Work

For much of my life, work was easy to define. It was how I supported myself. How I supported my family. How I measured progress. How I challenged myself. Like many people, I spent years focused on the next opportunity, the next project, the next promotion, the next business venture, or the next chapter in my career. What I didn’t fully appreciate at the time was that work was teaching me much more than how to earn a living.

It was teaching me about people. About leadership. About risk. About communication.About failure.About reinvention.And perhaps most importantly, about myself.

Over the years, I have worked in a variety of industries including international business, sports marketing, licensing, entrepreneurship, internet marketing, healthcare, insurance, and business development. My career took me across the United States and overseas, including several years living and working in Japan and Hong Kong.

On paper, those experiences may appear to be very different. Looking back, I see a common thread.I was always drawn to opportunities that involved building something, improving something, connecting people, solving problems, or helping organizations grow. Some of those efforts were successful. Some were not.Most taught me lessons I could not have learned any other way.

As I have grown older, my view of work has changed. I no longer see a career as a straight line leading toward a destination.I see it as a collection of chapters, each contributing something valuable to the next. Some chapters taught me skills. Some taught me resilience. Some taught me humility. Some introduced me to people who changed my life.

This section is not intended to be a résumé. It is an exploration of the experiences, lessons, decisions, successes, failures, and turning points that shaped my professional journey and influenced my understanding of purpose. Because in the end, work is only part of the story. The more interesting question is what the work taught us while we were doing it.

Within this section you’ll find stories from different stages of my career, reflections on leadership and business, lessons learned from successes and setbacks, and observations gathered from a lifetime spent navigating an ever-changing professional world.

The jobs may have changed. The industries may have changed. The countries may have changed. The search for meaningful work never did.