Hello…Nice to Meet You

The Short Version

I’m fundamentally interested in how people and organizations change — why it happens when it does, why it doesn’t when it should, and what gets in the way. I’ve been asking that question for most of my professional life, through roles that looked very different on the surface and turned out to be variations on the same research. That curiosity is now my practice.

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Where I’ve Been & How I Got Here

I didn’t come into this work through a traditional path. Before I had the vocabulary for organizational development, I was doing the work — just through different vehicles.

At Habitat for Humanity International, I led a shift from transactional to relational constituent engagement inside a $1B+ global organization. At the Sierra Club, I built a technology-enabled personalization framework grounded in behavioral segmentation — and ran directly into what change resistance looks like when it lives in a leader with identity investment in the status quo. Both experiences taught me things a classroom couldn’t.

I came back to formal learning through a Master of Education in Learning, Leadership, and Organization Development at the University of Georgia — not to start my career in this field, but to put an academic framework around what I’d already been learning from the inside. The M.Ed. gave me language for what I’d been observing for a decade.

Since then I’ve run a leadership development program that produced documented Kirkpatrick Level 3 behavior change outcomes across three cohort years. I’ve designed curriculum from scratch for manufacturing clients, higher education institutions, and national nonprofit organizations. I hold certifications in Executive Change Coaching and LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation. I serve as Co-Chair of the Career and Corporate Training Advisory Council at Pierpont Community and Technical College — a role that keeps me anchored in regional workforce development and connected to the employer landscape I serve.

I currently work through Bailey Learning Works, LLC — designing programs, facilitating sessions, coaching leaders, and assessing what organizations actually need before recommending what to build. The work spans contract engagements, embedded partnerships, and everything in between.

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Who I Am

Outside of work, I’m curious in roughly the same ways — I just apply it to different things.

My wife and I travel whenever we can, and we travel to experience places rather than to check them off a list. The UK, Germany, and Austria keep pulling us back — good food, deep history, and people who take both seriously. There’s usually a long walk involved, often uphill.

Speaking of long walks — I hike, and I bird. Patient, observational, comfortable with not knowing what you’re looking at until you do. I’m also perpetually on the lookout for a bear, which has so far produced only one black bear and a lot of interesting encounters with everything else.

I’ve been working my way through learning electric guitar for a while now, drawn in by the music I grew up with — 70s and 80s heavy metal, the kind that requires more technique than people give it credit for. Being a deliberate beginner at something keeps you honest about what it actually takes to get good at anything.

I cook. I do the New York Times crossword every morning. And I collect bad dad jokes with the same seriousness that other people collect art, which tells you something either about my sense of humor or my standards — I’ll let you decide which.