The People I Work With
I do my client work myself, but I don't think alone. I work with all kinds of minds: different fields, different kinds of experience, different generations. We work as peers, and each page says how we work together.
Collaborators
People whose thinking I trust, and who keep mine honest.
David Quimby
Systematic Innovation
We have presented together on systematic innovation since 2018.
David Quimby is a patented inventor, entrepreneur, and principal at Innovation Radiation, where he specializes in systematic innovation, experimental design, and technology forecasting. In a career spanning several decades, David has practiced and innovated at the forefront of human-computer interaction and Web architecture.
innovationradiation.com
Dan McCreary
AI Education and Intelligent Textbooks
My coach, mentor and friend. We build intelligent textbooks with his open-source method, and have spoken together on graphs and AI.
Dan McCreary is a pioneering force in AI-powered education and one of the world's leading practitioners of Claude Code Skills for building intelligent textbooks. He is revolutionizing how teaching is done and learning is accomplished by helping educational organizations cut the costs of building free, interactive intelligent textbooks by 100x.
dmccreary.github.io/dmccreary
Sharat Batra, PhD
Storage, Digital Twins & Quantum
A long-time collaborator. I give guest lectures in his engineering classes.
Sharat Batra is a senior technologist and systems architect with over four decades of experience designing, scaling, and delivering complex hardware and data-driven systems in high-reliability environments. His career spans foundational work in magnetic and semiconductor materials, large-scale data storage architectures, AI-driven manufacturing optimization, and emerging quantum computing systems—bridging first-principles physics with real-world product execution.
linkedin.com/in/sharatbatra
Susan (Sue) Hamre
Enterprise Sales Strategy
Sue Hamre is a strategic sales leader and enterprise advisor who spent 27 years at Gartner building C-level relationships across Healthcare and Life Sciences — one of the most complex and regulated sectors in enterprise technology. Trained originally as an architect at the University of Pretoria, she brings a rare visual and structural lens to problem-solving: identifying the root cause of a client's challenge rather than addressing symptoms, and designing comprehensive solutions that align technology investment to business outcomes.
www.linkedin.com/in/susanhamre
Where their thinking shows up
Several of my collaborators have written for the Wisdom Library and the blog.