My work has been about one question: how do organizations actually change and succeed? I've spent just as long inside the same question about my own life.

I've spent my career inside large-scale transformation, the kind that is supposed to change how organizations work, what they're capable of and who they serve. Some of it worked. A lot of it didn't. And somewhere in the middle of that, I started noticing that the same forces resisting change in organizations were present in me, in my relationships, in my faith, in the way I had learned to move through the world.

That's what this publication is about. The questions underneath the work, the ones that don't fit in a leadership paper and don't resolve on a timeline.

The essays here move between work, culture, faith and the systems we inhabit without always announcing which one they're in. That's intentional. The problems tend not to stay in their lanes either.

Some things only hold if they're true. This is where I work out what those things are.