I have followed a winding path of career and educational experience that gives me an atypical worldview. Formal training both for business and as an historian provides divergent approaches and perspectives: too commercial for academia; too intellectual for business. Add to that, extended informal research and (self-)education in fields as diverse as behavioural and social psychology, and Chaos and Complexity sciences. What you end up with is a broadly-informed consideration that generates unique perspectives on and solutions to challenges from the mundane to the intractable.
I have been innovating for 25-years in industries as diverse as software development, investment management, online travel, and postal services. I've filed four patents. Ahead of the curve, I've developed both a ski lift/gate control and a golf course track and distancing system. In finanacial services, my positioning of a niche mutual fund company as a "micro-fund" was instrumental in securing the fastest growth in assets under management at the time. Currently I'm helping lead Canada's postal service further into online and mobile services.
I have experience in small and large business, public sector, not-for-profit, and academic environments. As a private consultant, employee, volunteer, and board member, I make practical the ideas and insights gathered from many disciplines, from many places and influential people, and from over a lifetime.
