About

Curiosity has a funny way of changing the path.

I began my career as a hands-on engineer, fascinated by complex systems and the satisfaction of understanding how things work. What began in engineering gradually expanded into product, business and leadership, and today into leading complex technology environments at global scale.

Along the way, the questions became broader. Infrastructure led me into cybersecurity and cloud, emerging technology pulled me toward AI and quantum computing, and leadership made me increasingly interested in people, culture, behavior and the conditions that allow good ideas to become real.

My experiences with healthcare widened that lens again. Being a patient changed the way I think about information, uncertainty, resilience and the difference between what a system can measure and what a person may actually be experiencing. It also made me curious about what becomes possible when medicine, technology and a deeper understanding of the individual begin to intersect.

On paper, these interests can look rather unrelated. In my head, they rarely stay that way for long.

I believe that curiosity established an early foundation for me. I grew up in a house of big yeses, with parents who encouraged us to learn, explore and pursue bold dreams. My father's extraordinary love of books and my mother's instinct for solving problems shaped how I approach the world in different ways.

I might find myself connecting an idea from neuroscience to leadership, noticing a pattern in biology that resembles something in technology, or wondering how an emerging capability could change a healthcare journey. I enjoy the analytical work of understanding evidence and architecture, but I am equally drawn to imagination, stories and the possibilities that appear when different disciplines begin to overlap.

Working with my coach, Ron Kertzner, I have become more intentional about how I lead and make choices. Drawing on neuroscience, I have practiced small habits that help me build the capacity to respond with clarity and intention, especially in moments when it would be easier to react.

I also have a strong instinct to do something with an idea once it begins to show promise. Much of my professional career has been spent working with incredibly talented people on complicated problems, trying things, occasionally struggling, learning together and eventually creating something better than where we started.

Layers & Levers grew from that combination of curiosity and practice. It gives me a place to explore technology, health and transformation, learn from people whose expertise is different from mine, and follow ideas far enough to understand where there may be something useful to do with them.

Layers & Levers gives me a place to keep doing that across a much wider range of ideas, including the freedom to wander into a subject simply because it fascinates me and see what we might discover there.

For the more personal story behind why I write:
“Mommy, I See You as an Inventor.” →