A selection of what I've written over the years — operator playbooks, partnership craft and the discipline behind the decisions. Each one is here in full.
The Government of Alberta published 235 pages on its AI rebuild. The lessons that matter aren't the technical ones — and they're easier for a small company than they were for a government.
Intelligence is becoming infrastructure, and infrastructure doesn't differentiate — you can't rent a moat. The scarce asset is organizational intelligence: captured decisions, not just data.
Your AI initiative isn't failing because the technology isn't ready — it's failing because the organization isn't. I've seen this movie before: same meetings, same fears, same decks. Different decade.
The hardest leadership challenge of my life wasn't in a boardroom. It was my father's dementia — and the lessons were unmistakably professional.
80 days of my life in one tool. What daily discipline taught me about data intimacy, consistency and a personal north star.
Taking over a 120-person agency in decline. The 100-day turnaround playbook — alignment, talent, data transparency — I've used ever since.
"Plan the divorce before the marriage." Four rules — and the FILO discipline — behind partnerships that actually create value.
$90M → $556M in digital revenue. $1B+ in partner deals. 16 M&As. A career measured the way I measure everything.
I put my AI assistant on the org chart in 2016. Whether to say "please" to a machine taught me more about myself than about the bot — an early signal of where this was all going.