Evidence and applied research
What I knowAnd how I know it
Every figure on this page comes from a delivered program.
I build programming for membership organizations, associations, institutions and federal agencies, then measure whether it worked. This page collects the engagements, the instruments and the findings behind the method.
The premise
Putting the human back into a dehumanized world
Organizations do not disengage because their people stopped caring. They disengage because the work stopped paying them back. That is a design problem, and design problems are solvable.
My research sits at the intersection of three things: what an organization says it needs, what a scored instrument shows it actually needs, and what changes once the program is built against the second answer instead of the first. The engagements below are where that method has been tested.
Case studies
Member organizations and associations
Associations carry a specific problem. The membership is never one audience, attendance is voluntary, and the programming competes with the member's own working day. These four engagements are where I worked that problem.
NMSDC
Programming that produced contracts, not attendance
A twelve week live series delivered inside the Capital Readiness Program for a national membership body with 23 regional affiliate councils.
in member firm contract awards within the first four months
show rate across twelve consecutive weeks
member businesses
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National Business League
Running the working day at the oldest national business association in the country
Designed and facilitated the National Buyer-Supplier Summit, a full day of the 126th Annual Conference, for an association founded in 1900.
speaker applications received, one selection
membership tiers mapped to session design
question scored readiness instrument built for reuse
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WELD, Women for Economic and Leadership Development
A leadership session built for the people about to take the chairs
A ninety minute session at the 2026 WELD Leadership Conference at Otterbein University, delivered to an audience of association leaders.
registered attendees
minute session
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NALA, The Paralegal Association
Teaching a credentialed profession to put AI to work
Four sessions across a single annual conference, and the corporate engagement the association's own programming produced.
sessions delivered, one repeated to meet demand
corporate client engaged directly out of the conference
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Delivered for
Institutions, enterprise and federal agencies
The same method, applied outside the association context.
MBDA Federal Procurement Center, U.S. Department of Commerce
Federal Procurement Center delivery team
Stood up and led a tactical delivery team providing advising, training and implementation support to more than 400 member firms pursuing federal work.
VentureWell
Federal readiness for colleges and universities
A four part webinar series for more than 50 participants from institutions nationwide, with one on one consultation on grant applications and strategic plans.
GEP
Federal market growth
Registered the firm across nine OTA consortiums, authored a white paper the firm published for federal decision makers, and built a GSA MAS expansion strategy.
U.S. Agency for Global Media
Mission critical curriculum at global scale
nDemand designed and delivered twelve training programs for eight host countries, localized into five languages, supporting operations in high risk environments.
KDM and Associates
Federal contracting incubator cohort
Structured training, certification support and incubator style mentorship delivered on a learning platform with an interactive community forum.
Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Federal program operator collaboration
Ongoing collaboration among federal program operators on compliance, advocacy and delivery practice across a national operator group.
Primary research
The instruments and the findings
The Great Divide
A book built on the scored readiness assessment results of small businesses pursuing government and corporate contracts. The central finding: a large share of firms actively bidding for work scored lowest on governance and basic operating systems, the two things no buyer will overlook. Published October 2026.
Read the bookThe readiness assessment
A scored instrument that measures an organization across leadership, governance and risk, digital systems, AI readiness and market positioning, normalized to a hundred point scale with disqualifier logic and a personalized roadmap. It is the diagnostic underneath every cohort and curriculum I build.
See the instrumentWhat Lasts Is What Stays Human
My first TEDx talk, on why the organizations that survive rapid AI adoption are the ones that stay human while they scale. Releasing November 2026.
Watch when it releasesBring the method to your organization
If you lead a membership organization, an association, an institution or a program and you want programming your people actually finish, that is the conversation.
Now booking
2026 and 2027
Keynotes, workshops, and leadership series, in person, virtual, or hybrid.
My pledge: every engagement delivers clear strategy, practical tools, and next steps tailored to your team, and I stay in the work until those outcomes are reached.