Twenty years of showing up when things go to hell
And, occasionally, before.
I get projects and ideas to yes.
Then I make the next yes easier.
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, county boards, legislatures, Cabinet agencies, neighbors with a lawyer. Other times? It means creating, packaging and promoting the case before we get to the room where the decision is made. I also build AI systems that solve problems in policy, government and the public square.
The Interstate 15 rebuild in Salt Lake City. I ran the public side. The owner tied a seven-figure bonus to community approval; we collected every dollar.
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.