Chaos With Intention
Clarity for complex situations. Justified confidence for what comes next.
Strategic advisory, investigations, speaking, and training for conflict, complexity, transition, and
high-stakes decisions.
The Framework
Chaos changes what we can see.
When pressure rises, people narrow their focus. Urgency starts to feel like importance. Fear gets mistaken for information. The loudest problem becomes the only problem.
That is when strategy matters most.
Before I try to solve anything, I orient to what is actually happening.
Where are we standing? What is true right now? What assumptions are we making? What framework, system, environment, or constraints are we operating within?
Then we establish the goal—not simply What do you want to do? but Where are you actually trying to get?
From there, we identify the options, test assumptions, examine risks and consequences, look for what may be missing, and build a strategy around the outcome we are actually trying to create.
The six-step process is simple:
1. Orient to the situation.
2. Establish the goal.
3. Understand the framework.
4. Determine the options.
5. Build the strategy.
6. Move forward with intention.
And when you get new information or circumstances change, return to an earlier step if necessary. Make sure you're still on the path to advance your goals then proceed accordingly.
The framework changes with the problem. The strategic process doesn’t.
That is the foundation of my work—whether I am advising a leadership team, conducting an investigation, mentoring someone through a difficult decision, mediating conflict, or teaching a room full of people how to solve complex problems.
Chaos is inevitable. Direction is a choice.
Mediation
Not every conflict needs another person telling each side why they're right
I offer mediation in divorce, family-law matters, and other high-conflict disputes for people who need a neutral, experienced third party to help identify the real issues, manage difficult conversations, evaluate possible resolutions, and work toward agreements they can actually live with.
Nearly 20 years of high-conflict litigation and mediation taught me how to stay grounded when emotions are loud, positions are entrenched, and there is more underneath the disagreement than what appears on the surface.
Available for remote mediation and select in-person mediation in the Spokane, WA and Coeur d' Alene, ID area.
What Do I Do Wednesday?
Free Weekly Zoom Strategy Mastermind
Every Wednesday, I teach on a different family-law topic and then open the conversation for people to bring situations, questions, or decisions they are trying to navigate.
The Mastermind is designed to help you better understand the framework you’re operating within, recognize the questions you should be asking, identify options you may not have considered, and think more strategically about what comes next.
It is education and group discussion—not individualized legal advice or a private Strategy Session.