Twenty-five years leading large organizations in the Army, the intelligence community, and DoD. Now I run my own company on an AI operating layer I designed, and I take part-time consulting engagements helping other organizations do the same.
Get put into a complex, high-stakes system — often stuck, always changing. Find where the work actually breaks. Redesign how it moves, put the right people and tools behind it, and leave it running better than I found it. I've run that play inside a spy agency, a growing engineering firm, a nonprofit in leadership transition, and a business I built from zero.
Bottlenecks, broken handoffs, founder dependencies, and decision rights, redesigned so the business scales without adding headcount at the same rate.
Deciding what is worth automating, then building and running the tools, with clear rules for what data goes where.
Growth and transition planning, structure, leadership development, governance, and succession for organizations outgrowing their current shape.
At Ignite Performance & Health, these systems run clinical operations, client management, quality control, and marketing, built without a development team or an outside agency.
"Vision without execution is just hallucination."THE OPERATING THESIS
Ran the organizational-development analysis behind the firm's growth plan and joined its advisory board when the process ended.
Co-led the CEO selection and succession when the founders retired; rebuilt the long-range outlooks and bylaws.
A medically directed strength, nutrition, and hormone clinic in Chesterfield, Missouri. I run the whole business side and the systems it runs on.
As a 1099 or subcontracted consultant under your contract and client relationship. Remote, or on-site in the St. Louis region. For Firms & Recruiters →
A fixed-fee, three-to-four-week look at where a $5M–$20M company's capacity is leaking, and the order to fix it in. See what's included →