Unlocking Awe

Transforming Work and Learning

I make people say, “Wait! I never thought about it that way before.”

I assemble scattered information so that it suddenly clicks into place: that moment when diffuse data points suddenly reorganize itself into something clear, something useful, something that changes how you approach the entire problem.

I’ve done this across archives in three countries, research programs during political chaos, undergraduate classrooms where students arrive with completely different frameworks. The work isn’t forcing people to agree—it’s building systems flexible enough that reality doesn’t immediately break them.

What I Deliver

Leading Complex Initiatives

I take ambitious projects spanning multiple teams and competing priorities, then design the systems that make them actually happen. Not by imposing rigid structure, but by understanding how things really work—the informal networks, the cultural nuances, the constraints nobody mentions in the first meeting.

This means building flexible frameworks that survive contact with reality: when budgets shift, politics change, stakeholders disagree, nobody has enough time.

Connecting Across Boundaries

I look at silos—different departments, disciplines, cultures, languages—and design the flows that let knowledge move between them. I’ve done this across archives in three countries, research institutions with competing mandates, and undergraduate classrooms where students arrive with wildly different frameworks.

The work isn’t forcing alignment. It’s finding the underlying patterns that let different perspectives strengthen rather than cancel each other out.

Building Knowledge That Lasts

I take scattered expertise—the insights buried in people’s heads, the lessons from past projects, the patterns only veterans can see—and structure it so it becomes organizational capacity instead of institutional memory loss.

This means creating frameworks that guide without constraining, documentation that people actually use, systems that make vital knowledge accessible exactly when someone needs it.