Home Region
Detroit, MI
Undergrad Education
Kettering University, 2019
Previous Experience
May Mobility, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
HBS Activities
Section C Tech Rep
“One can understand effective leadership with ease, but putting it into practice is humbling.”
Coming to HBS is like…
Getting tossed in the fanciest washing machine on earth with the “heavy duty” and “extra spin cycle” settings selected.
What is your most memorable classroom moment?
I once argued very bluntly against a case protagonist’s marketing practices without realizing that he had joined the class via Zoom… it was definitely too awkward to forget.
What is your favorite childhood memory?
Vacations were non-existent growing up, but my high school’s marching band spent a week at a summer camp in the woods of northern Michigan to learn the show each year. I’ll never forget sitting on the porch of my cabin, closing my eyes, and listening to the wind blow through the pines. For all I knew that was heaven.
What is the best thing about your home town?
Home is all of southeast Michigan for me at this point, and the coolest thing about the region is it's changed the course of world history multiple times but rarely gets any credit. Who was the founding dean of HBS? Edwin Gay from Detroit. Who showed Joseph Stalin how to industrialize the USSR? Henry Ford of Detroit. Who built the planes, tanks, and guns to win WW2? Detroit. Who built the Saturn rockets that took the USA to space? Chrysler, of Detroit. Where was current Harvard President Lawrence Bacow born?! You already know, Detroit!
What has changed about your understanding of leadership?
In a few ways oh so much, but in many more ways nothing at all. One can understand effective leadership with ease, but putting it into practice is a humbling and lonely endeavor. Time will tell what I make of it.