Publications
Failing Safely: Expanding the Zone of Acceptable Failure
Chief Learning Officer Magazine, July 2025
How leaders can systematize safe failure by developing acceptable safety thresholds calibrated to individual competence, creating environments where learning from failure is encouraged within defined risk boundaries.
Improving Team Performance with Collaborative Problem-Solving
Chief Learning Officer Magazine, May 2025
How structured gameplay can improve teamwork by developing collaboration, cooperation, and communication skills, improving measurable individual and collective output.
Read:
https://www.chieflearningofficer.com/2025/05/07/improving-team-performance-with-collaborative-problem-solving/
The Power of the Pivot
Reboot Magazine, February 2026
A feature profile on Docker’s technology strategy and my approach to leadership development, learning ecosystems, and building operational excellence through team development.
Read:
https://www.thebossmagazine.com/profile/docker
Selected Speaking & Media
Gartner IT Symposium 2025 — Interview guest, “Enterprise AI Transformation”
CIO Dive / Rippling Webinar — “Bring Your Own AI” (August 2025)
Linux Foundation Open Source Summit — “Creating Equitable Interview Environments” (2021)
TabGeeks Conference — Keynote, “Building High-Performance IT Organizations” (2019)
TabGeeks Micro — Panelist, “Building a World-Class Help Desk” (2019)
ITKIT Conference — Panelist, “Delightful Onboarding” (2018). Voted favorite panelist.
MacBrained — Inaugural speaker, “Twitter’s Threat Identification Platform” (2014)
MacIT — Co-presenter with Cisco on public-key cryptography in endpoint management (2013)
MacTech Conference — QuickTalk on macOS and iOS endpoint management (2012)
Podcast
I host the Leadership Bootcamp Podcast, exploring leadership development, organizational behavior, and what makes teams actually work. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and YouTube.