Ideas in development

The Workshop

“Every finished framework, publication, and program begins as a question.”

The Workshop is a living collection of ideas in development. It is where curiosity becomes research, research becomes frameworks, frameworks become systems, and systems become meaningful organizational change. Unlike the rest of this site, the work presented here is intentionally unfinished.

Innovation rarely happens in a single moment.

It emerges through observation, reflection, experimentation, conversation, and continuous refinement. Some ideas here will evolve into publications. Some will become books. Some will grow into consulting engagements, curriculum, or research studies. Others may simply remain questions worth exploring.

This collection exists because the most useful ideas are rarely born finished, they are built, tested, and refined in the open.

Inside the Workshop

Six rooms, all in motion

3 active threads

Research Notebook

Current research questions, literature reviews, annotated readings, and emerging ideas, captured as they form.

In the notebook now

  • Diminishing the Black Voice: AI & Black Vernacular
  • AI and Organizational Learning
  • Leadership Through Systems Thinking
Drafting

Framework Drafts

Early versions of new leadership, learning, and organizational models, before they are formalized and published.

On the workbench

  • Successor models to OASIS & TRACE
  • A capability-building decision model
  • Governance patterns for change
In progress

Book Development

Working titles, chapter outlines, excerpts, research notes, and writing progress for books still taking shape.

Currently writing

  • Systems that let people thrive
  • Field notes from organizational change
  • Outlines & selected excerpts
Always growing

Design Sketches

Whiteboard diagrams, system maps, governance models, workflow concepts, and visual thinking made tangible.

Recent sketches

  • System maps & service blueprints
  • Governance & decision-rights models
  • Workflow & operating concepts
Experimenting

AI Experiments

Explorations of how generative AI can strengthen organizational learning, project management, literacy, workforce development, and knowledge management.

Probing questions

  • AI for knowledge management at scale
  • Literacy & workforce applications
  • Preserving human thinking, not replacing it
Open questions

Questions Worth Pursuing

Complex questions that continue to shape my thinking, the ones without easy answers.

Currently sitting with

  • How do organizations create conditions where people consistently thrive?
  • What role should AI play in preserving, not replacing, human thinking?
  • How do we design systems that build capability rather than dependency?

What's Next

On the horizon

Upcoming research, speaking topics, collaborations, pilot projects, and initiatives currently under development.

Research

New studies entering design, including the next phase of the AI & Black Vernacular work.

Collaborations

Partnerships with organizations willing to test ideas in the real world.

Pilots

Small, deliberate experiments that turn frameworks into practice.

Why share unfinished work?

Meaningful ideas become stronger when they are challenged, refined, and informed by diverse perspectives.

An invitation, not a finished page

The Workshop reflects an ongoing commitment to learning, curiosity, and thoughtful experimentation. It's an invitation to explore not only what has been built, but what is still becoming.