// WHO I AM AND WHY I SEE THIS DIFFERENTLY
I spent 20 years inside the systems I now write about.
Available for commentary, interviews and contributed writing.
I started in HR. I sat in the rooms where hiring decisions were made, where performance reviews were shaped, where layoffs were planned and then carefully reworded before anyone outside the building heard about them. I saw the gap between how organizations describe their decisions and how those decisions actually get made.
I watched people get passed over for reasons that had nothing to do with their performance. I watched advice that works well for some people fail completely for others — not because of effort or mindset, but because of how the system was built and who it was built for. That gap is what I write about.
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// areas of focusI Write and Speak About
01
How corporate really works
Most hiring decisions aren't made the way the job posting implies. I break down the incentives, risk calculations, and informal dynamics that actually determine who gets in.
02
When the advice breaks down
Network more.' 'Be authentic.' 'Show your value.' This advice works — for some people, in some systems. I explain when it breaks down and who it was never designed to help.
03
Understanding career outcomes
If you didn't get the job, the promotion, or the outcome you earned, it probably wasn't just you. I give people a framework for separating what they control from what the system was never going to give them.
//On Air and in printSpeaking and Commentary
I say the quiet part out loud. If you need someone who can explain — on air, online, or in the room — why the most qualified candidate didn't get the job, why return-to-office mandates are about control, or why common career advice fails the people who need it most, that's the conversation I'm built for.
// Why hiring decisions don't follow the rules
// Who career advice was actually written for
// What power looks like in modern organizations