Background & Experience

My work spans defense, federal government, corporate strategy, civic institutions, and academia—giving me a distinctive vantage point on how power and governance are evolving.

For the past decade, I’ve led Prescient, my strategic foresight advisory practice, working with corporations, foundations, government agencies, and research institutions. I also created the Foresight Sandbox, an executive education program that trains leadership teams in strategic foresight methods—which I later developed as the Foresight Accelerator during my time at Deloitte.

Until recently, I was a Senior Manager at Deloitte, where I served as Strategic Foresight Lead for the Government & Public Services practice and co-led the firm’s counter foreign malign influence work. Before that, I taught at Georgetown University’s Communication, Culture & Technology program for six years, developing and teaching graduate courses on strategic foresight methods and emerging technology’s impact on the human body.

Earlier in my career, I served as the Department of Defense’s first Chair of Information Integration at the U.S. National War College. In that role, I designed and launched the institution’s first academic concentration in Information Operations, developing interdisciplinary courses to equip senior military and civilian leaders with strategic tools for operating in digitally rich environments. I led a flagship speaker series featuring prominent voices on information power, advancing institutional thinking on the role of information, influence operations, and social technologies in national and global competition.

I also served as CEO and President of the World Future Society, where I led a comprehensive organizational turnaround. I increased net profit by 3000% in the first fiscal year, reduced costs by 31%, and improved total equity by nearly 40%. I restructured operations, revitalized the organization’s reputation, and transformed its annual conference—increasing attendance by 20% and revenue by 50% while attracting younger, more strategically oriented participants.

I’m currently writing a book titled The End of Government, which examines how the forces of marketization and digitalization have decisively shifted governing power beyond the federal government. The book explores the paradox of a government expected to be accountable for social welfare and public security without the capacity to enforce it—and where we go from here.

My first book, Strategic Narrative: A Framework for Accelerating Innovation, explored how organizations can use narrative as a strategic tool to navigate complexity and drive change.