The Strategic Communicator Every Org Needs — and Algorithms Can’t Classify
The problem is where the résumé meets the algorithms. Recruiters have a word for comms people like me. To them, I am a “cross-functional generalist who wears many hats.” Or something to that effect. Versatility is just a hard-learned requirement of the internal and external strategic communications job.
Every Flight Needs a Tower: The Highest-ROI Structure Change You Haven't Made Yet
The easiest organizations to fix are the broken ones. The harder problem — and the more common one in mission-driven public sector work — is the organization where everything is actually pretty good. Every instrument is reading normal. And yet the flight is just slightly off course and hitting pockets of turbulence along the way.
Government Made Me a Better Reputation Manager Than Any Corporate Job Could Have
Government is where reputation management is learned at its hardest setting. Not "hard" like a product launch that got bad reviews. Hard like: your audience already hates you before you've said a word, your budget was cut three years ago, and the policy you're defending wasn't your idea.
Paris Saturday, Cubicle Monday: An Unexpected Master Class
Prior to turning 30, I started an event production company rooted in punk and alternative culture. Not because it was a calculated career move, but because it was the opposite of one — a creative outlet that had absolutely nothing to do with government policy or interagency coordination, and that was the point.