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I’m looking for work! If you know of a people management opportunity that you think I’d be a good fit for, please let me know!

Innovation is our hope for the future, the future of our children and the human race. With global warming, the great recession, failing education programs and a health care system that delivers mediocre care with unsustainable costs, we need to innovate now more than ever. We know, by way of empirical research and by demonstrated business successes, what works.

We need to empower people and transform workplaces so that we can accelerate innovation. Through intrinsic motivation, which is an interest or enjoyment in the task itself, we have 50 years of repeatable, empirical evidence that is backed up by successful businesses like Google and Best Buy in the US and SEMCO in Brazil. It teaches us that environments that foster intrinsic motivation are the best way to set peoples minds free so they can innovate. There is also the emerging field of Neuroleadership, which is dedicated to the intersection of neuroscience and business. It teaches us how our brains work at work, which turns out to be at the center of creating states of mind that are more conducive to innovation.
 

I’ve managed people for 25 years in the US federal government, state governments, fortune 100 and educational institutions as well as the National Guard and in small businesses. I’ve fixed everything from heavy machinery to copy machines, spent 10 years in retail and worked as a jeweler. I’ve backpacked across Western and Eastern Europe, Turkey and in my most recent adventure I traveled by plane, train, jeep, camel and by foot from Mongolia to India by way of Southeast Asia. At the largest counter culture event in the US I’ve helped build a complex, diverse, multifaceted team of 600 volunteers that focuses on non confrontational mediation of participants. I’m currently living in San Francisco. I have a BFA from the School of Design at UMASS Dartmouth.