I'm Tim. I'm Chief Solutions Officer at Unbridled, a creative services firm. I run a portfolio of operating companies — real estate development, property management, short-term rental, landscaping — under Woodring Ventures. I just completed my doctoral work at Colorado State University under Dr. Tom Chermack, in the lineage of Pierre Wack's scenario planning tradition. I'm writing two books: Predictive Planning (executive strategy) and Unto (purpose and stewardship). And I'm building the Predictive Planning Institute as the publishing and certification arm of the discipline.
Two books, written together, sitting in different parts of the same intellectual project — strategy under uncertainty, and the question of what the work is for.
The next-generation Wack-Schwartz-Chermack framework for an AI-native era. A practitioner discipline for executives who have noticed their annual plan goes stale by April. Foreword by Tom Chermack.
Pre-order and read excerptsA serious nonfiction inquiry into the problem of meaning. Not business self-help. Not Christian apologetics. A philosophical examination grounded in personal history and the gap between to and unto.
Read the chapter notesStrategy proves itself in operating businesses, not in decks. Here are the companies the writing comes from.
I work with a small number of executive teams and boards — not as a consultant with a deliverable, but as a thinking partner who brings the research into the room. The work is usually in one of three modes.
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I'm Tim Woodring. I write and operate at the intersection of strategy, foresight, and the messy work of building things that last. My doctoral work at Colorado State University was advised by Tom Chermack, who runs the Organizational Learning, Performance and Change PhD program and is the most direct living academic descendant of Pierre Wack's scenario planning lineage at Royal Dutch Shell.
Most strategy authors are pure academics, pure consultants, or pure operators. I've tried to occupy a fourth lane — what I think of as the scholar-builder position. Academic credentialing on the work, but the work itself is grounded in the operating businesses I actually run. Real estate development. Property management. A landscaping company. A short-term rental brand. A creative services firm where I'm Chief Solutions Officer. Each of those businesses is a laboratory for the writing. The strategy in my books is the strategy I operate by.
I'm writing two books. Predictive Planning defines an AI-native discipline for executive foresight — the next generation of the Wack-Schwartz-Chermack tradition. Unto is a quieter book about meaning and stewardship, built around the philosophical weight of one preposition. The Predictive Planning Institute is the publishing and certification arm of the first book's discipline, with classmates from my PhD program serving as fellows.
I'm married to Olivia. I'm a Christian, which informs my view of purpose without being the topic of most of what I write. I live in Denver. The work is for my family, my collaborators, and the leadership teams who have to make consequential decisions inside of organizations that have outgrown the planning systems they were given.