Notes on faith, resilience, and second chances
Reflections from two decades of leading through adversity, and what it built.
What Organ Donation Taught Me About Leadership
I've led teams through system migrations, audits, and vendor failures. None of it taught me as much about leadership as being on an operating table, twice, with no guarantee I'd wake up.
5 Organs, One Second Chance: The Story Behind Against the Odds
In 2007, I crashed on the operating table during a liver transplant. I was gone for three and a half minutes before doctors brought me back. That should have been the hardest thing I ever went through. It wasn't. It was the first one.
The Pillars of Resilience: A Framework for Getting Through What You Didn't Choose
"Resilience" gets used so often in corporate training that it's started to lose meaning. I understand why people are skeptical of the word. I was too, until it stopped being a concept I taught and became something forced on me, twice.
What to Expect When You Book Phillip Hanks
Booking a speaker you have not worked with before comes with real questions. Here is exactly what working with me looks like, from the first call to the day of the event.
My Story God's Glory: A Testimony for Anyone Who Feels Out of Chances
In 2007, I was clinically gone for three and a half minutes on an operating table. In 2021, I faced one of the rarest surgeries in the country. I do not tell this story as medicine. I tell it as testimony.