Leadership Through Design
My leadership style is goal oriented and collaborative, built on twenty years as a Production Designer for film, television, and theatre. Collaborative art at professional scale demands a clear vision and precise coordination. I apply the same standard to institutions: define the objective, establish the structure, assemble exceptional people, and direct resources toward growth and impact.
Leadership through design principles forges great organizations. Design binds vision to execution. It requires an institution to state its ambitions clearly, structure itself deliberately, and measure itself against the work it produces. My method is to make the future tangible: visualization, simulation, and prototyping let people see what they are building toward and commit with precision. Organizations built this way compound, because each project strengthens the infrastructure, the talent, and the reputation that make the next one possible.
Academic institutions devoted to R&D and applied research are the perfect crucible for this approach. They concentrate researchers, students, industry partners, and public missions in one place, and design-driven leadership turns that concentration into innovation, economic and workforce development, and a shorter distance between discovery and impact. That is my work: building the facilities, programs, and partnerships that convert a university's capacity into momentum.
I am a recognized leader in AI-driven creativity. I brought generative tools into theatrical design early, and I now direct their use across research, teaching, and studio practice. This work is documented on my AI & Generative Design page.
I maintain an active design practice across media, from mission patch design for NASA's Production Operations group to Off-Broadway theatre design. This fall I am designing a production for Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland, Oregon.