Hayward, CA

Depends on the time of day.

Food, human and organizational development, and empowering individuals and organizations around the language and tools of finance.

“No one dies from the study of finance.”

“Why are finance and its language of money so important?”

When I experienced a business failure and its impact on the employees, customers, and its stakeholders.

Writing about how food connects cultures.

I would listen to Mozart's and Schubert's piano concertos and Bach.

Detroit in late ’60s and early ’70s.

My non-musical collaboration was collaborating on the sponsoring of the Garrison Project, an initiative to bring together academics integrating sustainability into the education of finance, accounting, and quantitative methods.

Hilary Abel (co-founder of Project Equity), Vanessa Fry (Asst. Director Idaho Policy Institute), and Nils Moe (Managing Director of Urban Sustainability Directors Network).

“How to include sustainability in your finance course: Topics, tools and frameworks that will connect to sustainability, “ a conference presentation, Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Conference, October 2012. ; “The Re-discovery of Organizational Traditions: A Phenomenon for Understanding Roles for Cultural Continuity,” a conference paper and presentation. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2001.; “You can’t always bank on the numbers in organizational assessment,” a symposium, American Psychological Association (APA), August, 2007

My fun one is to research and write a food book about following the culture of the wrapper through Asia. My serious project is to come up with a scalable method to measure and capture the full impact of a social enterprise.