Capabilities
- Strategy/representation for business, nonprofit boards/staff, government agencies, individuals
- Project management, writing, communications, public speaking, training, and conflict resolution
- Real estate entitlements including land use plans and management of the public approval process
Strengths
- Managing multi-disciplinary teams focused on nuanced, time-sensitive tasks
- Serving as liaison/agent/advocate in external communications and negotiations
- Collaborating as a writer/editor on development of creative/public facing content
Outlook
Helping clients achieve their goals has made for an interesting and rewarding career. I am grateful — especially when client work serves also to make way for a good idea or beneficial product or project. That puts the wind in my sails.
Mark Twain, on Media
“If you don’t read the newspaper you’re uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.”
James Baldwin, on Timing
“There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.”
Clients
I’ve worked with start-ups, large firms, land developers, conservationists, government agencies, and many non-profits: colleges and universities, hospitals, museums, and both service- and mission-based non-governmental organizations, mostly in the U. S.
I’ve learned a lot from working closely with leaders and accomplished people in business, philanthropy, government, and academia. I bring to clients the benefit of that experience.
(partial list)
- Arts Orange County
- C. J. Segerstrom & Sons
- City of Laguna Beach CA
- County of Orange CA
- Democracy International
- East West Foundation
- Federated Department Stores
- H&K Strategies
- Henry and Elizabeth Segerstrom
- Institute for a Democratic Alternative for Zimbabwe
- Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry
- Katrina Foley, Orange County CA Supervisor
- Laguna Art Museum
- Laguna Greenbelt
- National Commission on Air Quality
- National Institute for Dispute Resolution
- North American Telecommunications Association
- Pacific Council on International Relations
- Radford Enterprises
- Rancho Santiago Community College District
- Save Orange Hills Land Conservancy
- South Coast (now Mission) Hospital
- South Coast Plaza Partners
- Tom Hoog & Associates
- University of California
- U. S. Agency for International Development
- U. S. Department of State
- U. S. Senator Gary Hart