{"id":31,"date":"2026-03-11T00:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrishockey.com\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:14:52","slug":"contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrishockey.com\/en\/contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Hero&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_direction=&#8221;90deg&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;rgba(240,242,246,0.5)&#8221; background_color_gradient_end=&#8221;rgba(255,255,255,0)&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;60px||60px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; header_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;56px&#8221; header_line_height=&#8221;1.2em&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>Talk to Me<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Body&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;40px||40px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; max_width=&#8221;780px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.7em&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Information governance is a small field. There aren&#8217;t enough people in it, there aren&#8217;t enough mentors for the people who are entering it, and most early-career practitioners I meet are figuring it out alone. I don&#8217;t think that should be normal.<\/p>\n<h2>If you&#8217;re in one of these situations, I&#8217;ll talk to you:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;re a student or career-switcher considering information governance, records management, e-discovery, or adjacent fields, and you want to ask whether it&#8217;s a real career.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re in your first ~7 years in the field and you want to talk through a problem you&#8217;re stuck on, a decision you&#8217;re weighing, or just how the field works at scale.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re in a junior role at a firm or in-house team, you don&#8217;t have a mentor, and you&#8217;d like one conversation to figure out whether you want to stay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>I can&#8217;t help with:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Job placement at Gibson Dunn or anywhere else. I&#8217;m not a recruiter and I don&#8217;t pass referrals as favors.<\/li>\n<li>Free consulting on a specific project. If you have a real engagement-shaped problem, you need a paid consultant, not me.<\/li>\n<li>Legal advice. I&#8217;m not a lawyer.<\/li>\n<li>Vendor recommendations. I don&#8217;t endorse vendors publicly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_blurb use_icon=&#8221;on&#8221; font_icon=&#8221;%%238%%&#8221; icon_color=&#8221;#29c4a9&#8243; icon_placement=&#8221;top&#8221; use_icon_font_size=&#8221;on&#8221; icon_font_size=&#8221;40px&#8221; content_max_width=&#8221;100%&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;10px||0px||true|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||10px||false|false&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; text_line_height=&#8221;1.7em&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>How it works<\/h2>\n<p>Email me at <a href=\"mailto:christopher.l.hockey@gmail.com\">christopher.l.hockey@gmail.com<\/a> with a couple sentences about who you are and what you want to talk about. I read everything. I respond to most things within two weeks. If a 30-minute call makes sense, I&#8217;ll send a booking link.<\/p>\n<p>I do this because someone did it for me, and the field needs more of it.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Disclaimer&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;20px||40px||true|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; max_width=&#8221;780px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; text_font=&#8221;||on||||||&#8221; text_text_align=&#8221;center&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;14px&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#666666&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><em>Views are my own and not those of Gibson, Dunn &amp; Crutcher LLP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk to Me Information governance is a small field. 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