I envision future products through prototyping, storytelling, and data to align everyone on what the right solution is—and whether we’re on the right path or not. This gives me and my teams more agency and credibility.

I make sure our approach is centered on getting real customers to experience our solution. This informs and validates our decisions and helps us learn early—all in service of accelerating our progress.

I build and lead talented, inclusive teams to assemble purposeful combinations of talents and people. This puts people into situations to succeed and grow, rather than fit into a pre-set mold.

I coach them as they encounter challenges along the way, being careful not to solve for them. This helps them get the most benefit out of their growth opportunities.

I’ve led teams through being acquired and through an internal merger of units into a new 3000-person business.

I make sure the whole team has the right business context to connect execution to strategy, so they can make better decisions on their own.

All the planning and strategy in the world won’t beat great execution.

I flex between director and builder on a daily basis, staying close to the problem, the business, and the product’s code and pixels.