Water was my entry point. People are my passion. The Sustainable Development Goals are the bridge — but the real work is making sure communities have the power to shape their own future.
Because water isn’t just a resource. It’s the master volume knob for the whole system. Turn it up or down and everything shifts — health, food, energy, equity, resilience. You can hear it in the floods and the droughts, the poisoned rivers and the empty wells. Water is how most of us feel the stress of the climate crisis in our daily lives.
And yet the way we live and govern works against us. We carve the world into silos. Agencies hoard data. Institutions guard turf. Stakeholders dig in on interests. The very things we need to solve this crisis — trust, creativity, accountability — are scattered.
Here’s what I believe: our future hinges on people. On whether we can sit at the same table long enough to argue, laugh, disagree, and still decide together. On whether we can back those with the most at stake. On whether we can bring science and grit and imagination to bear — not someday, but now.
Because clean water isn’t optional. It’s survival.
I co-founded C4C to do what institutions often can’t: make the invisible visible. We map networks, find the brokers and blind spots, and help coalitions act faster and smarter. It’s strategy, facilitation, and storytelling rolled into one — because big goals only get met when people can actually see how they connect.
WATER FOR TOMORROW
Sometimes the best way to break through gridlock is to change the game — literally. Water for Tomorrow uses play to spark serious conversations about shared water futures. Around a table, stakeholders step into each other’s shoes, confront tough scenarios, and walk away with a little more empathy — and a lot more clarity about what it takes to work together.
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
For nearly three decades I worked in rivers, forests, and boardrooms — leading basin programs, helping remove dams, and rewriting water law. I also built tools like the Sustainable Yield Estimator and the Water Intelligence Platform, and created new ways to communicate, like Water for Tomorrow, a board game that helps stakeholders step into each other’s shoes. Beyond the tech and the games, it was about people: convening coalitions like the Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership, bringing unlikely allies together around shared agendas. Different projects, same mission — make collaboration possible where it matters most.
CEO WATER MANDATE
At the Mandate, I moved from local watersheds to global networks, working through the lens of corporate water stewardship. I helped broker institutional partnerships, build dashboards that cut through financial fog, and convene coalitions that could hold together past the press release. I also worked on the tools that make collaboration stick — from finance trackers to partnership playbooks — always with one aim: turning lofty commitments into outcomes people can feel. Different scale, same mission — make collaboration possible where it matters most.
Plans don’t work if people don’t. My work is helping coalitions stay in the room long enough to argue, disagree, laugh, and still make decisions that matter.
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If you’re building something — a partnership, a plan, a platform — and you need someone to bring clarity, strategy, and a little conviction to the process, I’d like to hear from you.