STRATEGY | CAPITAL | STORY
Your mission moves people. Your revenue doesn't move with it.
You have no shortage of great stories in your mission, and everyone tells you so. What's missing is the bridge between the room that was moved and the person who signs the check. That bridge doesn't just happen. It gets built.
I find what's getting in the way then help build the strategy, relationships, and next steps that turn a moved room into growth that compounds.
THE DIAGNOSTIC
THREE PLACES WHERE GROWTH LEAKS OUT
It's usually not the story.
It is one of these three.
LEAK ONE
The Ask
LEAK TWO
The Relationship
LEAK THREE
The Follow-Through
“Support our work” isn't a real ask. The person who can write the big check is being asked to feel something, when what they want is to be asked to do a thing only they can make possible, and why it matters now.
The right people aren't close enough to the work. Major commitments rarely come from a single great night. They come from trust built before the room, and relationships that continue long after it.
The room was moved. Then nothing happened. Emotion has a half-life. Without a clear next step, an owner, and someone driving it forward, the moment passes and the opportunity goes with it.
FIXED BY → BRAND AND STORY
FIXED BY → DEVELOPMENT
FIXED BY → STRATEGIC PROJECTS
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
CLOSE THE LEAKS SO GROWTH CAN COMPOUND
Each leak is fixable.
The hard part is seeing which one you have.
CLOSING LEAK ONE
Brand and Story
I make the ask worth saying yes to, getting the story, the opportunity, and the ask into the same room so the right person understands what only they can make possible.
CLOSING LEAK TWO
Development
We'll build the relationships together, identifying the people who can materially change what's possible, then create a deliberate path from interest to trust to commitment.
CLOSING LEAK THREE
Strategic Projects
Turn the moment into movement. I give the opportunity to an owner, a next step, and a deadline, then stay with it until something actually happens.
24 years
Running my own P&L through three
economic shocks
$200-400 million
Estimated commitments at major-donor events whose films I worked on
$100K+
Net-income turnaround while cutting overhead 15% in 18 months
2.5 million
Copies of a #1 New York Times bestseller carrying a product I oversaw
WHERE THIS ALL STARTED
4:Minute.Media began with a camera and a dream. 99 countries. Decades of making things in refugee camps, disaster zones, donor rooms, and boardrooms. But the work is evolving into everything the camera taught me. I'm still a photographer and a filmmaker. I'm just spending more time in a different chair now.
PHOTOGRAPHY
FILM
FINE ART
THE NEXT STEP
LET'S TALK DIRECTLY
Good organizations rarely need rescuing. They just need to move forward again.
If your organization is genuinely good at what it does, but you're not sure what comes next, that is the conversation I want to be in with you.
I'll ask a lot of questions, and we'll figure out where the growth is getting stuck, whether it be story, relationships, follow-through, or something else, and what needs to move next.
No long report or consulting/coaching theater. Just a clear look at what is in the way and what we can do about it to get to growth, compounded.