The skill that’s mattered most is reading unspoken dynamics in a room – sensing tension, hesitation, or politics that never gets said out loud, but
My key learning from Covid was that resilience isn’t primarily a financial metric – it’s a governance one. The companies that navigated the crisis well
What has the biggest impact on culture is what leadership tolerates, not what it announces in a values statement. Employees don’t calibrate their behavior off
Imagine every big company has outside advisors whose job is to make sure the people running it are being honest, careful, and fair – with
On the surface, clients are buying board oversight, risk expertise, and regulatory fluency. But what they’re really buying is confidence – the ability to sleep
My best hack is separating preparation time from meeting time completely – I never try to think deeply during a call. All board reading, analysis,
During my bachelor’s degree, I ran a small DVD rental business on the side – buying and renting out movies. It was tiny and informal,
Building my profile – the advisory roles, the books, the podcast, the credentials – isn’t vanity work; it’s what opens the door before a conversation
When things feel hopeless, I go back to documentation – I open my own tracking notes across board mandates and reread how a past situation
My perfect working environment is quiet, unstructured time in the mornings, before calls and obligations take over – reading, writing, and thinking clearly, without interruption.
