About Me

What drives me? The fact that effective communications can change the world.

Strategic professional communications goes far beyond information sharing and awareness raising. When it’s done well, it can educate, inspire, and engage people, drive results and impact, and mobilize change. This is why I’m passionate about communications, and this is what has driven my career and achievements in this field for over 20 years.

I’m an accomplished communications strategist and leader, delivering impactful results for mission-driven organizations. I’ve lived in nine countries and traveled to many more, learning from diverse cultures and incorporating diverse perspectives and approaches in my work.

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionate about making an impact through communications, be it visual, in-person, written, or digital. I studied graphic design, media culture, and international business. This effectively prepared me to pursue a communications career, and I haven’t looked back since.

Throughout my career, I have delivered effective communications strategies, plans, and projects targeting internal and external stakeholders across a range of platforms and channels to inspire, inform, engage, and mobilize. This work has produced strong results for mission-driven organizations across diverse sectors, including Confluence Philanthropy (an impact investing membership organization), the United Nations, the European Commission, the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF), The Courier magazine, GOPA Com. (an award-winning global communications agency), and global NGO networks.

In progressively responsible roles, I have established a consistent reputation for being diplomatic, solution and detail oriented, personable, reliable, and a strong collaborator. Employing these traits, my work has enhanced the positioning and visibility of programs, boosted knowledge sharing and engagement, enhanced thought leadership across diverse sectors, driven organizational and behavior change, transformed advocacy, increased media coverage, mobilized funding and new business, and established new partnerships.

I’m the quintessential communications practitioner, with top-notch skills in a wide range of areas, including:

  • External communications and engagement

  • Internal, HR, organizational culture, and employee engagement communications

  • Executive communications

  • Behavior and social change communications

  • External, public, and media relations

  • Program communications

  • Organizational change and crisis communications

  • Brand building

  • Campaign development and implementation

  • Content strategy and marketing

  • Social media management and engagement

  • Audiovisual production

  • Publication production

  • Writing, editing, and proofreading content for diverse platforms and channels

  • Advocacy

  • Social marketing

In addition, I have successfully coordinated and led diverse teams and advised and collaborated with diverse stakeholders at all levels. Within organizations, I have worked with executives, senior managers, business partners, technical experts, and regional and country managers. I have also worked with external partners from multilateral organizations, private and public sector institutions, civil society, and media organizations.

In my free time, you’ll find me honing my communications skills by reading up on the latest trends or pursuing a certification, working on art projects, writing on my various blogs, making music, spending quality time with family and friends, traveling to new or fond locales with my wife, or living in the moment.

Learn more about my experience, skills, and work on this website, and feel free to get in touch via LinkedIn.