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I work with organizations, institutions, and audiences that are thinking seriously about land, design, culture, and the decisions that shape what endures.
My background spans professional landscape design, publishing and editorial leadership, media, education, and institutional strategy. Across those domains, my work focuses on one core question:
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How do we make better decisions about the places we shape — and why does that matter now?
Periods of change demand clarity — about values, direction, and what truly matters next.
Advisory work focuses on helping organizations align design, strategy, and communication with long-term goals. This often sits between vision and execution, supporting leadership teams as they navigate relevance, growth, stewardship, and public trust.
This work often includes:
My current role with the American Horticultural Society includes revitalizing a legacy publication, guiding licensing and brand partnerships, and helping reposition the organization for relevance and reach in a changing cultural landscape.
Engagements range from short-term advisory to focused strategic projects or longer-term collaboration.
Advisory work focuses on helping organizations align design, strategy, and communication with long-term goals. This often sits between vision and execution, supporting leadership teams as they navigate relevance, growth, stewardship, and public trust.
This work often includes:
- Strategic direction and positioning
- Editorial and content leadership
- Program or product development
- Audience growth rooted in substance, not hype
- Translating mission into clear public-facing action
My current role with the American Horticultural Society includes revitalizing a legacy publication, guiding licensing and brand partnerships, and helping reposition the organization for relevance and reach in a changing cultural landscape.
Engagements range from short-term advisory to focused strategic projects or longer-term collaboration.
Ways We Can Work Together:
Design shapes how places function, how communities endure, and how institutions earn trust over time.
These talks explore design as a decision-making practice — not decoration — drawing connections between landscapes, culture, leadership, and long-term responsibility. Grounded in real projects and lived experience, they’re designed to provoke clearer thinking and more intentional action.
Common themes include:
Formats include keynotes, panels, and moderated conversations for conferences, public gardens, universities, hospitality groups, and mission-driven organizations.
These talks explore design as a decision-making practice — not decoration — drawing connections between landscapes, culture, leadership, and long-term responsibility. Grounded in real projects and lived experience, they’re designed to provoke clearer thinking and more intentional action.
Common themes include:
- Design and how a place learns to be itself — not a copy of somewhere else.
- Landscapes as civic infrastructure
- Stewardship, resilience, and long-term thinking
- How culture, ecology, and place intersect
- What gardening reveals about leadership, patience, and responsibility
Formats include keynotes, panels, and moderated conversations for conferences, public gardens, universities, hospitality groups, and mission-driven organizations.
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Speaking & Keynotes
Advisory & Consulting Work
Board & Leadership Roles
Strong institutions require governance rooted in long-range thinking and care for the public good.
Board and senior advisory roles draw on my:
Particular interest lies in organizations where land, education, culture, and stewardship intersect.
Board and senior advisory roles draw on my:
- Deep subject-matter expertise
- Proven creative and editorial leadership
- Systems thinking from a technical background
- Public-facing credibility and communication skills
- Experience across landscape design, publishing, media, and nonprofit leadership
Particular interest lies in organizations where land, education, culture, and stewardship intersect.
Writing has been central to my work for more than fifteen years — as a way to clarify thinking, test ideas in public, and help shape conversations around design and land.
I’m the author of Cultivating Garden Style (Timber Press) and have contributed to and collaborated on multiple books, including works with Rosemary Alexander and others.
I’m open to select writing projects, essays, and collaborations that align with my focus and values.
I’m the author of Cultivating Garden Style (Timber Press) and have contributed to and collaborated on multiple books, including works with Rosemary Alexander and others.
I’m open to select writing projects, essays, and collaborations that align with my focus and values.
Writing & Media
My essays and articles have appeared in:
- American Gardener
- Martha Stewart
- Better Homes & Gardens
- Leaf Magazine
- Apartment Therapy (The Gardenist)
- Design New England
- Landscape Middle East
- Water Environment & Technology
- Design New England
- PITH + VIGOR
- & other publications
Extensive on-air experience as a design and gardening expert, including nearly six years as a live, national broadcast personality on HSN, where clarity, credibility, and real-time audience engagement were essential.
Additional work includes personality-driven and instructional media for brands and publications such as Troy-Bilt and Better Homes & Gardens — translating design, plants, and place into accessible, visually compelling stories across formats.
On Camera Work
Teaching has been one way I’ve tested and refined my thinking.
The Garden Design Lab distills a design approach developed over 25+ years — helping people learn how to read land, make intentional decisions, and design places that improve over time.
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If you’re exploring thoughtful leadership, advisory work, or collaboration around design, stewardship, and institutional change, I’m open to conversation.