Serious about play.
I'm a fractional Chief Play Officer, workshop designer, speaker, and peer coach. Based in Sydney. Yes, "Chief Play Officer" is a real title. No, I didn't invent it because "Founder" sounded too serious. (I mean, I kind of did.)
My career has never fit neatly on a LinkedIn headline, and that's on purpose. I started as a classroom teacher in inner-city Atlanta, then became the technology specialist for an entire middle school: managing every computer in the building, fixing them, breaking them, fixing them again (certified tech nerd), and teaching teachers how to bring technology into their classrooms.
From there I spent twenty-five years at the intersection of people, learning, philanthropy, and technology. I was Salesforce Foundation's VP of All Things Fun, Meaningful, and Rewarding, helping shape the early 1/1/1 model (the little idea that grew up to become Pledge 1%) and building a youth entrepreneurship program. I ran Workday Foundation as its first Executive Director and led a startup program inside Telstra for their corporate startup accelerator muru-D. I helped launch Coralus (formerly SheEO) in the US and Australia, getting capital to women and non-binary founders who kept getting told no. These days I'm also a peer coach with Forumspace, working with YPO Key Associates.
Across all of it, I do the same thing: listen hard, connect dots other people are too busy to notice, and get people collaborating instead of talking past each other.
Play is my methodology.
Applied Improvisation is my toolkit.
I'm dead serious about both, even when I'm holding a wand.
If your team is stuck on the human stuff: congratulations, you found your person.
