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creativity, curiosity, passion & productivity ✨

Believe it or not, my formal education is in Theatre and Psychology.
But it works: to solve product problems, we need engaged people.

My ✨secret sauce✨ is a blend of sharp thinking, active listening, quick synthesis, enthusiastic storytelling, attention to detail, and relationship-building to catalyze great ideas, uncover insights and opportunities, and help product teams get unstuck.

Let's get started. Where will you go next?

Believe it or not, my formal education is in Theatre and Psychology. But it works: to solve product problems, we need engaged people.

My ✨secret sauce✨ is a blend of sharp thinking, active listening, quick synthesis, enthusiastic storytelling, attention to detail, and relationship-building to catalyze great ideas, uncover insights and opportunities, and help product teams get unstuck.

Let's get started. Where will you go next?

Believe it or not, my formal education is in Theatre and Psychology. But it works: to solve product problems, we need engaged people.

My ✨secret sauce✨ is a blend of sharp thinking, active listening, quick synthesis, enthusiastic storytelling, attention to detail, and relationship-building to catalyze great ideas, uncover insights and opportunities, and help product teams get unstuck.

Let's get started. Where will you go next?

let’s make it happen

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WORK PERSONALITY

k8@work

Who am I, really?
What's it like to work with me?

Here are a few details about my personality that tend to shine through in my day-to-day work life.

I love to:
• Influence and streamline product ops and processes to find better ways to work
• Work with empowered teams of folks who really know their stuff; trusting team members and colleagues to do their own thing well is huge for me
• Craft pitches for big bets, facilitate hard conversations between stakeholders to make decisions, and celebrate big wins

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Here are a few details about my personality that tend to shine through in my day-to-day work life.

The Predictive Index: The Maverick - Natural Leaders

Innovative, influential, daring, and direct
Wants to achieve what's never been achieved before
Not a fan of the status quo and will shake things up
Thrive with goals and freedom to determine tactics

Mavericks love groundbreaking products and inspiring teams to grow.

Take the PI Behavioral Assessment here.

Enneagram Type 3w4: The Professional Innovator & Achiever

Energetic, confident, competitive and motivational
Ambitious, goal-oriented, diligent and dependable
Values introspection and creative self-expression
Strives to connect socially with others
Driven by sense of purpose and desire to make meaningful impact
Seeks growth opportunities for continuous improvement

Famous 3w4s: Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé

Find your enneagram type and wing here.

DISC (Drive/Dominance, Influence, Support, Clarity)

Drive/Dominance x Influence (Di) - The Initiator & Achiever

A confident, natural leader eager to own direction and decisions
Pursues large, ambitious goals with speed and bursts of intensity
Results-oriented, unafraid to take action and competitive risk
Challenges status-quo with innovative thinking
Thrives on change, excitement, enthusiasm, and spontaneity

Famous Di Types: Steve Jobs, Meryl Streep, Muhammad Ali

Find your DISC style here.

StrengthsFinder: Nearly all within the Influence Domain

Purpose, energy, and passion to inspire change
Will storm fearlessly into the unknown and rally others to a cause
Motivated to get themselves and their teams to the top

Top Strength: Activator

Catalysts who get things started, make things happen
Contagious, engaging energy and momentum
Can naturally turn ideas into actions
Love to take advantage of opportunities others miss
Pursues large, ambitious goals with speed and bursts of intensity

Famous Activator: Richard Branson

Take the StrengthsFinder quiz here.

StrengthsFinder: Nearly all in the Influence Domain

Purpose, energy, and passion to inspire change
Will storm fearlessly into the unknown and rally others to a cause
Motivated to get themselves and their teams to the top

Top Strength: Activator

Catalysts who get things started, make things happen
Contagious, engaging energy and momentum
Can naturally turn ideas into actions
Love to take advantage of opportunities others miss
Pursues large, ambitious goals with speed and bursts of intensity

Famous Activator: Richard Branson

Take the StrengthsFinder quiz here.

Branding Card Deck Exercise - Self Assessment
This helps companies and products identify their key descriptors.

I am: Optimistic, Clever, Opinionated, Intuitive, and Approachable
I am NOT: Ordinary, Subtle, or Quiet.

Guess what?
I have the card deck and can run the exercise with you!

k8 IN REAL LIFE

k8 in Real Life

when I'm AFK
(away from keyboard) …

You can find me somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife Zoë and my black lab puppy Cosmo. I still love theatre and live music, I've been known to tap-it-back at Soulcycle studios, I love to travel, and I'm pretty into houseplants, video games, matcha lattes and smoky mezcal cocktails.

My favorite tv show will probably always be LOST - and recently I've been super jazzed about the new NWSL team BayFC! #BLegendary

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creativity, curiosity, passion & productivity ✨

creativity, curiosity, passion & productivity ✨

creativity, curiosity, passion & productivity ✨

k8@work

Who am I, really?What's it like to work with me?

when I'm AFK(away from keyboard) …

🌁 🐕‍🦺 🎭 🎸 🚲 ✈️ 🪴 🎮 🍵 🍹 🏝️ ⚽

Who am I, really?
What's it like to work with me?

when I'm AFK
(away from keyboard) …