Perspectives
Thoughts on business building, AI fluency, retail, brand strategy, and the intersection of twenty years of operating experience with the tools now reshaping it. More pieces are in the works — quality over frequency.
AI fluency matters. But so does knowing what problem you're actually trying to solve. Twenty years of operating experience changes how you ask questions, how you evaluate outputs, and how you apply the answers. Here's what that looks like in practice.
Read the articleGoing from zero products to 130 SKUs while running a multi-location retail chain isn't a straightforward task. Product development, regulatory compliance, supplier risk, and the vendor backlash nobody warns you about — here's what I learned doing all of it without a playbook.
Read the articleKardish didn't close because it was poorly run. It closed because the structural forces reshaping retail are real, powerful, and largely beyond the control of any individual operator. Ten years of customer foot traffic data tells the story — and carries a hard lesson about trusting your own numbers.
Read the articleSix years on the Board of Canada's largest natural health products association — two of them as President — taught me what governance actually looks like at the national level. The policy work, the stakeholder management, the difference between operating a business and helping steer an industry.
Read the articleEvery hiring process optimizes for specialists. Every LinkedIn profile leads with a single title. But the operators who've actually done the work across every function of a business have a kind of judgment that's about to become more valuable, not less — especially as AI compresses the time required to execute.
Read the articleI'm easy to reach. Drop me a line if anything here resonated — or if you have a topic you'd like to see me tackle.