Hugh is founder and President of OTA, a creative collaborative offering extraordinary experiences and engagements that educate, empower, and serve as catalysts for community-builders and change agents to improve the lives of all people living in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota. OTA has hosted over 50 global thought leaders and 2,500 regional creators and innovators in its first four years.

In 2008, Hugh started DudetoDad.com as a genuine cry for help from an ordinary dude who wanted to be an extraordinary dad. Dude to Dad has grown to include 85,000 new fathers, an Amazon Parenting #1 Bestseller ("Dude to Dad: The First Nine Months"), with two additional books and a television series currently in development.

He is a frequent speaker on the power of story, a perspective of possibility, the strategic values of community & network-building, and the joys and challenges of fatherhood.

Hugh lives in the OTA states with his beautiful, intelligent and extremely patient wife, Amy, four year old daughter Emerson, newborn son Finn, and an imaginary friend named Sally.

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