I’ve read it from the other side of the table.

I’ve spent my career doing the evaluating.

I’ve read hundreds of dissertations, manuscripts, and dossiers, almost always as the person evaluating them. That’s why clients come to me: when I read your work, I already know how the committee will judge it, because I’ve spent years on those committees myself.

But evaluation is one facet of a wider career in education. I’ve taught, researched, and led at leading R1 research universities, including Yale, Northwestern, Brandeis, the University of Virginia, the University of Wisconsin, Purdue, North Carolina State, and the University at Buffalo, as a professor and director of doctoral programs, a postdoctoral and visiting scholar, a learning scientist, and a senior director of leadership development. Over more than sixteen years I’ve taught, mentored, and built programs for learners at every stage, from middle- and high-school students to undergraduates, and from master’s and doctoral candidates to the working professionals earning their degrees while they lead.

I’ve authored three books, two with Routledge (one forthcoming), and more than fifty peer-reviewed works cited 600+ times. I’m the creator of Collective Autoethnography (CoAE), a qualitative research method now used across education, healthcare, and the social sciences, and I’ve served as an editor, invited speaker, and peer reviewer across my field. My subject is how scholars and leaders are made, which is exactly what I help my clients become.