Futurist · Strategist · Business Architect
See. Align. Build.
I help leaders see what's coming, align people and systems around what matters, and build what comes next.
Strategy, documentary film, and audio storytelling.
I help leaders see what's coming, align people and systems around what matters, and build what comes next.
Strategy, documentary film, and audio storytelling.
Enterprise strategy, fractional leadership, documentary film, and audio storytelling.
Strategic planning, scenario work, and the Certified Futurist discipline: seeing what's emerging before it becomes obvious, and deciding what to do about it.
Mapping how the organization actually works - capabilities, systems, incentives - so change lands where it's supposed to.
Chief-of-staff work: program management, change management, executive communication, and keeping the important things moving.
I take on a small number of advisory and fractional engagements alongside my search for the right Chief of Staff or enterprise strategy role. Get in touch.
Most organizations don't have an answer problem. They have a question problem.
I've spent more than twenty years inside financial services, government, economic development, consulting, publishing, and the military. The titles said communications, marketing, public affairs. The work was always broader: connecting executives and operators, strategy and execution, technology and people, today's requirements and tomorrow's consequences.
Today my focus is enterprise strategy, business architecture, and strategic operations: the work that lives between functions. Along the way I founded and edited an award-winning community magazine, ran public affairs for a growing Texas city, built two consulting practices, and served the South Carolina State Guard in command, public affairs, and intelligence roles.
I'm a Certified Futurist, with executive education in breakthrough innovation strategy through X, The Moonshot Factory. Futurism, done right, is not prediction. It's recognizing what's emerging before it becomes obvious.
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Produced for AgFirst Farm Credit Bank as an AI proof of concept: script, visuals, voice, and edit, all AI-assisted.
A second AI proof-of-concept film for AgFirst, exploring the long arc of American agriculture.
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National product campaign video for Continental’s sport-touring motorcycle tire.
Launch spot for the ContiRoadAttack 4 sport tire.
Product campaign video for the TKC70 adventure tire.
Brand video for the ContiTour touring tire line.
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State Guard units came together for the Cooper River Bridge Run from Mt. Pleasant to Charleston. The post on LinkedIn.
PFC Andrew Reininger of the South Carolina State Guard Search and Rescue Command demonstrates how to roll clothing for compact packing.
Recruiting video produced for the South Carolina State Guard Academy.
Award video produced for the South Carolina State Guard.
Founder and editor of a community magazine that earned state recognition for its covers and reporting. The full archive of past issues lives at issuu.com/schertz.
Selected documentary films, history shorts, and instructional work. Hear the audio work.
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A look at Apollo 11, the Space Race, and the mission that first landed humans on the moon.
A documentary short connecting Orson Welles to the story of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the civil rights history told in Richard Gergel's Unexampled Courage.
Spotlight on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Aviation Unit.
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The story of Mahalia Jackson and her call to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to tell the crowd about his dream at the Lincoln Memorial.
A look back at Dick Clark and American Bandstand as the music and dance show went national on ABC in 1957.
A history short about the 1863 battle at Fort Wagner and the 54th Massachusetts African-American Regiment.
A profile of U.S. Marine Dan Daly, his military honors, and the volunteer spirit.
A history short about the Allied plan to invade Sicily after the North African campaign in World War II.
A short history of Spam, the American canned food introduced in 1937.
A look back at the nationwide 1955 drill and the Cold War duck-and-cover campaign.
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A behind-the-scenes visit to City Barbeque in Charlotte's University area.
A visit with Brian O'Neal and the crew at Benford Brewing, a farm-based brewery in Lancaster, South Carolina.
Founder Jarvis Roberts gives a tour of his Belmont, North Carolina, nano brewery and discusses the challenges of opening it.
Tabu and Jennifer Terrell discuss building a family brewery in Charlotte while working as ER physicians.
A visit to The Craft Stand bottle shop in Lancaster, South Carolina, ahead of its opening.
The same essay, heard instead of read. Read the essay.
An illustrated fable about work, set inside the Standard Provision Company - a hot dog company founded the year of the crash.
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The Interrobang is a weekly essay on foresight, strategy, organizations, and the changing nature of work. Audio and radio theatre are in the works. Read it at theinterrobang.net.
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