Field Notes
I have learned something inside of every organization I've worked inside. How prestige masks operational fragility, how brand strategy applies to people, and what happens when global scale outpaces the systems meant to support the people running it.
In my field notes you will find the lessons we all carry out of those rooms, the patterns we recognize across them, and the moments that shaped how we think about work, leadership, and what organizations owe the people who build them. Field Notes is where professional history becomes usable insight and where dig a little deeper into my substack pieces Career Communiqué.
The Management Read: How Modern Is Your Management?
A ten-question read on how your management works today across conditions, pattern, load, and design. It takes about three minutes and comes with a free result.
Beyond the Behavior
Feedback is never just personal. Our behaviors develop within systems of expectations, incentives, and relationships. Pattern-aware feedback helps managers examine those conditions and turn better understanding into meaningful action.
The Plan and the People
Workforce planning asks what work the organization needs, and talent management asks who its people can become. AI makes holding both more urgent.
The Counterweight Audit
Eight questions to test whether your workplace invites open challenge and dialogue. Find your counterweight condition in two minutes, free.
The Ten Leadership Patterns: A Working Glossary
A working reference to all ten patterns: how each one governs, what it does at its best, and where it begins to cast a shadow.
People by Design: Why Your AI Hiring Stack Needs A Future Forward People Architecture
Your AI hiring stack is either designed for your future or it's optimizing based your past. Discover how intentional people architecture shapes workforce strategy.
The Wear. The Tear. The Chasm.
A workforce strategist's field account of AI adoption without architecture: the governance gaps, the workslop crisis, and what organizations must design before it's too late.
career Advice for my 20 year old self. 7 Career Building Blocks
Career advice nobody handed you in your 20s. Seven building blocks for reading your workplace, growing your network, and designing a career with purpose.