“Operational Excellence consultant by day, professional game master by night. Same philosophy, human-centered systems that actually work.”
I spend my days diagnosing why enterprise processes and tools stop delivering the value they promised, usually for organizations that thought AI or a new system would fix things and found out it doesn't fix people or process. My work sits at the intersection of change, courage, and opportunity.
I spend my nights running immersive tabletop RPG campaigns for paying players at Off The Map Games. It sounds like a hobby, but it's actually the same discipline in a different room: reading a group, adapting on the fly, and building systems (narrative or organizational) that hold up under real pressure.
Tabletop RPGs are also one of the most slop-resistant creative spaces out there. Improvised, collaborative storytelling around a table is hard to automate and even harder to fake, which makes running games a genuinely interesting vantage point on how AI is and isn't changing creative work. Mostly, though, I just find it really, really fun.
I've been on the guest side of the mic too. I recently appeared on Creatives Prevail, and I co-host my own podcast reviewing immersive tabletop games.
Operational excellence and why enterprise AI rollouts stall
Running a "slop-resistant" creative business in the age of AI
What tabletop RPGs teach about facilitation and reading a room
Agency & Aftermath explores how systems are designed to respond, whether you're building a solution together at a table or coordinating complex decisions across a distributed team. Click to read Agency and Aftermath, by Larry Cummings, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.
