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.
Most people learn to think in systems. I never had to. This is just how my mind works. Seeing the whole picture, noticing where things don't cohere, connecting 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.
I do my best work with organizations where profit and people are both taken seriously. Where the numbers inform decisions and the humans inside those decisions are never an afterthought.
The accounting work, the facilitation, the writing, the tools. Different outputs. Same integrity. Same repair work.