Insights on Building Mission-Driven Organizations
Practical lessons from 15+ years of leadership across nonprofits, real estate, and healthtech. Topics include AI implementation, nonprofit operations, business systems, and what it takes to scale organizations without losing your mission.
Why I'm Going Back to School to Study the Thing I've Spent My Career Doing
This August I'm starting a Doctor of Business Administration at Texas State. Not to step away from the work, but to study the problem I've hit in every organization I've run: they grow faster than their operational maturity, and the systems quietly end up built around a single person. Here's why I'm formalizing fifteen years of operating into research.
The Secret Sauce Behind My Operator Career Is Not an MBA, It Is Zapier
Zapier has quietly been the continuing education program of my operator career.
Not in the “take a course, get a certificate” way. In the “oh wow, I just rebuilt an entire department in an afternoon” way.
I did not come up through some glossy MBA to COO pipeline. I came up through broken spreadsheets, duct-taped CRMs, and nonprofit budgets that forced you to make hard choices fast. When you do not have headcount, you have to invent leverage. Zapier was the first tool that gave me that leverage.