The Five Questions

When you wake up in two or three years, what's genuinely different across all aspects of your life?

At this point in your career, you don't need another destination. You need a direction. A role is a container. A direction is a compass. Without one, every opportunity looks equally possible and equally unsatisfying.

What's the specific way you create your biggest impact, and how do you go about doing it?

Not your job title. Not your function. The actual mechanism. The way you think, challenge, connect, or build that creates something others can't quite replicate. If you can't say it in two sentences, it's working invisibly. That means it's not working as hard as it could.

Can you speak honestly from your edge—the unpolished, unfiltered version of how you actually see things—and use it to create real impact?

Most of us don't realize how much our edge gets sanded down over time—by professional norms, by company expectations, by years of optimizing for credibility. But polish doesn't really create. Edge does. The voice that moves rooms and shifts thinking is not your professional voice. It's the one underneath it.

Is there anything you're building right now that would still exist if you left your company today?

A framework. A body of work. A publication, project, or venture that's yours. This is how your purpose and voice become visible to others—outside the walls of any single organization. If the answer is no, your leverage lives entirely inside someone else's structure. That's not a flaw. It's just exposure. And it's fixable.

Beyond your next role—what are the other shapes your platform could take?

The mistake is to focus on the role only. The leaders who keep building momentum build an ecosystem—multiple pathways that reinforce each other like a flywheel. A role that feeds a body of thinking. A community that opens new rooms. A few pursued with intention become something that compounds in ways a single move never could.