For a solid decade of my career I’ve been fortunate enough to work with and be mentored by someone who both loves and appreciates people and also understands how to do good business. Much of it is simple, obvious stuff, like asking yourself “what’s the right thing to do here?” – even if it means turning down business. But the other part, which is much easier said than done, is to make your employees feel valued, appreciated, and like they are an important contributor to something meaningful, beyond just collecting a paycheck. I’m fortunate to have had the opportunity of both experiencing and helping to build that type of workplace culture, and now want to make it easier for others to create and preserve.

My career has led me to this place. 20+ years ago, I discovered the beautiful combination of creativity, engineering, and collaboration that goes into building software solutions. Since then I have worked largely in the space between executive stakeholders and software teams, with many projects focused on high level visibility into complex business and engineering operations. Industry labels for this include such things as Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Executive Dashboards, Program Management, and Long Range Business Planning. Having used off the shelf products in this space, I see an opportunity for a new approach that helps businesses simplify how they think about and consume their performance indicators, and share information with employees in a way that empowers, enlightens, and aligns.

Having been annoyed by most tools in this space, and experiencing tool fatigue in general at times, one of the primary objectives with our software is to build solutions that aren’t “just another tool.” We do not intend to replace your existing business applications, but rather to provide an interface to useful data in those tools that helps keep everyone out of the weeds, and focused on the mission objectives for your organization.

I’m so excited to be launching CoreUs with a team of my favorite people and a core software architecture that can fit and be customized for any industry, and also has countless opportunities for personal use.