About
I have fifteen years of experience in advisory and investing, as an entrepreneur and institutional investor across private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund investing. Now I’m a PhD student at Harvard Business School, researching how organizations allocate attention and find direction.
One question connects this work: how can human and artificial intelligence help us see what matters, rather than just process more information faster?
I write about these questions and teach yoga at the Harvard Business School gym. I also advise organizations on intelligence transformation: the fundamental change in how companies think when AI can take on cognitive work.
Yoga gives me a way to practice the questions I study academically. How do you pay attention? How do you stay present when things get uncomfortable? How do you distinguish what you can control from what you cannot? Strategy work asks these questions at the scale of an organization.
Third Enlightenment
The Third Enlightenment framework connects awareness, the First Enlightenment, with agency, the Second. The Third integrates both.
Read the full frameworkWhat I Do
My research examines how organizations allocate attention and find strategic direction. I study how resources can hide decay, how organizations find the right direction when the path is unclear, and what precedes search: declaring what matters shapes what becomes findable.
My advising work asks what changes when any organization can access cognitive capacity that was once scarce and expensive. I call this intelligence transformation: a structural shift in how companies think when AI can take on cognitive work.
I’m working on three problems: how organizations should structure intelligence so it strengthens judgment rather than replacing it; how executives can find a clear direction when their industry changes faster than their planning cycles; and how organizations can build systems that capture what they know.
Executive Coaching
I also offer executive coaching. We start with one conversation to see if we’re a fit. If we are, twelve sessions spread across your lifetime — the first six to eight do the primary work; the remaining sessions are banked for transitions, crises, or questions that need outside perspective.
Background
My undergraduate studies at Wharton and in Penn’s Management & Technology (M&T) program combined management and computer science. As an entrepreneur and institutional investor across private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund investing, I learned how professional investors think: their frameworks, their blind spots, and the ways capital shapes what gets attention and what doesn’t.
I’m now a PhD student at Harvard Business School, but I still teach yoga three mornings a week at the HBS gym. My newsletter explores questions that don’t fit neatly into “tech” or “wellness.” What does self-knowledge look like when AI can analyze us better than we can analyze ourselves?
The questions connect. We're in the Third Enlightenment now — writing and print let us externalize memory, digital systems let us externalize computation, and artificial intelligence lets us externalize cognition itself.