About Ken Woodward

I’ve spent much of my life certain I knew how the world worked, until a series of unexpected insights cracked my assumptions wide open. Each one arrived fully formed, disruptive, and impossible to ignore. And each one changed me.

Those insights reshaped my marriage, my parenting, my leadership, my worldview, and ultimately my career. They also sent me on a 2,085-mile walking project through every street and alley in Washington, DC, one conversation at a time, in the name of social justice and human dignity.

What I’ve learned is simple:

Insights are gifts. Transformation is a choice. And the hinge between the two is the pause.

This work — Curated Questions — exists to help people recognize their insights, pause long enough to let them work, and grow into the lives they’re meant to live.

What Curated Questions Offers

A home for anyone seeking to live more intentionally through:

Powerful questions for reflection and clarity
The P.A.U.S.E. Method for navigating disruptive insights
The Transformative Arc for making sense of identity shifts
Weekly Insight Pause Dispatch newsletter
The Curated Questions Podcast
Leadership and transition coaching

If you’re navigating change, asking harder questions, or sensing a shift in who you’re becoming, you’re in the right place.

Who I’ve Been

Before this chapter, I worked as:

Navy Submarine Radioman, telecom instructor, small-business owner, and for 17 years, a US Navy weapons systems program manager and acquisition professional. I’ve coached leaders since 2017 and moved into this work full-time in 2025.

I live in the DC area with my wife of 32 years. Our kids are grown, and my curiosity is still growing.

Welcome to the journey, and

Keep questioning.

Ken Woodward ~ a fellow pilgrim