I’ve spent my career working at the intersection of naval operations, intelligence, organizational learning, and human judgment. My experience ranges from hands-on work in the Navy to leading analytic transformation efforts inside the Defense Intelligence Agency. I created and led the DIA Knowledge Lab, a small but influential initiative that helped the organization learn differently, collaborate across boundaries, and develop new ways of understanding emerging threats.

My academic work as a Ph.D. in management complements that experience. I study how people gain insight, how they reason under ambiguity, how technical professionals navigate the shift into leadership, and how decision-makers absorb and make sense of incoming information. I’ve also examined how different communities—scientists, analysts, policymakers, operators—bring their own ways of knowing to complex problems, and what it takes to translate among them.

Across all of this, a simple theme runs through my work:

thinking well is a practice, not an accident.

I help people and organizations develop that practice.