Building a Smarter Approach to High-Stakes Risk
“I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose…” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Project Overview This project involved the development of an interagency process for high-stakes risk management in aviation security, aligned with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 16 (HSPD-16), the federal policy framework in […]
From a Whiteboard to a System of Systems: Executing Across a Network of Moving Parts
“We can’t impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than could ever be produced by our will alone.” — Donella Meadows, Project Overview A former boss entrusted me […]
Planning the Future: How Young Students Are Applying Project Management to City Design
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.“ A. Einstein City of Wenatchi Project On behalf of the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation (PMIEF), I had the pleasure of serving as judge for the Washington State region of Future City 2025–2026, the ultimate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics […]