Open to work

Today I am officially turning my "Open to work" sign on.

I am still passionate about integrating technology and humanity. About helping organizations execute their strategies - run better projects, that deliver long term value…helping organizations innovate and contribute to a sustainable world. And I am not giving this up.

But a key part of innovation is knowing when to stop or change course. The market is not ready for what I want to bring. Emergence is emerging.

Has it been safe to fail? I have learned more this year and a half than in the rest of my years combined, about myself and about the interplay between knowns and unknowns. My intellectual boundaries have been pushed, practicing what I preach by seeking out the uncomfortable.

But I have also lost a lot. I have lost time…pieces of self-worth that modern “man” cannot extricate from money. My CV has a confusing gap in it, and I don’t fit into the boxes recruiters have. Sparring with world leading agile and complexity thinkers and studying constraint theory does not carry the same weight as taking a 2-day SAFe Agile course.

So, I am open for work. I need to contribute to something meaningful so badly I can taste it. And I’m open to what that something is, as long as it is real. I don’t need a fancy title or a huge salary - it just needs to be fair.

What do I bring? I am both strategic and operational, and especially like being involved in connecting these layers. I have 13 years of experience working with enterprise tech, data, AI and business integration, but am educated in the humanities. I believe we need to use both sides of the brain to run successful businesses and my recent studies of complexity science and cybernetics support this notion. I feel capable of taking on the most complex challenges organizations face, so long as I’m not expected to do so while maintaining the status quo. My IQ intimidates some, and I can “nerd out” sometimes, but my heart is huge and authentic. I have a strong work ethic and am passionate about impacting real problems positively, sustainably, and ethically.

If you know someone who may have a job that they have been struggling to find the right person for, please reach out. Perhaps the perfect fit, is a misfit.