About Me

I help leaders diagnose reality before strategy begins. Distortion Theory™ is the framework I developed to understand communication as evidence of the forces shaping people, organizations, and culture.

I've always been more interested in the realities communication reflects than in the messages themselves. I study what communication reveals before anyone decides what to say next.

For more than two decades, I have worked at the intersection of communication, perception, influence, and conflict in environments where communication failures carry real consequences.

My background spans congressional communications, bipartisan leadership, national media strategy, crisis communication, international media, organizational advisory, and corporate reputation during high-stakes transitions. As a Strategic Director and national spokesperson in Congress, I worked inside politically charged environments where messaging shaped public perception and influenced national conversations. Working across the aisle in a bipartisan caucus gave me a rare view into how competing narratives form, harden, and eventually fracture trust.

In the corporate sector, I led communications strategy during major acquisition periods where reputation, trust, and perception directly affected organizational stability. Early in my career, international media work exposed me to how closely journalism, political messaging, public relations, and narrative management operate behind the scenes long before the public ever sees the final story.

Across every environment, I kept seeing the same pattern: what is said, what is meant, and what is true are often not the same.

In media, that fracture creates narratives, distorting public perception. In leadership, it compromises judgment and weakens alignment. In relationships, it destabilizes trust and emotional safety. Different arenas. Same fracture.

That pattern became impossible for me to ignore and ultimately became the foundation for Distortion Theory™ and the assessment process I now use to diagnose communication crises at their source.

I do not work at the surface level of conflict or messaging alone. I identify where reality separated from the narrative, expose the distortion beneath the visible problem, and diagnose what is actually driving the divide.

The visible conflict is rarely the real crisis, resulting in a lot of energy being spent trying to fix the wrong problem.

What drives me is simple: most people do not need more noise, more strategy, more performance, more blame. They need the courage to face what is true, and someone willing to make that truth impossible to ignore.