High-touch collaboration with creative, strategic, and C-suite stakeholders. In plain English, my partners tap me to cut through complexity: in their story, their identity, their message, their materials. If they can’t make key ideas and narratives “click” to themselves first, there’s little chance of them resonating with anyone else — whether it’s customers, collaborators, partners, or funders.
Pivotal Ventures
Smithsonian Institution
Dispute Resolution Research Center, Northwestern University
The Royal Society
HHMI
Howden US
Spherical
The American Chemical Society
Springer Nature
John Pavlus was introduced to me years ago as “the guy who can make sense of anything.”
— Colleen Ryan, Chief Communications & Marketing Officer, Howden US
These engagements often serve as foundations (or course-corrections) for traditional marketing, research, or outreach work. Here’s what some of them looked like:
commissioning an in-depth “internal magazine profile” to inform the launch of a new brand identity
embedding me into a months-long process of designing a new narrative for fighting climate change
convening (and distilling the outputs of) a cross-disciplinary research workshop for a national museum exhibit