Speaking & teaching.

A 35-minute talk for founder gatherings and operator off-sites on naming the thing you're actually deciding — and the cost of refusing to.

The talk works best for groups in transition — companies between chapters, fellowships at the start of a year, summits whose audience has heard every version of the conventional advice.

— Sample talking points

1. The cleverness tax: why correct frames are not decisions.
2. The three signs you're in the wrong strategic conversation.
3. What it costs to be legibly ambitious — and what it costs not to be.
4. A working theory of private work: the parts of an inflection point no one wants to write about.

— Ideal contexts

• Founder summits
• Operator off-sites
• Fellowship kickoffs
• Editorial summits
• Industry gatherings

A half-day for early-stage founders on capital fluency: what your investors actually mean, what you're actually optimizing for, and how to stop translating yourself into someone else's language.

Workshops are working sessions, not lectures. Founders come with a real document — a term sheet, a board deck, a forecast — and we read it together as a text.

— Sample talking points

1. Reading a term sheet as a character study.
2. What "optionality" actually costs.
3. The grammar of a good board update.
4. How to ask for what you actually want, in capital terms.

— Ideal contexts

• Founder fellowships
• Accelerator cohorts
• Operator collectives
• Family office programs

An on-stage conversation for ecosystem events and editorial summits — built around a small set of real questions, not a sponsor's talking points.

I'll send three questions I'd actually like to be asked, in advance. The moderator picks what they want from the list — and adds their own.

— Sample talking points

1. What changing your mind in public actually costs.
2. The difference between being early and being out of season.
3. Power without a title.
4. Reading the room, when the room is wrong.

— Ideal contexts

• Editorial summits
• Ecosystem events
• University programs
• On-record podcasts & tapings

Small-cohort sessions for graduate programs, fellowships, and operator communities on identity, vocation, and the long arc of a working life. Built bespoke each time.

These are the engagements I prepare for the longest. A teaching slot is a relationship with a small group; I don't repeat them, and I don't pre-package them.

— Sample talking points

1. Ambition as a vocational question, not a productivity one.
2. The cost of a legible career.
3. What good operators do in the days no one is watching.
4. Notes on changing your mind in public.

— Ideal contexts

• Graduate programs
• Fellowships
• Cohort-based courses
• Editorial workshops