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About Me
A project can have the perfect plans, budget, and schedule and still go sideways because two people couldn't agree.
How I Got Here
My career hasn't followed a perfectly straight line. I've worked in business, built things, managed complex construction projects, led teams, negotiated with clients and subcontractors, and found myself in plenty of situations where the outcome depended on more than simply knowing what to do.
It depended on people.
How they think.
What they want.
What motivates them.
How they respond under pressure.
And, perhaps most importantly, how you communicate with them.
Over the years, I became increasingly fascinated by that side of business and life.
What I do
You can have the right answer and still fail to convince someone.
You can have a great idea and still fail to get people behind it.
You can be technically right and still make the situation worse.
And you can have the right strategy but execute it poorly because you didn't understand the people involved.
The more I studied human behavior and communication, the more I realized that successful outcomes are rarely just about information.
They're about understanding people.
They're about knowing how to communicate so someone can actually hear.
They're about understanding what matters to the other person.
And they're about knowing how to move a situation forward when the obvious approach isn't working.
Outside of Work
I'm a husband to my beautiful wife Angela, a dad to three boys and a guy who is usually trying to learn something new.
I enjoy traveling, working on new ideas, staying active, and going down the occasional rabbit hole when something catches my interest.
I'm naturally curious, which is probably why I've never been very good at accepting, "That's just the way it's done."
I like figuring out why things work - and whether they could work better.
That curiosity is probably the biggest thread running through everything I do.
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