A unique perspective.
Five things the people who hire him get, and where each one comes from.
Speaks technology as fluently as story.
He started in game design and computer graphics animation, then wrote the code, shipped the products and argued for the cloud before it was accepted, so the CTO and the board hear the same keynote and both recognize it. No translator between the technical room and the executive one, and no slide that has to be taken on faith.
A speaker who remembers the back of the room.
An introvert who learned the stage knows what it costs people to speak up. The panels he facilitates get the quiet experts talking, and the keynotes are built from questions the audience is already carrying, not from slides.
Works across cultures and time zones without a default market.
Six years across Europe, Asia and the Americas means a mixed audience and a distributed team are the normal case for him, not the exception. The advice is not built for one market and translated for the rest.
Presence he practises, not preaches.
Guitar, opera and poetry are where he recovers, and he heads innovation at Lyrica Classic, a non-profit for contemporary and lesser-known classical music. It shows in the work: sessions that leave room to think, and advice that accounts for the human cost of the change it asks for.
Turns complexity into a story the room can retell.
Reality Check is an author’s discipline applied to technology: nine principles, a way of finding the right question, and a habit of saying the complex thing plainly. It shows in how he communicates. A strategy becomes a story the room can follow, remember, and repeat to the people who were not there, and the Institute is the follow-through once the event ends.
