Keynotes on Human Capability | Ability Curve™ & Cognitive High-Variance Optimization
Alignment Determines Performance
Ability isn’t binary. Performance isn’t either.
I speak from lived experience — navigating both physical limitation and ADHD-driven volatility — about what happens when systems are built around the wrong assumptions of human capability.
When we align tasks, tools, and expectations with how people actually operate, performance increases — often dramatically.
ABOUT ME
I’m a West Point graduate, disabled veteran, inventor, and entrepreneur shaped by both physical limitation and ADHD-driven volatility.
My work focuses on alignment — between human capability and the systems we operate inside — grounded in lived experience, not theory alone.
Through my speaking and writing, I explore how ability shifts across age, injury, fatigue, and cognitive wiring—and how better tools, smarter systems, and clearer thinking unlock strength where others see limitation.
Innovating and Operating Through the Ability Curve Model
The Ability Curve is one application of the Alignment Model — focused on physical variability across aging, injury, and fatigue.
Organizations make critical decisions about employees, customers, and users based on flawed assumptions about ability.
This keynote introduces the Ability Curve Model — a practical framework for understanding how performance shifts with age, fatigue, injury, and context — and how smarter design and operations emerge when we plan for human variability.
KEYNOTES
ADHD and the Sherpas of Volatility
The Children of Chaos extends the Alignment Model into cognitive variability — reframing ADHD as specialized wiring in a majority-designed system.
For decades, I interpreted my ADHD wiring as vulnerability — something to suppress, moderate, or fix.
Then I realized something harder: the same volatility that destabilized routine had been stabilizing me in uncertainty. What I thought was weakness was specialization misapplied.
This keynote introduces the Children of Chaos — a reframed understanding of ADHD as minority wiring in a majority-designed world, where amplitude becomes an asset to be valued, nurtured, and strategically placed.
