BEYOND THE SILO · SYSTEMS IN MOTION
A part-time Product Ops team I pitched and sponsored gave 30 teams one shared operating layer. No new hires, system lead time dropped by 15% within 6 months.
Products
Intelligent products help people and systems make better decisions. See the frameworks (coming soon)
Organizations
Teams and product organizations make better strategic and operational decisions when influence is distributed across peers, not commanded from one point — as when I led 15 teams across three domains as interim VP, my own with disciplinary responsibility, the others in a functional capacity, without any change to the formal org chart.
Urban Systems
Real-world systems such as mobility improve when the decisions running them get better — not just the technology.
SELECTED THINKING
ESSAY · BEYOND THE SILO
Part-time Product Ops: an MVP for organizational change
30 teams, 250+ epics in flight, everything urgent. How a team working at 20% rebuilt the operating layer of a product organization without new hires.
TALK · BEYOND THE SILO
Leading without formal power: three levers for deciding across teams
“If you wait for formal power, you'll never lead.” Three levers for leading across teams that don’t report to you.
ESSAY · BEYOND THE SILO
Female allyship: Changing who gets to shape what comes next
Individual support becomes structural change — one sentence, one room, one decision at a time.
ESSAY · BEYOND THE SILO
Decision quality in the age of AI
The occasion was an AI dinner. The real question was about decision quality — which skill erodes when speed becomes the only thing that matters.
COMING SOON · SYSTEMS IN MOTION
Ridepooling & the Economics of Shared Mobility
First piece in this series — in progress.
EDITORIAL SERIES
Systems in Motion.
Mobility, physical-digital systems, and where they're headed — a recurring look at how decisions play out in the real world."
FRAMEWORKS & TOOLS
Decision Proposals
A structured format for making decisions explicit and debatable.
Influencer Map
Leading across teams you don't formally manage.
Context & Assumption Map
Surfacing what a team believes before committing to delivery.
Product Ops Operating Model
Organizational leverage without adding headcount.