor I help business owners map recurring work and build practical systems they can carry on using. At IUT Chalon-sur-Saône my teaching has included management science for engineering students. And alongside both, I coach the founders and executives living through the change their new systems create.

The through-line is the same across the work. A business, a classroom, a coaching relationship or a local guide: each one works when the thinking gets written down, tested against reality, and owned by the person who has to live with it.

I trained as a chemical engineer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, took a graduate degree in organization development at American University , and am a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach. I work in English and French.

What shapes the work

I keep a meditation practice in two traditions, Vipassana and Plum Village, and I'm slowly gathering a small sangha near home. Sitting is where I learn most of what I bring into a room: attention, patience, and the difference between a problem and the feeling about the problem.

My compass has two poles: David Goggins and Fred Rogers. One is the voice that says do the hard thing, stay when it burns, nobody is coming. The other treated attention as a form of care and never confused simple with shallow. I keep a personal archive of Rogers' work, the programs, the speeches, the interviews, and I return to it often. Courage comes in many forms. So does leadership. The people I work with usually need both poles: the will to face what is hard, and the softness to see who is in front of them.

And the vision that holds it together: AI organizes so humans can be more human. I build systems that carry the machinery of a business precisely so the people in it can give their hours to presence, relationships, and judgment. The point of the software is never the software.

What shapes the work

Life in Burgundy

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