The Human Edge
Leadership advisory for founders, executives, and organizations.
Leadership, organizational effectiveness, and people systems that drive performance.
Executive advisory · Organization design · Neuroscience-grounded
The founder
Neuroscientist by training. Operator by trade. Founder by choice.
I'm a founder, operator, and speaker who has spent the past 14 years at the intersection of neuroscience, organizational design, people strategy, and human performance. My life and career have been shaped by one question: what makes humans, human?
After a traumatic brain injury at 18, I spent years discovering, designing, and rebuilding my own mindset, habits, and behaviors. It left me with a perspective almost no one else brings: how the mind actually works, how we're wired, and how to rebuild both on purpose.
I went on to apply those principles to teams and organizations.
B.S. Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology, Emory University · MBA, Duke Fuqua School of Business · Ex-Dropbox, Instacart, CNN
Build high-performing teams and cultures where human potential drives success.
Why this work
And that turned out to be the point.
I've given up lifelong dreams. I've watched identities I spent decades building come apart in the snap of a finger. Each time, I had to decide whether to wait for the old version of myself to come back, or build a new one deliberately.
I chose to build. And in the rebuilding I found meaning, purpose, and impact, along with the mindset, behaviors, and habits that hold them up.
Now I'm sharing them, so other leaders and teams can build their own edge. Organizations are built, shaped, and reshaped. They adapt. Because real leaders build other leaders.
The Human Edge isn't born. It's built.
The path
1Emory · Neuroscience
2Instacart
3Dropbox · Design Ops
4CNN
5Duke · MBAThe invitation
For executives and growing organizations at the moments when leadership, structure, and culture all need to evolve together.
The science
Created. Built. Practiced.
Judgement, adaptability, and resilience behave like every other trainable capability. They're created deliberately, built through structured practice, and reinforced until they hold under pressure.
The methods come from neuroscience, behavioural science, and organizational design. The frameworks are the ones I've used to build teams and run operations at scale. This isn't coaching, and it isn't a personality test. It's a build.
The Edge, built
Capability compounds. It is built, not issued.
The Sprint
Six weeks to build your leadership operating system.
Turn your edge into systems that elevate how you lead, and scale as you do.
For founders, executives & operators
What you'll build
Clarify your leadership point of view, your strengths and risks, and the expectations attached to your role.
Strengthen how you communicate, make decisions, manage stakeholders, and create alignment.
Translate your leadership into team practices, operating rhythms, and a 90-day plan others can execute with you.
We all know what good leadership looks like.
Almost none of us are taught how to build our own version of it.
This is where you build yours.
Leadership with purpose, clarity, and conviction.
What changes
Hiring
Exactly who you're looking for, and who you're not.
Decisions
A filter that makes hard decisions quicker, with less second-guessing.
Leadership
A way of leading that's yours, not borrowed from someone else.
Conviction
You know what you stand for, and you can hold it under pressure.
Clarity
You can name what you're building and exactly why it matters.
Positioning
Words for what makes you irreplaceable, ready for pitches and partnerships.
Before we begin
Questions
It isn't advice or curriculum. It's a build. You leave with a permanent artifact, your Edge Blueprint, not a folder of notes you never open again.
It's grounded in neuroscience and performance science: real methods and frameworks, not personality quizzes or vibes. And it's built around you rather than a template you're asked to adopt.
The free content is the what. The Sprint is the how, applied to you, one to one, until it is actually built and yours.
If you have the results and want the meaning, the language, and the system underneath them, it's right. Send a note and we'll figure it out honestly.
Sixty minutes a week for six weeks, plus whatever depth you choose to go between sessions. The work between is yours.
Yes. Pay in full, or split into two payments. Both options are in the enrollment section above.
Advisory · Fractional leadership
Chief of Staff · Organizational effectiveness · People & culture
The ways I work with companies
Lead the company, instead of chasing it.
Extend your reach and get your priorities executed, so the work stops routing back through you.
Growth makes you stronger, not slower.
Design the structure your strategy actually requires. Not a new org chart, but an operating model that scales.
The organization can carry what you're building.
Build the people systems that turn a fast-growing headcount into a team that performs.
What I bring
I've built and run the systems fast-growing companies depend on.
You get that experience now, before you need a full exec team.
No search, no ramp, no permanent line on the payroll.
The math
Let's collaborate
One conversation tells us both if this is the right work, right fit.
The Collective
A private, global membership for founders, executives, and operators who treat leadership as a performance discipline.
Founding cohort. Limited spots.
Global · Membership · By application
What's inside
01
The peers who get it, across cities and time zones. In the room, not on a feed.
02
Dinners, salons, and roundtables that travel, plus online sessions. No panels, no performance.
03
Prototype the future of work together, in participatory sprints.
04
First to the thinking, the tools, and each other.
Ready to join?
Founding rates are locked for life. The rate rises as the room fills.
Membership is by application. Most members expense it through their L&D or professional-development budget.
For organizations & institutions
The Collective works with organizations who take human capability seriously, and treat it as something you build, not something you hire for. Three ways in, depending on what you're after.
01
Seats for a cohort of your leaders, inside the same room as founders and operators from outside your walls. Most companies fund it through L&D.
02
Underwrite the dinners, salons, and roundtables. Your name in front of senior operators who are hard to reach any other way. Aligned brands only, no logos on lanyards.
03
Build it with me. For enterprises and institutions who want to shape how the Collective grows, from the Labs agenda to the cities it lands in next.
Speaking · Keynotes & Workshops
Founder, operator, neuroscientist.
I speak on
Why people book me
Rebuilding a life, an identity, and a career after a brain injury. It taught me how the mind actually works.
How we think, behave, connect, and decide, from the inside out.
I've spent the years since applying that inside organizations: to build teams, shape culture, and design the practices that make companies work.
Beyond the keynotes, I also speak to
The signature talks
Each one turns a human quality into something you can actually build.
Soft skills, hard results.
The human layer AI can't replace.
What a brain injury at 18 taught me about what actually matters.
The science of building back after setbacks.
Bring it to your stage
Speaking fees are tailored to the event, format, and audience. Tell me what you're planning and I'll put together a quote.