Work inside the real problem
Leadership, coaching, and building happen alongside consequential product and AI work, not in a separate program.
About Dave
Product leadership from inside the work.
Dave steps in as the product leader when a company needs one, strengthens product teams and leaders already in place, and builds AI into how product work happens.
Small companies may need an accountable product leader while they prepare for a permanent hire. Larger organizations may already have product leadership and need stronger teams or a shared AI-enabled way of working. Dave works at either depth without separating the advice from the work itself.
His path from chemistry and law to analytics, product management, and AI shaped how he works: crossing boundaries, translating between disciplines, and helping teams move when executives, product, technology, analytics, and customers see the problem differently.
Dave spent five years accountable for product outcomes inside operating companies, leading product, design, and AI at Shipwell and leading product at Cargill's AI Hub. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.
How Dave works
Work alongside the team. Build capability that lasts.
The role is sized to the need while important work keeps moving.
Match the role to the situation
Dave can step in as the product leader, coach the leaders already in place, or build alongside a team. The role changes with the need.
Leave capability behind
The goal is stronger judgment, practical working habits, and reusable tools that continue after the engagement ends.
Build toward a capable handoff.
When Dave holds a leadership seat, the work includes building the operating rhythm, documenting the reasoning, developing the people already there, and preparing the permanent leader to start with context.
Selected experience
Built from inside the work.
Dave's perspective comes from leading teams and building products inside operating companies, then bringing those lessons into coaching, consulting, teaching, and facilitation.
Venture-backed SaaS
Product, design, and AI at Shipwell
Dave led product, design, and AI inside a logistics technology company, working where product strategy, delivery, team development, and applied AI meet.
Fortune 15 enterprise
Product leadership at Cargill's AI Hub
Dave led product at Cargill's AI Hub, working across product, technology, analytics, and business teams to move AI opportunities toward useful products and repeatable practices.
Cross-industry perspective
Experience across complex organizations
His work spans Cargill, Shipwell, U.S. Bank, Mayo Clinic, Medtronic, TigerRisk, and Ecolab, from large enterprises to venture-backed SaaS.
Start with the situation
Have a product or AI problem that needs a clearer next move?
You do not need a finished project brief. Bring the situation, and we can determine whether there is a useful way to work together.
Author and educator
Data Storytelling and Translation
Dave wrote Data Storytelling and Translation, a practical guide to bridging the gap between numbers and narratives so evidence becomes understandable, relevant, and useful to the people making decisions.
At the Carlson School of Management, he teaches digital product management and business analytics, connecting classroom concepts to the realities of building products and leading teams.