About Theresa

I grew up in northwest Montana on two acres of forest land, fifteen miles from the nearest town. One TV channel. My big sister and I spent a lot of time building forts in the woods. Looking back, it was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received. We invented what wasn't there - that's a whole other book. But that instinct, the one that says build what's missing, never went away. It just found bigger rooms.

The Gates Foundation in the early days of the internet. A global law firm in New York. Technology services for hundreds of nonprofits. A consulting practice I built from scratch. More than a decade working with leaders and organizations at inflection points. Fortune 50 executives and small-town librarians. Keynote stages and boardrooms. The settings changed. The work never did. Help people see what they can't yet see. Then figure out what comes next.

Being an educator, from middle school science classrooms to university lecture halls, revealed my gift: making complex ideas clear and useful.

At fifty, I stepped away from a career I’d spent more than two decades building after recognizing what had been at the center of all of it - imagination. Not as a soft skill or a creative luxury. As the defining human competence of this moment.

That realization became The Imagination Age: Reclaiming Your Most Essential Competence.

My husband and I have since imagined our way across continents, designing a life on our own terms. I write, speak, and advise on imagination as a practiced competence. The kind woven into the decisions that shape careers, organizations, and lives.

If you're ready to put imagination to work -