What are your greatest strengths?

📣 Compelling Storytelling
I motivate and inspire teams by finding “the why” that connects to their emotions and sensibilities. I eagerly listen to others to learn about their desires, needs, and motivations and weave those truths into narratives that resonate with and reflect their lived experiences.

🧩 Relentless Problem Solving
I love a challenge and thrive within the freedom of ambiguity. I am a jack of all trades and will learn new skills, talk to new people and explore new ideas in order to gain perspectives and find creative solutions to daunting problems.

🦸 Identifying Superpowers
I have a strong intuition for seeing where people’s biggest strengths lie, communicating that observation back to the individual, and providing opportunities for them to leverage those skills.

✅ Getting the Job Done
I am a jack of all trades and willing to pitch in where the team needs me, still keeping long-term priorities in line. I can juggle multiple personal projects, while also offering aid to teammates or learning new skills in order to enhance my overall contributions to the group.

Where do you feel you have an opportunity to grow?

🌏 Deepening Global Perspectives
I am seeking opportunities to deepen my knowledge of global supply chain traceability and my understanding of the diverse international business landscape within product creation.
Action Plan: Taking weekly Japanese classes through JASO

🚀 Entrepreneurial Exposure
I want to deepen my understanding of what it takes to start a business from the ground up so that I can better anticipate and contribute to opportunities for strategic business growth and innovation.
Action Plan: Learning how to establish a 503(c)3 with GFAT

My leadership style…

🙌 Motivates others through appreciation and recognition

💪 Enables opportunities by removing barriers

🤙 Catalyzes ideas by encouraging spontaneity, humor, and joy

🤝 Improves through candid, specific, and bi-directional feedback

What are your biggest celebrations?

👩‍❤️‍👩 8 years of loving partnership with my wife Hannah

☎️ Launching a 24/7 medical escalation phone line assisting +20k patients

⛺️ Instructing 1,000+ different students in outdoor skills and team building

👟 Running all 30 miles of the Wildwood Trail for my 30th birthday

⛑ Receiving my Wilderness First Responder certification

🍹 Mastering and serving over 100 cocktail recipes in my home bar

What kind of impact do you want to have through your work?

💡Creating Product for Inclusive Communities
I want to investigate unexplored frontiers and whitespaces in product development, building for the hidden and next generations of consumers. I seek to understand the non-user asking questions such as what social, financial or cultural barriers may be prohibiting them from engaging in activities? I want to expand our communities to invite all individuals to enjoy the benefits of the outdoors.

🌱 Promoting Climate Crisis Resiliency & Transparency
While continuous investment in sustainable, environmentally friendly materials and practices is critical, the reality is that as a society we have already passed the threshold of inflicting permanent damage to our world. I want future generations to be able to continue to enjoy nature, despite its changing landscape, by creating systemic practices within companies that are resilient to changes in politics and set the standard for sustainability & transparency for the industry. This desire to keep the outdoors alive for everyone is a driving force for my work within the indsutry.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

🔮 Directing Sustainable Strategy
In the next 5 years, my goal is to help drive operational strategy at a category-defining outdoors brand. Having gained knowledge across functional units through various projects and implementations, I hope to take my systemic view of a company to help drive lasting change anchored in sustainable practices. Additionally, I hope to supplement my product work with continued outdoor education instruction in order to stay close to consumers and their experience with product.