I help senior data science managers, new directors, and high-performing ICs navigate the part of the job no one puts in the handbook.

Moving beyond front-line analytics isn’t just about bigger projects or shinier titles — it’s about learning how decisions actually get made, what the business truly values (versus what it says it values), and which levers you can realistically pull without someone quietly killing your roadmap.

It’s about figuring out how to delegate without losing the plot, how to let your team fail safely, and how to protect them from the churn of every new “operating model refresh” while keeping them focused on work that matters.

I also help ICs decide whether management’s actually the right move. Not everyone wants to trade technical depth for budget meetings and inbox maintenance. I’m honest about what leadership costs, what it buys you, and how to prep if you decide to make that shift.

I can also help firms sort out fact from fiction as they navigate their first wave of AI vendor pitches, cloud platform sales decks, and digital transformation slideware. Whether it’s deciding if you actually need a platform engineering team, whether your business is ready for GenAI tooling, or how to hire your first data scientist without falling for buzzword theater — I’ve lived through that transition and can help you avoid the usual expensive mistakes.

I’m especially attuned to operationally grounded analytics work — the kind done far from Silicon Valley, inside real businesses where margin, inventory, throughput, and staffing matter more than your latest cloud-native architecture diagram. I won’t quote HBR at you, and I don’t believe a product strategy workshop is going to fix your stock-to-sales ratio.

And if you’re curious what the management consultants are really doing in that conference room, or how to stay standing through the next reorg, we can talk about that too.

I’ve spent years delivering pragmatic analytics in environments where data maturity is a slogan and transformation initiatives are a line item. If you’re trying to build something that works anyway — or deciding whether you even want to — I’m happy to compare notes.