I work with wealth holders who sense their capital can do more - and are ready for a conversation that takes that instinct seriously.
"In transition periods, prediction matters - but architecture matters more. The question is not which future arrives. It is whether your capital is already designed to shape it."
Most wealth holders I work with aren't looking for another fund. They're navigating real questions: aging portfolios, a rising generation with different values, and a world shifting faster than their advisors are acknowledging. I offer the diagnostic and design work that sits upstream of allocation - helping you see what your capital is actually positioned for, and architect it toward what comes next.
Each is designed to meet you where you are - from a first conversation to ongoing strategic partnership.
A focused 90-minute working session to map your capital stack, identify misalignments, and surface where deeper work would matter most.
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Learn more →My advisory work is grounded in a decade of field-building through Dream Tank and the Local Action Blueprint (L.A.B.) - a repeatable civic infrastructure methodology that connects capital frameworks to ground-level systems change. It's the ecosystem where the capital architecture I offer wealth holders is tested and refined. Learn more →
A thought piece on structural risk, conditional participation, and the architecture of resilient capital - prepared for wealth holders and family offices asking the questions that matter for the next decade.
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Why the real threat to long-duration portfolios isn't a market shock - it's the quiet erosion of the participation assumptions every holding depends on. And why it looks, in retrospect, like it happened overnight.
Why concentrating in AI without counterbalancing exposure may be the same structural overreach this paper warns against - just pointing in the opposite direction. With real-world cases.
A practical allocation framework designed for multiple futures simultaneously - with the Transition Offset Portfolio as a design principle for capital that doesn't just hedge against change, but is architected to shape it.
Each engagement is designed to meet you where you are - from a first diagnostic conversation to ongoing capital architecture partnership. No generic ESG products. No pressure. Just the thinking that sits upstream of every allocation decision that matters.
A focused 90-minute working session to map your capital stack, run it through four transition themes, and identify where your money is - and isn't - doing what you want it to. You leave with specific observations and a clear picture of where deeper work would matter most.
Many people find the session itself changes how they think about their next conversations with their advisors.
Ongoing capital architecture support for wealth holders in active transition - navigating liquidity, next-gen engagement, a meaningful portfolio reorientation, or the architecture of a family office that doesn't yet exist but should.
Two calls per month, async access, and the kind of thinking that doesn't show up in a standard advisor relationship. By application - I work with a small number of clients at a time.
The Designing Capital paper takes about 20 minutes to read. Most people who reach out for a session have read it first - and the conversation is better for it.
"I work with wealth holders who sense their capital can do more - and are ready for a conversation that takes that instinct seriously."
I've spent 25 years at the intersection of capital and systems change - raising early funds for Acumen Fund alongside Jacqueline Novogratz, part of an institutional consulting team co-managing a $400M+ portfolio at UBS Wealth Management, and advising family offices and wealth holders on impact alignment and intergenerational wealth strategy.
My systems change work has operated at the level of outcomes, not just influence. I produced the Success 2020 Coalition at the White House, helped launch the Posner Center for International Development alongside Andrew Romanoff - securing its founding gift and organizing the launch event - and have convened leaders in Davos during the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, and beyond - not as a participant, but as the architect of the room
What I offer now is capital architecture - the diagnostic and design work that sits upstream of allocation decisions. I work with a small number of wealth holders and family offices who are asking the questions that matter for the next decade.
The $84 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer is not a future event. It is happening in families, in conversations between parents and children, in portfolios that were built for one world and are now being asked to navigate another.
Most advisors are excellent at the technical work. What they're rarely equipped for is the upstream question: what is this capital actually for, and how do you design it to serve that purpose across generations?
That's the work I do. It draws on 25 years of capital markets experience, a decade of civic innovation practice, and a genuine belief that the people I work with are capable of making their capital a force for the world they want to leave behind.
The Designing Capital paper is the best introduction to how I think. Most conversations start there.
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