Work
Building, advising, writing, and leading.
Caleb’s current work spans strategic advisory, advocacy, technology, writing, speaking, and civic leadership.
Each project has a different audience. The common thread is helping people and institutions navigate complexity and do consequential work well.
01 — Strategic advocacy & operating firm
Forthwell
Forthwell is a strategic advocacy and operating firm helping businesses, associations, and organizations influence what happens around them and improve what happens inside them.
Its work includes government affairs, strategic communications, executive intelligence, AI, automation, systems integration, and custom technology implementation.
02 — Book & body of work
Ideology Theology
A forthcoming book and broader body of work exploring the intersection of Christian faith, political identity, institutional power, and public witness.
03 — Weekly letter
Good Faith Dispatch
A weekly letter on faith, culture, and the spaces in between — written for Christians who want to engage public life without surrendering conviction, humility, or neighborly love.
04 — Keynotes, briefings & conversations
Speaking
Keynotes, briefings, church messages, and conversations on leadership, politics, faith, institutional trust, and life in a divided culture.
Strategy that never survives contact with a floor vote isn’t strategy. It’s a memo.
Also underway
Selected ventures and projects
Ideology Theology
The book, its excerpts, and the ongoing body of work behind it.
ideology-theology.comForthwell Labs
AI, automation, and systems work built for organizations that need the operating side to keep up with the strategy.
workwithforthwell.comAdvisory relationships
A short list of ongoing counsel roles with executives, boards, and civic organizations navigating contested terrain.
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Conferences, churches, boards, civic groups, and leadership retreats. Tell us about your audience and what you need the conversation to accomplish.