“As the year closes, I’ve been taking stock of the work that helped bring greater discipline to ideas already in motion.

One of the more useful contributions this year came from working with Peter Winick and Bill Sherman at Thought Leadership Leverage. Their engagement added strategic clarity and structural rigor — sharpening audience focus, sequencing platforms, and treating thought leadership as something that must be designed, not promoted.

That kind of work matters in moments like this, when systems still function but no longer make sense, and when responsibility can no longer remain diffuse. Structure is what allows ideas to travel, compound, and ultimately be useful.”