I’m an award-winning author, speaker, and CEO advisor who guides companies, teams, and product leaders in leveraging creative thinking to elevate their organizations, conquer their markets, and maintain relevance in a fast-changing world. Organizations like Oracle, Starbucks, and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers have turned to me to ignite creativity across their workforce and empower everyone, regardless of role or level, to identify novel solutions and think expansively. My book, "Creative Velocity," released in May 2025. My career has taken me on a 25+ year journey, from a successful career in the film industry in Los Angeles as a member of the Directors Guild of America to iconic brands, such as Amazon, Best Buy, Discovery, T-Mobile, and Apple. I’ve built teams from the ground up and led multiple first-to-market products; I was on the front end of the earliest digital media subscription services from major content brands like Major League Baseball, NASCAR, CNN, and ABCNews and co-authored a patent currently held by Intel. I’ve led internal innovation labs and am an IDEO-trained leader in Design Thinking. As an advisor to startups and enterprises, I’ve coached teams to break through barriers to innovation and serve the sweet spot that lives at the intersection of customer and business value. Throughout my journey, one truth has remained constant: winning organizations encourage human creativity to flourish, embrace change without fear, and view failure as a stepping stone to success. In this age of GenAI, the companies that continue to thrive and win customer loyalty understand how to co-create with AI, and dare to explore unconventional ideas to think big. I have educated product leaders and executives through The Product Guild, the University of Michigan College of Engineering's Center for Entrepreneurship, and as a guest lecturer at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. I also co-created and currently serve as the Lead Executive in Residence in the Product Management Leadership Accelerator, part of the Foster School's Executive Education program. I am a member of the Board of Advisors, and Adjunct Faculty at Regis College's Marshall Sloane School of Business in Product Management and Service Design, and West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media. I currently sit on the board of Modwell.io, an innovative start-up at the intersection of spatial computing and real estate that was selected to join Nvidia’s startup accelerator, Inception.