About Kyle

I kept watching the same pattern in meetings: the quiet, brilliant people getting left behind. And everyone burning out—even the ones who looked fine.

I started my career analyzing broken systems as a reporter for CBS TV, and then spent 15+ years leading marketing and communications teams across food, beverage, tech, and more. I've been in thousands of meetings. And I built Doomsday Mode because I was tired of watching talent disappear while we all pretended the system was working.

Here's what people close to me don't always see: I show up in meetings the way you're supposed to. Engaged. Present. Charismatic. Professional. But after back-to-back calls, I crash. Hard. My wife Heather sees it. Our dog Taco sees it. Most colleagues don't—even most friends and family don't, because to be honest, I don't let them. I'd be seen as not cut out for it—when the truth is, the system isn't cut out for humans.

And when meetings never stop—when there's no walk to decompress, no built-in recovery—the people who need those things most just fade out.

We need to change that.

Doomsday Mode is what happens when you stop asking people to adapt to broken systems and start building systems that work for everyone. Hard time limits that actually end meetings. Mandatory breaks that protect energy. AI tools that make sure the loud voices don't always win and the quiet ones get heard—so teams make better decisions.

When meetings are designed with both boundaries and equity built in, brilliant people stay. And people go home as themselves—not as whatever's left after performing all day.

That's the future of work I'm building. And it starts with meetings that don't break people.

Me and Taco