About Me

I'm a technology transformation consultant. For 25 years I've worked inside organizations during their most pressured moments: mergers, restructures, large-scale implementations, the kinds of changes that arrive with urgency and leave people trying to make sense of what just happened to them.

That work gave me a long view of something most organizations never examine: the unseen systems and assumptions that shape working life so completely that they stop feeling like choices. Nobody consciously decided that human wellbeing should be secondary to capital outcomes. Nobody sat down and chose to design organizations that treat people as variables. It happened through accumulated decisions, inherited structures, and language that made each step feel not just reasonable but obvious, the only way things could be.

That's what I study. Not bad actors or poor leadership, though those exist. The deeper thing: how organizations come to treat humans as a resource to be optimized rather than a purpose to be served, and how that arrangement reproduces itself invisibly, through the words we use, the metrics we trust, the stories we tell about what work is for.

I'm building a scholarly foundation in critical organizational studies, the field that refuses to take organizational common sense at face value. That work is in progress. This site is part of it.

Working Notions is where I think out loud about the language and systems that keep business human-second and capital first, and what it would take to build working life differently. Not as charity. Not as a feel-good rebranding of the same extraction logic. As a genuine structural alternative grounded in what humans actually need to do good work and live whole lives.

Some pieces are long. Some are short. All of them are attempts to make visible what has been allowed to feel normal.

If you've ever sensed that something about working life is wrong in a way you couldn't quite name, you're in the right place. That unnamed thing is what we're looking for here.