Military & National Security
Command, staff leadership, high-stress decision-making, transition, and veteran experience.
Four Connected Domains of Expertise
The Record Behind the Work
What Larry Knows—and the Experience Behind It
Larry’s authority comes from work and responsibility inside the systems he discusses—not commentary from the sidelines. His record spans military command, municipal government, higher education, healthcare and nonprofit operations, governance, workforce development, research, writing, and media.
The four domains below explain what Larry knows, the experience that supports it, and how organizations can work with him.
01 / LEADERSHIP
Leadership & Organizational Performance
Clarifying authority, strengthening accountability, improving execution, and helping teams turn plans into measurable results.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
- Retired U.S. Army Captain with command and staff leadership experience
- Co-Founder and President of Black Men’s Health Clinic, leading day-to-day operations
- Higher-education teaching and veteran-support leadership
- Board, executive, and nonprofit operational leadership
Engagements:KeynotesLeadership workshopsExecutive educationOrganizational advisory
02 / GOVERNANCE
Public Systems & Governance
Understanding who holds authority, how public institutions divide responsibility, how oversight works, and how organizations implement work across sectors.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
- Former Mayor of Manor, Texas
- Former Region 10 President, Texas Municipal League
- Former Planning and Zoning Commissioner, City of Manor
- Former Chief of Staff for Austin Mayor Pro Tem Natasha Harper-Madison
- Public boards, commissions, and bond-advisory service
Engagements:Governance trainingBoard retreatsPublic-systems briefingsSystems advisory
03 / TRANSITION
Transition, Work & Reinvention
Helping people and institutions navigate changes in identity, work, education, and responsibility during major transitions.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
- Personal transition from military retirement into civilian leadership
- Author of The Transition: Preparing for Financial Combat
- Veteran-support leadership in higher education
- Workforce development, adult learning, and organizational onboarding
- Research and writing on adaptive leadership in high-stress occupations
Engagements:Veteran-transition programsUniversity engagementsCohort learningWorkforce programs
04 / ACCESS & TRUST
Trust, Community & Institutional Access
Designing human-centered systems that people can understand, trust, access, and continue using.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
- Co-Founder and President of Black Men’s Health Clinic, leading day-to-day operations
- Healthcare-access, navigation, and continuity leadership
- Public-health governance and health-equity work
- Community engagement and cross-sector coordination
- Institutional-access strategy grounded in practical service delivery
Engagements:Community-trust keynotesHealth-equity workshopsAccess-system advisoryModerated conversations
Selected Institutional Experience
Experience across the systems he helps others navigate.
Larry’s value comes from translating between institutions that operate with different authority, language, incentives, and measures of success.
Government & Public Administration
Municipal leadership, regional governance, public boards, commissions, and implementation.
Higher Education & Workforce
Teaching, veteran support, adult learning, workforce readiness, and institutional onboarding.
Healthcare & Nonprofit Operations
Access, navigation, continuity, organizational leadership, and community-centered delivery.
Governance & Boards
Oversight, clear roles and responsibilities, accountability, strategic planning, and cross-sector collaboration.
Research, Writing & Media
Books, applied research, public commentary, interviews, and clear analysis of how institutions work.
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Engage Larry for speaking, workshops, executive education, moderated conversations, or systems advisory work.
- Expanding access to affordable basic health coverage
- Increasing access to primary care and mental healthcare
- Investing in rural hospital infrastructure
- Lowering prescription drug costs
- Revamp the transition process to enhance integration into civilian life and the workforce
- Increase mixed study use of GI Bill benefits
- Advocate to reduce veteran homelessness and expand support for PTSD and TBI
- Increased teacher pay, advanced degree stipends, and specialized training
- Better retirement benefits
- Better resources for public schools
- Dual certification and career pathway programs
- Greater support and funding to HBCUs, community colleges, and vocational schools
- A livable environment for future generations by reducing fossil fuel and other toxic resources
- Ensuring safe and clean water for drinking and common day usage
- Protecting smaller and underserved communities
- Fighting for workers to have new jobs that pay just as well in a new energy sector as they do in fossil fuels
- Ensuring the safety and inclusion of our underserved, underrepresented, and LGBTQ+ community
- Ensuring a woman’s right to choose and have privacy over health decisions
- Expanding voter access to the ballot
- Mitigating the unnecessary creation of new laws and policies
- Crisis mapping of resources
- Working with advocacy groups to ensure desired outcomes are effectively termed and communicated to the governmental agencies intended
- Holding every leader accountable regardless of party, position, or demographic trait
- Ensuring leadership meets people and businesses where they are at to enable environmental and extenuating circumstances comprehension
- Flattening the communication and decision-making channels for greater community involvement
- Expanding rural broadband
- Enhance the quality of training and certifications for small business owners to improve market share
- Improve roads and arterials especially among rural and neglected communities in Texas
- Increase the number of workforce housing to decrease transit workforces