I’VE SPENT MY LIFE
PAYING ATTENTION.

To people. To what they say. To what they don’t.
To the choices they make, the places they inhabit, and the things most of us walk right past.

That attention has shaped nearly everything I’ve done.

I’VE NEVER BEEN VERY GOOD AT STAYING IN ONE LANE.

I’ve spent more than 20 years in business, leadership and the home furnishings industry. I’ve started and sold two businesses and led companies.

I’ve coached and mentored executives, consulted with businesses and their leaders, spoken on stages, and spent a lot of time in rooms where difficult decisions get made.

Somewhere along the way, I also became an interviewer and a photographer.

On paper, those things might not have much in common. To me, they have everything in common.

I’m curious about people.

Actually, curious may be the polite word for it. I’m nosy.

I want to know what makes people tick. What they’ve learned. What they notice. What they carry with them. Why they made that choice. And how the places we move through shape us, while we leave our own marks behind.

That curiosity, nosiness, whatever you want to call it, runs through my leadership work, What She Knows Now, and the photographs I make.

Different mediums. Same instinct. Pay attention.

I TAKE THE WORK SERIOUSLY. MYSELF, NOT SO MUCH.

A few things you should probably know….

  • I want to know things. Why someone made that choice. What happened next. What’s behind that door. What someone really thinks. Curiosity has gotten me into conversations, places, photographs, and probably a few situations I had no business being in. I prefer “curious.” Other people may have a different word for it.escription text goes here

  • Photography. I came to it later in life and fell hard. I carry a camera, study photographers, make pictures, buy photo books, and think about photographs far more than is probably reasonable.

  • For years, I bought business books constantly. Strategy, leadership, process, culture, you name it. Now that same compulsion has apparently transferred to photography books. I don't seem to have a casual setting.

  • I’ve spent years speaking on stages and leading rooms. I still get nervous before I speak. Every time. I’ve just learned that being nervous and being good at something can exist at the same time.

  • Give me a messy business process and I immediately want to pull it apart. Most businesses make things far more complicated than they need to be. I can talk about this for an unreasonable amount of time. Consider yourself warned.

  • I can speak to a room full of people. Start and sell businesses. Lead teams. Travel halfway around the world. Hand me a dance floor and apparently we’ve found my limit.

  • There’s a showroom at High Point Market with fake cocktails. For some reason, I cannot encounter one without posing with it. There are now enough photographs to establish that this is not an isolated incident.

STILL CURIOUS?

GOOD. ME TOO.

If something here made you think, made you curious, or made you want to have a conversation, say hello.

SAY HELLO