Leading Change in the Era of AI

A collection of love letters to humanity.

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There are places where life feels most alive: at the edge of a forest before the clearing, at the shoreline where land dissolves into sea, at the threshold where the known leans toward the unknown. I have always been drawn to these places. I call it the “Theory of the Edges.” And ever since I was a child, I attuned to the sensation of standing at the precipice and feeling insignificant and in awe in the presence of vastness. An opening perhaps. An ending alike.

I answer the songs of the sweeping edges, ones like the Cliffs of Moher. They are not comfortable, they are weathered and worn, but they are where our vision lives. And where our vision whispers.

My first book, EVERWARD: A Poetry Collection, was but a whispered song of longing and healing—echoing off the sea swept, cosmically-kissed cliffs of consciousness. A rhythmic manifest to make worlds where people could go to rest and remember.

My second book, Leading Change in the Era of AI, is born from that same impulse, but forged in a different fire, whose embers burn brighter. This fire sparks silicon from the friction of a world racing into technological transformation and tragedy. To the tune of seven trillion dollars. It is a book for leaders and seekers who feel the wind of acceleration at their backs, furling their brows singed by the coming conflagration, and yet refuse to forget the sound and sense of their own humanity. Their own heartbeat. Amidst the harkening of haptics.

Love Letters (Back) To Ourselves

What is artificial and what is intelligent? In asking we find ourselves yet again along the edges of choice and craft. Only this time, the edges are not margins to avoid. They are meeting grounds—between human creativity and manufactured intelligence, between the hard lines of systems and the soft contours of story. It is ours to tell…still.

It is here that Edgewalkers dwell: those who sense what is coming, who bridge worlds without code-switching, who hold vision not with any more certainty but firmly as the grip of a lantern in the dark. I have always been a bit of lamplighter in this world, holding the lantern for others in the dark. And two and a half years ago, when I saw the widespread proclamation of the power of this technology, I found myself compelled to write. Nonstop.

Every word was my attempt at trying to keep the lantern from going out as humanity walked deeper and deeper into the cave of kaleidoscopes. The further we crept, the more challenging it became to remember the source (of divine light), always distracted by the refraction. The spectrum. The silicon. You see, cracks in the mirror play tricks on the mind…and heart.

This month, the same week my second book was published, I was honored to be featured in the Edgewalker Facilitator Spotlight, where the theme was Vision. My path as an Edgewalker is one of bridging boardrooms and poetry circles, algorithms and ancestors, efficiency and presence. And my work lives at those seams. It is from those seams the sentences flowed and the book was born. It is no longer mine. It is the world’s collection of love letters back to humanity.

What This Book Offers

Leading Change in the Era of AI is not a manual, but a mirror.
It reflects back the questions that matter most in these moments:

• How do we design and lead change that uplifts essence instead of erasing it?

• Where do we draw the line between what machines can do and what humans must never relinquish?

• What handmade, human-touched, deeply authentic things are calling us home right now? How do we answer the love letters our future selves are writing?

This is not a book of answers, but an invitation to walk awake into the coming era. Eyes wide open, discerning the source light from the refractory.

Book Cover for Leading Change in the Era of AI

A Call To Lead at the Edge

Every one of us stands at a threshold. The temptation is to sleepwalk— to let the pace of change carry us along. But there is another way: to walk the edge with intention. To breathe. To look outward with vision and inward with presence. To listen to your heartbeat. To learn from the heartbreak.

The edge is precarious, yes. But it is also where the horizon opens widest. It is where the first light of renaissance breaks. My hope is this book breaks you open.

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This is the offering of my second book: a lantern for the edge, a reminder that no algorithm can craft the heartbreak or the hope of being human.

May we walk forward together—awake, attuned, and unafraid of the edges.

✨ From poetry to transformation, from EVERWARD to now—this is the next chapter of my journey. Thank you for reading, reviewing, sharing and supporting.

👉 Leading Change in the Era of AI is available now on Amazon.