People are sometimes surprised to learn that I write fiction.
I am a Director of Environmental Services with 28 years in healthcare. I spend my days thinking about disinfection protocols, staffing assignments, infection prevention, and regulatory compliance. That is the work I love.
And I write novels.
My first, The Emerson Experiment, is a medical thriller about a hospital engineer whose invention is stolen to serve someone else’s agenda. Paperback, Kindle, and audiobook.
I wrote it because leaders who create things understand something that leaders who only manage things do not. The blank page and the empty department have a lot in common. Both require vision, patience, and the willingness to build something before you can see what it will become.
Writing fiction made me a better director. It taught me how to hold complexity, develop people as if they were characters worth understanding, and find the story inside situations that look like problems.
If you have something you have always wanted to create, start. You will be surprised what it teaches you about the work you already do.
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