About Verge

Verge exists to help leaders and organizations navigate complexity without losing their people, their values, or their effectiveness.

Who I Am

I’m a former Navy SEAL and an applied complexity scientist. I’ve spent my career operating in environments where uncertainty, risk, and rapid change weren’t theoretical—they carried real consequences.

After leaving the SEAL Teams, I turned my focus to organizations facing a different kind of pressure: fast-moving markets, cultural breakdowns, leadership fatigue, and systems that no longer behave the way leaders expect them to.

Why Complexity Matters

Most leadership and organizational models assume stability, predictability, and linear cause-and-effect. Real organizations don’t work that way.

Organizations are complex adaptive systems—networks of people, relationships, incentives, and feedback loops. Small actions can produce outsized effects. Well-intended decisions can create unintended consequences. Culture emerges whether leaders shape it or not.

When leaders understand this, they stop trying to “control” behavior and start designing the conditions that allow healthy patterns of behavior—culture — to emerge.

What I Focus On

My work sits at the intersection of four deeply connected dynamics:

• Culture — the patterns of behavior that emerge from everyday interactions
• Leadership — formal and informal influence that shapes direction and meaning
• Strategy — how organizations adapt to reality rather than idealized plans
• Performance — what the system actually produces over time

When these elements are aligned, organizations become more resilient, more adaptive, and more humane. When they aren’t, dysfunction scales quickly.

Stepping Across the Verge

A mentor once told me, “Discomfort is where the change occurs.”

Real transformation requires crossing a threshold—away from familiar habits and toward feedback, learning, and honest self-examination. That moment of discomfort is the verge—the threshold where growth becomes possible.

My role is to help leaders and teams cross it deliberately, without breaking trust or burning out the system.

How I Work

I don’t deliver formulas or one-size-fits-all solutions. I partner with leaders to understand their system as it actually is—its constraints, incentives, histories, and relationships.

Drawing on special operations experience and complexity science, I help organizations learn faster, adapt better, and make decisions that hold up under pressure.

Let’s Talk

If you’re navigating change, pressure, or uncertainty—and want a clearer view of what’s really happening in your organization—I’m happy to talk.