I like to challenge my audiences, so my style can sometimes be shockingly or humorously bold, but I try to temper this through a classically Midwest humility born out of my faith: I make much of others but little of myself.

Before I was an author, I founded Memra: a linguistics‑informed learning lab that brought these ideas into leadership teams and public‑facing organizations.

Today, I bring that same approach to audiences who want to replace their understanding of language as relationally risky or empty performance with a new understanding, where language is a divine gift that we are intended to use as an instrument of creation.