ABOUT ERIC
Ambition is not wanting more. It is refusing to inherit a default future.
I’m a professor, author, and researcher who helps ambitious people design what comes next for themselves, their careers, their teams, and their companies.
That work has taken me from Georgetown classrooms and two Inc. 5000 companies to award-winning books—including Super Mentors.
THE SCIENCE OF AMBITION
I study the moment when a possibility becomes real—in a person, a team, or an organization: when someone leaves the expected career to start a company, when an expert decides to write the book only they can write, or when a team stops discussing innovation and begins practicing it.
That question has shaped my work as a professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Georgetown University, where I teach technology innovation, corporate innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, and the people systems that help ideas move. I was named the 2020 USASBE National Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year and Georgetown’s only two-time Entrepreneurship Professor of the Year.
It has also shaped my work as an entrepreneur. I founded Manuscripts to help experts become Modern Authors—turning hard-won experience into books, platforms, and bodies of work. I have founded and built two Inc. 5000 companies, served as Managing Director and Venture Partner at Next Gen Venture Partners, practiced corporate law at Cooley, and worked with founders, investors, universities, and organizations trying to build what comes next.
The work now sits in two connected places: helping ambitious experts unlock the work only they can build, and helping ambitious organizations build Creative Capacity—the ability to imagine, develop, and act on new possibilities.
EDUCATOR
Eric’s courses and programs turn innovation, entrepreneurship, creativity, and mentorship into experiences people can practice—not just ideas they can discuss.
Award-winning work includes:
The future does not arrive fully formed. Ambitious people create the inflection points that make it possible.
THE WORK NOW HAS TWO CONNECTED APPLICATIONS
For experts, Modern Author helps turn hard-won experience into a meaningful project, credible book, and next chapter. For organizations, Founder Factories and Creative Capacity help more people turn ideas into visible projects, build collaborative capability, and create what comes next.
Explore Modern Author → · Explore Founder Factories → · Explore speaking and workshops → · Explore innovation workshops → · Bring Eric to your organization →
Discover more
Explore the books, companies, classrooms, and conversations that have shaped Eric’s work.
The Pennymores and The Curse of the Invisible Quill — a supernatural adventure story about family, magic, and the courage to write your own story.
THE PLATFORM
Modern Author helps experts unlock the ambition inside their expertise. Speaking and Creative Capacity help organizations unlock ambition across their people. Super Mentors and the podcast explore the projects and relationships that turn stuck ambition into movement.
STAY CLOSE TO THE WORK
Eric writes and teaches at the intersection of authorship, innovation, creativity, and meaningful work.
Modern Author
Ideas for turning expertise into a book, platform, and authority.
Creative Capacity
Field-tested insight for building innovation-ready teams.
Podcast
Conversations with people building what’s next.
