About Lee
Hey, I’m Lee.
Strategist, systems thinker, writer, coach, designer, and occasional professional asker of inconvenient questions.
I’m the person behind Rebel Fusion Strategic Advisory. I help people figure things out: decisions, changes, businesses, recurring problems, and those situations where you start explaining one thing and realize halfway through that there are six other things attached.
I’m comfortable with that. It’s usually where we find something useful.
A different starting point
I want to know what’s actually going on.
What happened before the thing we’re looking at? What’s keeping it going? What assumptions are underneath it? Who else does it affect? And if we make this change, what happens afterward?
Those are the kinds of questions I ask.
Sometimes the problem we’ve named is only the most visible part. A business might have a messy workflow and an owner who has become the emergency backup for every damn thing. Improving the workflow helps. We also need to look at how the owner ended up carrying all of it.
The same goes for personal decisions. You can make a perfectly reasonable plan that overlooks your responsibilities, resources, or what you actually want. It can look magnificent on paper while making your Tuesday miserable.
I’m interested in the work underneath the work: the structures, habits, beliefs, and relationships shaping what’s happening. Once we understand those, we can stop repeatedly patching the same symptoms and find a more useful place to begin.
The person behind the work
Apparently, I like complicated things.
I started coaching in 2003, but the thread running through my work goes back much further.
I served as a cryptologist in the U.S. Navy, studied graphic and web design, earned a doctorate in metaphysics, trained in tax preparation, and spent nearly twenty years in interfaith ministry. I’ve built businesses, designed websites and technology, worked in construction and operations, and written books and essays. Along the way, I’ve worked with people navigating everything from business growth to major life transitions.
On paper, that’s a biography with several side quests. To me, the connection has always been pretty clear: I want to understand how things work, how they affect people, and what we can do when they stop working.
I draw on all of it. The situations people bring me rarely have the courtesy to stay inside one specialty.
My life comes into the work, too.
I’m a mom to four adult children, a grandmother, and engaged to Rachel. My family and the woman I’m building a future with are part of how I think about love, responsibility, time, and what I want my life to hold.
So when I say your work exists inside your life, that includes mine.
I have people I love, commitments I care about, and plans that have to coexist with circumstances I don’t always get to choose. I know the experience of being capable of handling something and still wondering whether I want it to become my responsibility.
That question deserves some room.
You can care deeply about your work and want time with your family. You can want to build something ambitious and also want a life you enjoy living. You can be good at something and decide you’re done doing it.
We can talk about all of that. It helps us understand what a workable direction actually looks like for you.
Faith is part of how I see the world.
Faith is the backbone of my practice. It shapes how I understand human dignity, purpose, responsibility, and the care we take with our lives and resources.
My years as an interfaith minister have given me room to explore those questions with people whose beliefs and experiences vary. Bring yours, including the doubts and questions you’re still sitting with.
Spiritual discernment sits alongside practical inquiry in my work. We can talk about what you feel called toward and what pursuing it would ask of you. We can explore a sense that something is wrong, then look closely at what’s happening.
Intuition often gives me a question to follow or a connection to examine. I’ll bring it into the conversation so we can consider it together.
And yes, we can discuss purpose while looking at the budget. The bills tend to participate whether invited or not.
And when I’m not working?
I love music, cats, cars, baseball, writing, and spending time with the people I love. I’m a lifelong tech person, and I can happily spend hours talking about strategy or spiritual questions.
Coffee is a recurring character in all of this.
I’m drawn to questions that keep opening up as you explore them. That curiosity runs through my advisory work and my writing, including my newsletter, What’s Next.
If you’d like to get a feel for how I think before working together, that’s a good place to start.
What guides the work
Why Rebel Fusion?
Because I’m willing to question the usual approach, and I draw from more than one place to figure out what might work better.
“That’s just how it’s done” tends to make me curious. Especially when the way it’s done is exhausting everyone and producing results nobody wants.
Strategy, systems, human behavior, intuition, spiritual discernment, and practical experience all inform my work. Each helps me see something about the situation. Together, they give us more to work with.
The name has been explaining the approach all along.
What it’s like to work with me.
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We’ll talk like people.
You can think out loud, lose your train of thought, correct yourself, or tell me there’s a part you haven’t explained yet. You can disagree with me, too. I’d much rather hear what I’m missing than have us build a plan around a polite misunderstanding.
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We’ll take a closer look.
I’ll listen closely, ask questions, and share what I see. Sometimes I’ll challenge an assumption. Sometimes I’ll ask you to follow a possible decision a little further: “Okay, and then what?”
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We’ll probably laugh.
Being human gets ridiculous, and complicated situations have a way of producing moments you couldn’t make up.
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You’ll get candor and curiosity.
You can expect candor, curiosity, and practical attention to your circumstances. I take you seriously. I’m also willing to call bullshit when an expectation, assumption, or supposedly sensible plan deserves it.
The goal is to help you understand what you’re dealing with and find a direction you can actually use.
Meet Renn
And then there’s Renn.
Meet Renn, RFSA’s resident question-asker, assumption-poker, and occasional coffee guardian. He’s our Rebel Dragon, usually found studying a map, investigating something everyone else has accepted as obvious, or considering whether “we’ve always done it this way” is really the argument you want to make.
He’s a little reminder of how we work around here: stay curious, follow the connections, and leave room for a different possibility. Preferably with coffee.
Start where you are
Tell me what’s going on.
Bring the decision, the change, the idea, or the situation that needs a closer look. You don’t have to have the whole thing figured out before we talk.
