Startup Executive, Advisor, and Author

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Nearing three decades in tech, from engineer to executive, now advisor and author. Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Roblox. Chief Operating Officer at Instrumental. Advisor to teams in entertainment, gaming, social, enterprise, and the non-profit sector.

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Unlock Entrepreneurial Impact Through Exceptional Leadership

Entrepreneurial teamwork is one of the most impactful, rewarding, and fun things we can do together, but it is too often derailed by uninformed, misinformed, or just plain bad leadership.

When entrepreneurial teams are aligned, creatively unleashed, and continuously leveling up, they move faster and achieve greater impact.

My mission is to help leaders build high-performing entrepreneurial teams—teams that disrupt the status quo through creativity, innovation, and problem-solving.

Book

Impact: How to Inspire, Align, and Amplify Innovative Teams

Book cover of Impact: How to Inspire, Align, and Amplify Innovative Teams by Keith V Lucas

Most leaders today have earned their roles through subject matter expertise, a capacity for impact, and innate leadership skills—the star engineer turned manager or the rising scientist turned lab director. This initially takes leaders far, but team performance ultimately hits a wall when leaders lack team-building expertise. 

Impact helps leaders build engines of innovation in the behaviors they cultivate and the people they hire, develop, and retain. It’s written from the trenches, and it presents an end-to-end guide to building entrepreneurial teams.

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Advising

From Vision to Velocity

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Drawing on my experience up and down the people stack, from engineer to executive, and across a range of startups and organizational disciplines, I help leaders level up their skills, their teams, and their impact. I advise across product, growth, people, and culture. 

My goal is to help teams level up through a no-nonsense substantive engagement where I get in, have impact, and get out of the way—my goal is your success.

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