Leadership · Delivery · Accessibility
I lead complex programs and help organizations build accessibility into how they work. My job is turning ambiguity into structure and giving leaders language they can actually use.
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Sep 14, 2026
Leadership · Delivery · Strategy · Quality
Every leader who adds one more thing thinks they are being reasonable. The team is the one who keeps the running total. Here is what it adds up to.
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Every leader who adds one more thing thinks they are being reasonable. The team is the one who keeps the running total. Here is what it adds up to.
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The goal is to make accessibility something people understand and can act on. Not a checklist. A skill.
Before Deque, I spent 13 years at State Farm leading enterprise programs across ERP, data center, infrastructure, and divestiture, with teams and vendor relationships at scale.
Operating model
Four things I come back to on every program: catch problems early, get everyone working from the same picture, deliver without losing quality, and make sure the next team starts better than this one did. This is how I have run $1.6B divestitures, enterprise data center migrations, and accessibility programs that changed how organizations build.
Signal
Catch the problems that compound. Accessibility gaps and missed NFRs usually show up late because nobody named them early.
Align
Get funding, architecture, and delivery on the same page. When those three are out of sync, nothing lands right.
Deliver
Give the team a clear picture. Keep quality in the definition of done, not the post-mortem.
Learn
Take what worked and what didn't and build it into how the organization runs. The next program should start ahead of where this one did.
Speaking
Most speakers have given a talk a handful of times. These sessions have been delivered to hundreds of different rooms. That changes what you get.
Leadership behaviors and what it actually takes to build accessibility ownership into how an organization operates. Best for executive forums and leadership conferences.
View session → Accessibility Small BusinessA practical, budget-conscious approach to accessibility for organizations that can't afford to get it wrong and can't afford to get it expensive.
View session → AI Human judgmentWhere AI belongs in your work and where it doesn't. Why the organizations that figure that out first are the ones that stay ahead.
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I write and speak in these areas. If any of it fits what you're working on, I'm available for PMI chapters, conferences, and professional events.
Keeping large programs moving: ordering the work, catching what's in the way, and making sure decisions reach finance, architecture, and delivery teams alike.
Turning accessibility from a compliance task into something teams actually know how to do. Clear expectations, hands-on practice, and language leaders can use.
Training that sticks. The Teach-Try-Show-Revise cycle is built so people can spot quality problems on their own, without leaning on automated tools.
Holding vendors accountable for quality, accessibility, and delivery commitments. Building governance structures that work before something goes wrong.
Available for speaking engagements, consulting, and enterprise accessibility program design.
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