I am a former McKinsey consultant and current strategist working in financial services, and I am intrigued by issues that sit at the intersection of technology, economic development, mobility, and the institutions shaping all three.

A lot of what I care about comes back to economic development and mobility: how people get access to opportunity, how institutions shape that access, and why some forms of growth actually translate into better outcomes while others don’t. I also work with nonprofits on the side, which gives me a very different view of the same questions — often much closer to how policy, funding, institutions, and economic change show up in people’s actual lives.

More recently, I’ve become especially interested in AI because I’m watching its effects from a few different angles at once. In financial services, I’m seeing organizations work through what adoption really means: which tasks change, which roles change, what is deemed valuable, and how people respond when the technology starts touching their day-to-day work. Outside of work, I’m just as interested in the human side — what rapid technological change does to how people think about careers, skills, ambition, security, and their place in the economy.

I consider myself a cross-domain thinker. I like reading across economics, technology, policy, business, behavioural science, and whatever else helps me understand the question in front of me. I’m less interested in staying neatly inside one discipline than in figuring out how the pieces fit together. (Coming to accept this has been quite the journey!)

What in the Work? is basically where I do that out loud: follow questions, connect dots, test ideas, and try to make sense of what this disruption might actually mean for people, organizations, and economies.