My work is built on a simple conviction: the best leadership starts with the discipline of seeing a situation, and the people in it, from more than one angle. That discipline didn't start on the job. It started long before it.
I was raised on the Louisiana coast, in a family that weathered hurricanes and rebuilt with a quiet, unshowy resilience. We lost our house to a storm and built it back. Watching that, young, I learned something I've carried into every room since: what it costs when no one shows up for the people in front of them, and what it's worth when someone does. That's the whole reason I do this work.
The path here wasn't the straight one. It ran through community college, then a bachelor's, then a master's degree in human resources earned during a season I didn't yet know would shape my leadership. Along the way I added several HR certifications, including the SPHR, SHRM-SCP, GPHR, and PHRca. I care about the credentials, but not as trophies. They're an accountability structure I hold myself to, and proof of a philosophy of leadership grounded in lived experience rather than theory alone.
Across my career I've built and led HR functions through growth and through hard change, and I learned the most in the rooms that could have broken me, including the hardest year of my professional life. That year, and the childhood that prepared me for it, are where my first book comes from.
I write now from Columbus, Mississippi, a long way up from that coast and still shaped by it. The distance is part of the point: the further I get from where I started, the clearer it is how much of the work began there.
From a Different Angle is that book, written for anyone who has ever had to lead, or be led, through a hard room. I continue to write and speak about the work of leading people, and about the discipline underneath all of it: the angle you see a person from decides what you're able to do for them.
If any of that resonates, the best way to stay close to the work is to reserve the book or follow the writing.