Ask the people who've worked with Timothy over the years what he actually is, underneath the job titles, and they tend to land on the same word: storyteller.
He honed that craft in an unlikely place — the graduate classroom, where he taught and mentored students navigating their careers. He's spent years alongside CTE teachers and administrators, years substitute teaching and volunteering in youth programs, and just as many in front of executives working through hard decisions. Different rooms, same questions and the same challenges underneath — just earlier, and usually alone.
What made him effective in every one of those rooms is the same thing that makes the stories work: a gift for taking something complicated and making it simple enough to actually use.
Writing fiction wasn't Timothy stepping away from teaching. It was him adding a new way of teaching kids through stories — one a thirteen-year-old would actually want to finish. Values, People, Purpose is the thread underneath all of it: name what you value, treat people like they matter, know why the work is worth doing.
He lives in Olin, Iowa, with his wife, where he's at work on a second trilogy — and still finds his way into a classroom or a library every chance he gets.
