About

Hey there. I’m Scott Naylor.

To get right to it, I’m a musician and over-thinker and reluctant leader and smarty-pants and follower of Jesus Christ. The first few things in that list have come naturally to me pretty much since elementary school, especially the smarty-pants part. The last item in the list, the one about following Christ, is a work in progress, but I am equally passionate about all of them.

I spent the first 18 years or so of my professional life as an I.T. manager, consultant and engineer. Music was my avocation, and I did live work and recordings and some touring as the schedule would allow. I loved it, and it made me realize that I.T. is not bad work, I guess, but I just wasn’t passionate about it. And really, all my work in I.T. ever got me was a solid career, a great reputation, and a very large income. What does anyone need that stuff for?

The ‘not being passionate about it’ thing led me to a lot of reflection, and that led to me utter one of the most terrifying sentences I have ever conceived. I said, aloud, “OK, God. Whatever you want, I’ll do. I’m done driving this thing”.

Really. I said that. You should be careful if you decide to follow suit. I cannot protect you from what might happen.

So now (after a difficult and faith-stretching transition that I am riding right past in the interest of brevity), I work as the Director of Artists for a missional creative communications joint called Keynote, and our work is to dream up creative ways to communicate a radical message of love, hope and redemption to the world.

That sometimes means I’m traveling the world as a musician, or leading teams on tours doing outreach concerts, or dreaming about ways Keynote’s artists can be more creative, passionate, and spiritually provocative.

Some days, it’s all of those things. Those are good days.

Keynote is just one part of a worldwide Christian missions organization called ‘Cru’, which has a footprint in over 190 countries and over 25,000 staff members in the field worldwide.

For more information about our work with Keynote, click here.

Thanks for dropping in!