Surface what's hidden Align what matters Shift what's stuck

For over twenty years, I've helped organizations surface hidden patterns, align on what matters, and shift what's stuck. I've worked with large corporates, scrappy startups, government agencies, and nonprofits, each teaching me something new about the art of facilitation and the mechanics of real change.

Innovation Capability, Not Just Innovation Theater

In 2019 I joined the founding network of SwarmVision, an innovation capability platform built by Suzan Briganti. As lead trainer, I coached facilitators and delivered enterprise engagements for organizations including NASA and the US Navy.

That hands-on assessment work taught me something important: innovation isn't a personality trait or a brainstorm exercise. It's a measurable capability that can be developed when you know where to look.

More recently, I've been studying how innovation doesn't just depend on individual capability. It flows through relationships, trust, and communication patterns across an organization. My training in Organizational Network Analysis lets me map those hidden dynamics, surfacing where ideas move freely and where they get stuck. I'm committed to the idea that lasting change happens through networks, not org charts.

I also do private coaching with individual leaders, drawing on years of study in the Enneagram under master coaches Russ Hudson, Clarence Thomson, and Mario Sikora. While I work with tools like DiSC and StrengthsFinder, the Enneagram remains my preferred framework because it doesn't just name a type. It maps growth vectors, showing where each leader can develop toward higher performance and maturity. It's assessment with a built-in trajectory.

From Facilitation to AI-Augmented Strategy

I'm also an ExO-certified coach, part of the Exponential Organizations movement. That certification sharpened my lens on exponential technologies and how organizations can leverage abundance instead of managing scarcity.

I write regularly for Innovation Leader as their AI beat reporter, covering how enterprises are actually adopting generative AI, what CEOs are saying about it, and where the real opportunities are emerging across industries from defense to supply chain to financial services. Writing forces clarity, and staying close to how large organizations navigate AI keeps my own practice grounded in what's real rather than what's hype.

Today, I'm co-founding Jedi On The Fly with my partner Hamid Ennachat. Jedi On The Fly is the evolution of everything I've learned about facilitation, innovation assessment, and strategic pattern recognition, now augmented by AI tools that can scale the work beyond what any single facilitator could do alone. The vision is simple: pull, not push. Create tools so useful that organizations reach for them naturally.

I'm based in Florida but work with clients globally. Every engagement is an opportunity to learn something new about what's possible when you approach challenges with both rigor and imagination.

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