BALL STATE: DAILY NEWS
All of the articles I was featured in or around while at Ball State University. Winning habits were formed early in my career.
All of the articles I was featured in or around while at Ball State University. Winning habits were formed early in my career.
You clicked. That's the whole point.
Concerts taught me how anticipation, ritual and memory turn attention into identity. Everything I've built since has borrowed from a room full of people waiting for the lights to go down.
Here's what that sounds like.
Fans create meaning with an organisation, not for it. The best brands make room for that ownership instead of managing it.
Oliver, Elliott, Mavis and Graham. Being "Pop" is the best thing I get to be every day — and it reframed everything about what leadership is actually for.
Places are remembered through transitions, service and small surprises — not through the brochure.
The physical chill when something lands. My consultancy is named after it because it's the only marketing metric I've never been able to fake.
In Carmel. Because discovering music alongside other people is still the best argument I know for why physical, communal experience will never fully go away.
Why this is hidden. The best parts of any experience aren't announced. They're placed — and left for the person paying attention to find. A detail in a stadium concourse. A line in a programme nobody had to read. Something that rewards curiosity instead of demanding it.
That's the standard I hold every experience to, so it seemed fair to hold this one to it too.
If you found this, you'd probably be good to work with.
"Each day, we get to choose our attitude, carry gratitude for the world around us, and boldly choose our adventure."