The Science, Applied.
The book gives you the map.
The training is where you walk it.
Three self-paced programs built specifically for GIS professionals who are ready to move from technical expert to trusted strategic leader.
Come ready to work — you will leave each program with frameworks, tools, and finished drafts you can use in your organization immediately.
The Consultant's View — What Really Breaks GIS Programs
Two of the most respected consultants in the GIS field sit down to talk about the pattern they see repeating in organization after organization — and why the technical work is almost never the problem.
Leading Through the Transition — When Your Role Is Being Rewritten
A candid conversation about what it looks like to lead a GIS program when the technology, the organization, and your own role are all changing at the same time.
Would They Give You the Last $10,000?
Recorded live at the Esri User Conference in San Diego. Two GIS leaders with a combined 60+ years of navigating organizational politics in government talk about executive support, budget defense, and the elevator pitch that changed everything.
Why I Started Fireside Chat
The book is one part of the answer. The community is another. Fireside chat is the third.
Because leadership is not something you learn from a chapter or a course. It is something you absorb from being close to people who have been through it. The conversations that mattered most in my own career were not the ones in classrooms. They were the ones over coffee. In hallways. On the phone at 9 PM after a meeting that did not go the way I hoped.
Fireside chat is that conversation, made public.
Every guest is someone I have learned from personally. Every episode is a conversation I would want to have on a hard day. And every one is designed for the GIS leader who is doing the work now — not the one who has already made it through.
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Is there someone whose leadership story you would want to hear?
Or a specific challenge you wish more people would talk about openly?
Tell me.
Firechat exists because of the people it serves. If you have a suggestion, I want to hear it.