Dawn Porthouse is a writer, analyst, and entrepreneur with an MBA, a Master of Public Administration, and an Enrolled Agent designation — the highest credential awarded by the IRS, authorizing unlimited practice rights in tax law and business financial matters.
She has also built and run her own businesses — which informs how she reads the decisions other companies made.

She created Deliberate Drift to explore something most business analysis overlooks — not the moment a company failed, but the sequence of rational decisions that made failure the only remaining option.

Her work asks a simple question: what were they thinking at the time, and why did it make sense?

Dawn is a full-time RVer whose preference for simplicity and structure carries directly into her work — clear thinking, restrained conclusions, and analysis that follows the evidence rather than the narrative.