I write to ask the question I could not stop thinking about.
A book with Wiley, its companions, a middle-grade series, and columns across Forbes, Entrepreneur, Los Angeles Magazine, and Fair Observer, where I serve as Editor-at-Large.
Not a byline. A body of work.
Everything I have authored and published under ReignLight, from the leadership work to the fiction. Hover any cover to read the back.
The themes underneath the bylines
I do not write to explain. I write to examine, out loud, in public, and to invite you into the examination. The pieces change publication and subject, but the current under them stays the same: the stories we inherit before we can choose them, and the moment we decide to author the next chapter ourselves.
Some of it is about leadership. Some of it is about culture, technology, and the strange new rooms we are all learning to speak in. All of it comes back to a single, stubborn belief: the people who examine their own story change everything, and almost no one does it without being asked.
Meeting the moment without sensationalizing it
A short film on one of the hardest questions in writing: how to tell a devastating true story with dignity instead of spectacle. It is the discipline underneath everything I put my name to. Narrated, and made to be watched more than once.
A few pieces to prove the point
A Pope and an NBA legend, a Formula 1 champion and a genocide survivor, a rock star and a historian of fascism. The range is the argument. Each piece links to the original.
The mastheads
Forbes
Columns on narrative leadership and the human side of how organizations communicate under pressure.
Read on Forbes →Entrepreneur
On story as the founder's most underused instrument, and the trap of the polished pitch.
Read on Entrepreneur →Fair Observer
Longer, more analytical essays on culture, technology, and meeting the moment we are actually in.
Read on Fair Observer →For those bold enough to hand me their story.
Some of the most important books never carry my name. I work with a small number of leaders, founders, and originals who have a story worth the world's attention and the nerve to tell it true. I bring the method and the craft. You bring the life. The book comes out yours.
There is a difference between learning from a culture and disappearing into it. The early years are exactly when that line is hardest to hold.
Want a piece written for your audience, or your name on a book?
I take on a small number of commissioned essays and ghostwriting projects each year. If your idea has a real question underneath it, I want to hear it.