Why I Wrote Wired for Purpose
I didn’t write Wired for Purpose because I wanted to tell my life story. I wrote it because after three decades at the intersection of technology, leadership, healthcare, and human behavior, I realized something: in a world sprinting toward AI and automation, humanity is still our biggest differentiator.
This book began as a field manual, not a memoir—something future builders, operators, clinicians, marketers, and innovators could actually use on Monday morning. Throughout my career I’ve lived through every major digital cycle—pre-internet analog days, the earliest websites and email campaigns, social and mobile revolutions, and today’s rise of AI. I kept the receipts: the stories, the experiments, the mistakes, and the rituals that actually helped companies grow and people thrive.
But more than the technology, it was the human patterns that stuck with me:
- gratitude as a leadership operating system,
- connection as a force multiplier,
- calm thinking when the room starts to shake,
- and a long-game mindset that prioritizes legacy over ego.
I wrote this book because those patterns work in any era—but especially in turbulent ones.
I also wrote it because I’ve been lucky to spend my entire career translating across tribes—engineers, scientists, creatives, clinicians, product leaders, and executives. That “cross-tribe translation” is one of the most valuable skills of the next decade, and I wanted to help others develop it intentionally.
Wired for Purpose is my attempt to give people the tools I wish I’d had earlier: one ask to make, one thank-you to send, one experiment to run. Momentum over perfection. Humanity over hype. And purpose as the through-line that makes the whole journey worth it.
Most importantly, I wrote this book as a love letter—to the teams I’ve led, the mentors who shaped me, the family who steadied me, and to the future of healthcare and technology, where the stakes have never been higher.
I wanted to show that leadership doesn’t require a title, innovation doesn’t require permission, and progress doesn’t require perfection. It requires being human on purpose—and doing it consistently.
That’s why I wrote Wired for Purpose. Because I believe the next era belongs to leaders who remember what makes us human…and build from there.