Twenty years as a minister, public theologian, and strategist leading religious institutions. Founding team of West Co, alongside Biz Stone and Evan Sharp.
2026 · West Co at 14 people · app prototyping, testing and deployment
Designed, built and tested Tend (in production) with AI agents
Full-stack product prototypes
Built out Tend-specific knowledge corpus
Claude Code
Claude Opus, Sonnet 5, and Fable
Anthropic SDK
Next.js
Vercel
Hume TTS
PostHog
KV
2017–2023
Co-Founder & Principal, Managing Partner Sacred Design Lab
Director of Strategy, Impact Lab at the On Being Project · 2018–2019
Director of Strategy, How We Gather · 2017–2019
organization and product concepting
business strategy + client pipeline management
client pipeline management
public speaking, writing, media interviews
research
design methodology
strategy screens
facilitation
writing
financial management
2017–2021
spiritual innovation research and convenings
institutional and partner relationship management
writing, public speaking, media
2008–2017
District Executive, Mass Bay & Clara Barton Districts · 2010–2011
Director of Program Development, Mass Bay District · 2008–2010
spiritual and organizational leader of 235 New England congregations
advised, coached, and trained ministers, religious educators, and lay leaders
managed 13-person team
built crowdfunding platform with $2m+ investments
adaptive leadership
governance
conflict intervention
staff supervision
strategy
2012–2015
design curriculum for and taught UU Polity and Practices
student formation,
independent research, writing, and study on congregational polity
teaching
congregational polity
student formation
research and writing
1995–2003
Leadership team of $65 million community development loan fund
Assessed financial feasibility of and underwrote affordable housing projects
Education
M.Div., Episcopal Divinity School
B.A., Colgate University
Ordained Unitarian Universalist minister