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By doing just actions we come to be just; by doing the actions of self-mastery we come to be perfected in self-mastery; and by doing brave actions brave.

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics II, trans. D. P. Chase (Everyman edition)

I studied the classics first, then business. AI I learned by building with it, then helping teach it.

Education and credentials

  • MBA, Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School, 2026, earned while working full time. High Pass in 18 of 23 graded courses; Olin caps High Pass at 20% of a core course.
  • Generative AI for Communicators (MGT 6228), Olin, Summer 2026. I took the course for a grade (High Pass), and the professor recruited me to help build and teach it: I co-developed the workflow-based curriculum and the final project framework, and co-taught two live sessions, on checking AI output and on building repeatable AI workflows.
  • Guest lecture, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, August 2026, to a senior class on growth strategy, with an open invitation to return: "Answers are cheap. The client pays for adoption."
  • Koch Center Own-Operate-Invest Fellow, Koch Center for Family Enterprise, Olin, Fall 2025 to May 2026. My capstone built a way to measure how well a company's operations match its stated values, with a human and an AI model scoring side by side. Paper: "Values-Based Operational Decision-Making: A Practitioner's Framework for Measuring Virtue-Culture Alignment."
  • BA, Saint Louis University, 2018. Double major in Philosophy and Classical Humanities (three semesters each of Latin and Ancient Greek), minor in Marketing.
  • HubSpot certifications: 18 earned across marketing, sales and revenue operations, 8 of them active through May 2027.
  • FAA Remote Pilot certificate (Part 107), earned in 2021.

MBA coursework, Fall 2024 to Summer 2026

  • Summer 2026: Generative AI for Communicators; Communication for Leaders; Corporate Strategy; Foundations of Supply Chain Management; Advanced Corporate Finance I: Valuation.
  • Spring 2026: Managing Operations in a Digital Era; Acquisition Through Entrepreneurship; Financial Management for Value Creation.
  • Fall 2025: Ethical Issues in Managerial Decision Making; Mindfulness and Performance in the Workplace; Strategic and Crisis Communication; Power, Politics and Influence.
  • Summer 2025: Financial Accounting; Managerial Accounting; Marketing; Negotiation.
  • Spring 2025: Economics from the C-Suite Perspective; Consulting Business Models and Value Capture; Strategy for Organizations; Leading Change.
  • Fall 2024: Strategic Decision Making with Data Analytics; Teamwork and Leading Organizations; Venture Capital Methods.

How I learn

Aristotle wrote that people become builders by building and harp players by playing the harp. That's how I learn. What I know best, I learned by doing it for someone: rebuilding a sales process, or helping teach the graduate AI course I was taking for a grade. The knowledge that lasts is the kind I've had to hand to someone else.