About Me

I have spent much of my life exploring a question that continues to inspire both my art and my work with others: How do we create meaning from experience?

My journey has taken me through a variety of worlds. As an artist, I have exhibited paintings, drawings, and sculpture in galleries and juried exhibitions in the United States and abroad. My work is represented in private and corporate collections, and my bronze self-portrait was selected to appear on the poster for the international conference "The Self/Le Soi," sponsored by the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne.

My interest in creativity extends beyond the studio. I am co-author, with Kathleen Jordan, of Becoming a Life Change Artist, which explores how major life transitions can become acts of creative transformation. I later wrote Can Art Save Us?, an exploration of how the creative process can help us imagine and shape a better future.

For several years I taught "The Leader as Artist" at MIT Sloan School of Management and founded Creating Futures That Work, a consulting firm that uses arts-based learning to help leaders and organizations strengthen creativity, innovation, collaboration, and problem solving.

Before focusing full-time on this work, I spent 21 years at American Express Financial Advisors, where I held a variety of leadership positions and gained a deep appreciation for the challenges of organizational change, decision making, and human development.

My academic interests have led me to earn a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and an Ed.M. in psychology from Boston University. Across these experiences, a common thread has remained: a curiosity about how people grow, adapt, create, and reimagine their futures.

I welcome your interest in this journey and invite your inquiries about individual works or my work in general. 

Today I continue to paint, write, teach, and learn. I live in Massachusetts with my wife and am grateful for the awesome, ongoing inspiration of my three children and six grandchildren.