Communicator.
Survivor.
See Them First.
I build trust for a living. In health care, in communities, and on stages. Everything I do traces back to one highway in Southeast Idaho and the people who showed up.
The moment that
changed everything.
When I was 16, a car accident changed everything. My family rolled three times on the highway. My dad was pronounced dead at the scene. A piece of the frame pierced straight through my seat.
The months that followed were harder than the accident. Depression. Guilt. Dark moments I rarely talk about. But people showed up. Not perfectly. Not always on time. They just showed up.
Becki Bronson saw something in me before I could see it in myself. She raised my ceiling. She changed the trajectory of my life.
I carry a photo of that wrecked car in my suit pocket. I look at it when the stakes feel high. It reminds me what real pressure looks like and why showing up for people matters more than anything else.
Built in the
real world.
I am not a speaker who learned communication in a classroom. I learned it in a 110,000-person health system during a global pandemic, at accident scenes in rural Utah, and in the moments that tested everything I thought I knew about trust.
Every framework I teach, I have lived. Every move in SPACE came from a real moment where I had to choose whether to show up or step back. I always try to show up.
That is what See Them First is. It is not a brand. It is a responsibility I carry every single day.
See Them First to your people?