Zero-to-one is the pattern.
I've spent my career doing the hardest kind of leadership work: walking into situations with no team, no playbook, and no momentum—and building something that scales.
At Accenture, I inherited eight fragmented practices with misaligned leadership and no unified culture. I designed a strategy that prioritized three growth businesses, ruthlessly pruned underperformers, and invested in people. Within three years: revenue grew 92%, margins expanded 30%, the team grew from 175 to 300+ consultants, and attrition held at 7–9%—through COVID and a major corporate reorganization. I also served as the Strategy & Consulting leader for the Midwest's $2B Cloud First practice.
At Booz & Company, when 90% of the Digital practice defected overnight, I was handed the wreckage. I recruited a new multidisciplinary team—strategists, developers, designers, UX/UI experts, ethnographers, product managers—redesigned the offerings, expanded into Europe and the Middle East, and grew the business to $30M in annual revenue within 18 months.
Earlier, I created an entirely new industry practice from zero—no clients, no team, no brand. I built original thought leadership, developed C-Suite relationships from scratch, and grew it to $25M at 60%+ gross margins in the US, then extended it internationally to $70M. I led a team of ~90 across multiple geographies.
These are not incremental stories. They are zero-to-one stories. And that pattern—build from nothing, assemble the right people, create the strategy, execute relentlessly, deliver outsized financial results—is the throughline of my entire career.
My foundation is in engineering and systems thinking: a mechanical engineering degree from WVU, an MBA with distinction from Michigan Ross, and five years in automotive systems engineering at General Motors before I ever entered a consulting firm. That engineering mindset shapes everything—I don't just design strategies, I build operating models, manage P&Ls, develop talent pipelines, and create the culture that makes scaling possible.