Author · Speaker · Explorer of Meaning
I explore how meaning emerges through gathering, kairos moments, and the people, ideas, and things we choose to support.
What People Say About Scott
Hello
I’m Scott. During my career I created the experiences that brought people together in their work, their community, and their lives — and I loved it. Now I explore the broader question of how else they find meaning.
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Acts of Humanity:
The Power of Purposeful Events
Why gathering remains one of the most fundamental human acts — and why purposeful experiences still matter in an increasingly digital world.
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The Blog
Short essays on meaning, gathering, kairos moments, stories, and the things we choose to support.
Read all essays →Scott’s journey: from global events to meaningful gatherings
Let me start the way I would if you had wandered in and we had not yet met. I’m Scott. For most of a career I built the experiences where people come together, and I loved every creative, engaging, high-pressure minute of it. I came up through two of the great experience agencies, Jack Morton...
The More Digital Life Becomes, the More Human Gathering Matters.
At the same time everyone is talking about artificial intelligence replacing, accelerating, summarizing, generating, automating, or reshaping knowledge work, a global business-events company is being sold for about $1.8 billion. That is worth sitting with for a moment. The Financial Times reported that Hyve, a major organizer of business events, is being sold to Hellman...
Essay 4.11 | Footprints in the Sand
A badge in a drawer. A wristband kept for years. A program someone cannot quite throw away. A smell, a phrase, a song—and suddenly the whole gathering comes back. Every event ends. The lights come up. People drift toward rideshares, airports, hotel elevators, inboxes, school pickups, and the ordinary gravity of life. The venue resets....
Essay 4.10 | How Did We Do?
One post-COVID virtual event reached more people at far less cost than its in-person predecessor. On paper, that looked efficient. More reach, lower spend, easier access. The spreadsheet seemed happy. Then the people it was built for said it “sucked, sucked!” That phrase matters because it cuts through the temptation to measure only what is...
If You Ask People to Gather, It Better Be “Freaking Great”.
The 2026 World Cup has not yet begun, and already one of its stories is about what it costs to be there. Reuters reported that the attorneys general of New York and New Jersey subpoenaed FIFA over ticketing practices for matches at MetLife Stadium, including concerns about seat categories, high prices, and dynamic pricing. The...
Essay 4.9 | Barnacle Events
At Dell World, Brocade became known for throwing the party everyone really wanted to attend. Eventually, the party became so popular that it had to become a “whisper party,” because the official host understandably did not love watching people slip away from the sanctioned program to go somewhere more exciting. That is a barnacle event....
Essay 4.8 | Scarcity
There is never enough money, space, or time. There is, however, a nearly unlimited supply of ideas and demands. Everyone has something they want added: another session, another reception, another sponsor benefit, another feature, another city, another speaker, another dinner, another moment that feels indispensable to them.That is why scarcity is one of the central...
Essay 4.7 | Proactive & Reactive
Bill Gates was on stage demonstrating Windows 98 when the machine crashed into the now-legendary Blue Screen of Death. You can feel the room in the video. The moment lands, the audience reacts, and everyone knows something has gone wrong in public. Then Gates smiles and says, “We’ll fix that bug before we ship.” The...