About Me

I did not come to this work by accident, nor only through personal experience. I came to it through four decades of building, training, and leading people inside complex systems—and learning how real change actually happens.

My professional career began in operations, early-stage startups, and large-scale organizational leadership, working at the intersection of execution, accountability, and risk. Over the years, I held senior roles responsible for program development, revenue assurance, regulatory compliance, and C-level and board-facing leadership. That work required precision, discipline, and an unflinching relationship with responsibility—especially when failure carried real human cost.

Since 2014, my work has focused more intentionally on training, curriculum design, and formation. I have developed and delivered learning programs across organizations, facilitated complex conversations, and trained thousands of participants from widely different backgrounds. This work required translating values into practice, building accountability into systems, and sustaining change beyond intention or goodwill.

For much of my career, I cared deeply about safety—but primarily in operational and physical terms. Emotional and spiritual safety were not yet categories I knew how to name. That changed through sobriety, my personal reconciliation with my faith tradition, and the long process of understanding the harm done to me as a queer child within religious systems that confused shame with holiness.

What emerged was not a loss of moral grounding, but clarity. I came to understand that when institutions claim moral authority—especially religious ones—they carry an obligation to protect people from harm, even when doing so is uncomfortable, costly, or countercultural. I never want to see another child harmed in the ways I was, or to witness the lasting damage such harm causes when it is ignored, spiritualized, or denied.

This clarity gave rise to what I now call Sacred Safety: the conviction that if something is sacred, it must also be safe—and that trust is earned through accountability, not intention.

DIVINE All Along was founded at the intersection of lived experience and professional expertise. Through DIVINE Spaces, the organization’s certification and accountability framework, Sacred Safety is applied concretely—drawing directly from my background in curriculum architecture, training systems, organizational leadership, and institutional change.

Alongside this work, I have hosted more than one hundred long-form public conversations with theologians, pastors, scholars, and cultural leaders through Radical Love Live, exploring how faith shapes lives, how harm occurs even when people mean well, and what responsibility requires of those who lead.

I lead this work as both a practitioner and a witness—someone who understands how institutions function, how people are formed, and how transformation becomes sustainable rather than performative. My vocation is not to dismantle faith, but to insist that faith worthy of trust must protect human dignity, especially where power and vulnerability meet.