Pragmatic Magic

Most of my adult life, my working life, I’ve been a career heretic. Meaning, I question a lot of long-held truths about the “ways things work” when it comes to being a professional. Like wearing suits, or adhering to a strict 8-to-5, or creating divisions between personal and professional lives. What does that even mean? It should be one life, in my estimation. Those are all little rebellions, and I’ve not gone to the mat for them, at least in any public way, and I’m not unique for the way I’ve behaved, though I may have been more vocal about it than others. Like my fear of spreadsheets and budgets. People know my resistance is legendary, mainly due to math trauma. It’s real. IYKYN.

So, what do I do? Who am I in the world of work?

Professionally, I am a creative strategist, writer, and producer who specializes in transformational storytelling for resource development and I’ve focused my career in the arts, primarily theatre and media. My super-powers include co-building space for creative people to tell their stories, conflict management, and community building. I use human systems processes, improvisational theater forms, change management, and good old-fashioned relationship building to find stories and get them out into the world all while raising resources to support them and the organizations they grow within.