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Strategic Insights for Modern Leaders

Frameworks for innovation, leadership, and sustainable growth in complex industries

Explore curated works offering analyses and perspectives for executives and product leaders. For deeper engagement, follow me on LinkedIn or explore latest publications.

Core Focus Areas

Jump directly to topics matching your challenges:

AI & Business Transformation

Leveraging emerging technology for competitive advantage

  • How AI Democratization Reshapes Strategy
    6 parallels between YouTube’s revolution and today’s AI landscape
  • Incorporating AI into Product Strategy
    Use ‘just enough’ AI to solve your problems

Corporate Innovation Systems

Building engines for sustainable growth in regulated markets

  • Innovation at Scale: Proving Ground Models
    Why internal ventures outperform accelerators in complex industries
  • Corporate Innovation is Not a Crash Diet
    Long-term focus yields long-term results

Leadership & Decision Science

Evidence-based approaches to high-stakes leadership

  • Ego Risk & Cognitive Biases
    Why 70% of innovation fails – and how to counter it
  • 5 Debunked Psychology Studies
    Lessons from replication crises in willpower and behavioral research
  • Open Master’s – Mindful Leadership
    The self-directed education program I designed to develop my own capacity to mitigate ego risk

Product Excellence

Tactical frameworks for PMs and cross-functional leaders

  • Developing Deep Product Empathy
    Moving beyond user stories to authentic need discovery
  • Product/PMO Partnership Models
    Marty Cagan-inspired strategies for agile empowerment

Foundational Works

Start with these essential frameworks

  • How to Set your Minimum Success Criteria
  • How to Pick a Customer Segment
  • The Ideal Profile of an Early Adopter
  • How to Write Good User Stories
  • How to Find Customers to Interview

Speaking Engagements

  • Interview w/ Agile Toolkit Podcast – Agile DC Executive Summit – 2017
  • Start Learning Efficiently Now – Lean & Agile DC – 2017 (slides)
  • Ego Risk: Why Innovation Fails – Modev MVPConf – 2015
  • Getting Started with Lean Startup – DC Lean Startup Circle – 2014
  • Lean Startup for Nonprofits – Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship – 2012
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