CPA · WRITER · SYSTEMS THINKER · FACILITATOR
I think in wholes.
I work with integrity.
I'm here to restore coherence.
If you need someone who holds the whole picture and works with integrity, you're in the right place. I will always meet you where you are.
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Finance & Systems
Bookkeeping, QBO setup and cleanup, payroll, cash flow projections, budgets and proformas, strategic financial analysis, fractional Controller work, and organizational infrastructure — policies, procedures, decision trees, RACI, MOCHA, job descriptions, and employee handbooks.
Facilitation & Decision Support
Shared reality facilitation for agreements and partnerships, pre-legal alignment, and decision support for anyone facing a significant choice with financial, organizational, or relational consequences. Bringing all the variables into the room and making the implicit explicit.
Writing
Almost Structured on Substack — naming the water, gestalt processing out loud. 86+ essays. The writing that helps you survive is free. The work that invites you into my interior is not.
Also the author of Bewitched Moon: Emergence, a novel about staying coherent while feeling everything.
Candorland
A podcast co-hosted with my husband, Jason Stephens. Candor as harm reduction, with a twist of humor. Coming soon to Patreon.
Different outputs.
Same integrity.
Hi. I'm Chris.
I'm a late-identified twice-exceptional adult. I think in wholes, notice misalignment before I can articulate it, and connect what others keep separate: teams, organizations, systems, ideas. That's not incidental to this work. It's the reason I can see what's breaking before it becomes a crisis.
I bring integrity, deep empathy, and genuine care for the human beings inside every system I touch. That's not a soft add-on. It's the orientation that makes the work worth doing.
When systems start breaking, they hurt the people inside them. An organization whose books don't reflect reality. Two partners who can't hear each other. A structure that was not built for the people it claims to serve. I find where it broke and help restore coherence.
If profit or optics come before people in your hierarchy of values, I'm probably not the right fit, and I'd rather say that plainly than waste either of our time.
The accounting work, the facilitation, the writing, the tools. Different outputs. Same integrity. Same repair work.