The engagements in this portfolio were not selected because they are the cleanest stories. They were selected because they are the most honest ones.

Across twenty years and six very different contexts — Fortune 500 CPG, a roll-up SPAC in a regulated industry, family-owned heritage brands, a real estate developer in one of the most distressed cities in the country, and a PE-backed senior care operator — a pattern holds. The work rarely started where it was supposed to. The brief was usually incomplete. The expensive mistake was frequently already in progress. The hard conversation had usually been deferred by the time I arrived.

What these engagements have in common is not a category or a company type. It’s a moment: the one where someone needs to understand what is actually broken before deciding what to do about it. That diagnostic instinct — finding the real problem underneath the presenting one, naming it clearly, and building forward from there — is the through line.