A note from Craig
My resume is my life.
I have my own life journey as a resume, and it evolves with each life experience. I'm now in my third career — the one most in line with who I truly am as a human being.
The first was eight years as a statewide elected official — Commissioner of Labor in North Dakota, from 1990 to 1997. The second was two decades as a global corporate executive: head of HR for AOL Latin America from 1998 to 2003, HR leader at the EA Sports studio that builds Madden NFL from 2003 to 2006, and then global head of government affairs for Electronic Arts from 2006 to 2019, working in national capitols from Washington to Ottawa, London, Stockholm and Brussels. After EA I went entrepreneurial as managing partner of Entango Technologies (2019–2022), and in parallel served as a Senior Partner at Converge Public Strategies in DC and Miami (2019–2023). I moved to Mexico in 2023 thinking I was done.
This third one isn't really a career. It's simply me being me, and sharing what I've learned with people who are interested. In 2025 a close friend — the founder and lead attorney at a law firm — asked for help with the things firms rarely admit to needing. Culture. Performance. The gap between what leadership says and what the organization actually does. One conversation became an engagement. The engagement became Higher Mind Consulting.
I don't lead with credentials anymore. Credentials are too rigid to validate or lend any meaning to what I've actually learned — and most of it didn't happen in a boardroom or on a campaign. It happened in the years between the titles: thousands of miles alone in an RV through the national parks, hard conversations with friends, the slow work of figuring out who I am when I'm not the official or the executive in the room.
What I bring to a client isn't a methodology. It's a perspective most consultants can't offer because they've never left the machine they're advising. I've been the elected official. I've been the corporate operator. I've been the Washington advisor. I've been the entrepreneur. And I've stepped far enough outside of all of it to see the patterns underneath. That distance is the point.