Thirty years of showing up when things go to hell.
Sometimes before.
I get projects and ideas to yes.
I get sent in when a project, a policy or an idea needs a yes from people who don’t owe it one. Think: utility commissions, elected boards, legislatures, Cabinet agencies. Sometimes it’s neighbors with a lawyer.
Other times the job is upstream of the room: building the case, policy or bill before anyone has to vote on it. And lately it’s building the systems that do the research and the planning, because the meeting won’t wait.
The people who call don’t need a deck or a vision statement. They need a yes, or a no killed early.
A hand in getting to yes on the roads people drive, the water they drink and a lot in between. The I-15 rebuild in Salt Lake City was the loud one.
Public persuasion
Hearing rooms, newsrooms and microphones. Public relations, community wrangling and crisis work for things people didn’t want next door, from water systems to a billion-dollar freeway. Clients in and out of government. Candidate and issue races with more wins than losses.
Years developing and advancing ideas that matter, from Cabinet secretaries’ offices to city halls.
Public policy
A good message isn’t enough. You have to help make the rules. From rolling out education savings accounts and major privatization initiatives to backing business associations and starting a think tank for America’s cities, I’ve built ideas that get noticed—and turned into law.
Data points in one statewide waste, fraud and abuse screen covering more than 1,200 school districts, delivered to a state fiscal office.
Applied AI
As much builder as advisor. Rarer than it should be. I design systems that research, verify and plan public policies and the campaigns behind them. And when the design is done? I stay for the part where it has to work.
Advisory·Contract projects·Leadership engagements
If you need to get to yes, call.