Business Casual is an organizational design company.

I am a mediator, facilitator and a queer person with a Masters in Organizational Change Management. I founded Business Casual because organizations don’t work beautifully by default. After years of working with businesses of all shapes and sizes (on the inside as a salaried employee and as a consultant on the outside looking in) it has become painfully clear to me that traditional HR infrastructure just isn’t up to the job. Whether it’s a restaurant trying to create an inclusive and collaborative culture in a traditionally toxic industry, a start-up committed to scaling its product without grinding its employees to a pulp, or an agency working actively to put money directly in the hands of the local creative economy instead of extracting from it, I am deeply familiar with the kind of support that entrepreneurs fighting the status quo really need.

Every small business owner I talk to thinks they’re in it alone, but they’re not. I’ve found that my calling is to bring people together and create structures that connect the dots between theory and practice. I explore this with my drawing and writing, where I put my thoughts out there in an effort to make complex concepts accessible and connect with others in the process.

I started a company to create a place where people can work differently, together. Business Casual’s slightly tongue-in-cheek name takes aim at the outdated and gendered norms that we aim to deconstruct. I believe that a better world is possible, and that building businesses that work better will pave the way there.