Speaker · Writer · Photographer · Strategist
I speak and write about the places where identity, culture, power, relationships, ambition, and human behavior overlap.
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Phil grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Florida A&M University on a full academic scholarship, graduating with studies in business administration, finance, and psychology. He began his career at Goldman Sachs in New York before moving into corporate finance leadership in Atlanta, where he worked with Delta Air Lines, iHeartMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal, and Amazon. Most recently, he led financial planning and analysis for Amazon’s worldwide books business.
Since leaving Amazon, Phil has pursued creative work across writing, photography, social media, strategy, speaking, and entertainment. His work is shaped by a life spent moving between boardrooms and barbershops, financial models and film sets, systems thinking and deeply personal storytelling. He has traveled to more than fifty countries, built an audience around his ability to make complex ideas feel human, and worked on the upcoming Netflix miniseries All the Sinners Bleed, based on the novel by S. A. Cosby.
His work lives at the intersection of analysis and empathy, strategy and storytelling, systems and the people navigating them.
Speaking
Phil speaks with clarity, humor, rigor, and emotional honesty about leadership, identity, culture, neurodivergence, power, relationships, creativity, and the systems shaping modern life.
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Essays that bend through psychology, race, capitalism, spirituality, relationships, language, and the contradictions people usually rush past.
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Portraiture and visual storytelling built around presence, dignity, texture, and the moment a person stops posing and begins appearing.
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The work
Essays, photography, long-form video, cultural commentary, creative projects, and whatever question becomes impossible to ignore next.
Speaking · Media · Creative Collaborations
For speaking engagements, interviews, partnerships, photography, and select creative work:
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