A sharp, curious take on business, marketing, and leadership—told through personal insights, smart questions, and a creative lens shaped by brand intelligence and cultural curiosity for New Orleans.
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WA&W #68 AI Changed Your Marketing Team. Your 2027 Plan Should Change Too.
I’ve written to you about every week for a while now. This time I wanted you to hear how I actually talk when a CEO asks me what’s wrong. Casey Stanton, founder of CMOx, sat down with me and asked the questions I hear most from energy leade...
WA&W #67 The Marketing Cartoonist Who Turned Doodles Into A CEO Title, And What It Taught Me About Leadership In New Orleans
I scheduled our Google Meet from the Louisiana Leaders “LegisGator” Conference in Lake Charles, having just run into a state representative from a parish of 5,000 people who knew me on sight. That is the whole argument for why I moved my li...
WA&W #66 Four People On Your Team Would Write Four Different 2027 Plans. Your CFO Already Filed Yours Under Expense.
Half the room was in a major metropolitan high rise. The rest were tiles on a Google Meet, dialing in from different locales.
We were closing out the year’s numbers. Every department had a slide. Not one of them had next year on it.
The r...
Meet me in Notes. It's where the New Orleans stuff lives.
I just published my daily musings and insights on Substack Notes, and would love for you to join me there!
I keep a running list on my iPhone of things I notice while exercising around City Park and Bayou St. John in New Orleans that don’t...
WA&W #64 Nobody In That Room Called Themselves A Founder. That Was The Problem.
It’s always busy at the beginning of a semester, but it’s especially busy as Sam McCabe and Farah Wells host WolfPack U Final Pitch Competition this week on September 10th. Find the details at the end of this essay. Sam and Farah enlisted m...
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