About me
My aim in my professional work is simple and two-fold: I want to absolutely delight people during real time coaching or feedback debrief conversations and when sharing content I’ve created.
The goal of coaching is to help people pause and question their beliefs, behaviors, thoughts, and ideas that limit their perspective, so they can see a new way forward to achieve their desires.
Across more than 20 years, I’ve proven that I can coach anyone, anywhere to achieve that goal—whether C-Suite executives, physicians, attorneys, university foundation leaders, family business owners, regional directors, people managers, or high-potential individual contributors. My clients have spanned more than 25 industries and several continents.
I bring a multidisciplinary mindset to my work, seasoned by diverse career experiences and a lifelong fascination with the human condition through the nuances of architecture, filmmaking, jazz, literature, mindfulness, mythology, philosophy, psychology, spirituality, and world history.
Nashville, Tennessee, is my current home and nearly 100 percent of my coaching and feedback sessions take place over video calls.
Why I coach
Why am I so drawn to professional executive coaching?
Connection. Coaching is a natural fit for those who value deep connection through conversations and reflections with individuals or small groups.
Credibility. Organizations such as the International Coaching Federation (ICF), provide frameworks for competencies, ethics, training, and certification that give discipline, rigor and science to the coaching profession.
Curiosity. Coaching is one of the most gratifying professions for the incurably curious, the lifelong learner, the insatiable story seeker.
Holistic. Coaching serves the whole person, honoring their strengths, weaknesses, contradictions, paradoxes, and potential.
Impact. Because coaching is so personalized and guided, new insights and tangible behavior change are more likely to gain momentum and staying power.
Multidisciplinary. Coaching can draw upon any discipline, any field, art form, etc., and coaches can come from any professional background as well.
Objectivity. Coaching leaves no place for agendas, assumptions, and biases to hide, all of which must be sacrificed on the altar for the benefit of the client.
Peers. Some of the most engaging, generative, kind, and open minded professionals I’ve known have been coaches. I didn’t know that I wanted to be a coach until I started meeting actual coaches.
Presence. Coaching is a radical act of presence in a chronically distracted world.
Safety. Coaching offers the psychological safety that’s often talked about in organizations but inconsistently executed.
Thought Partnership. Coaching elicits clarity, structure, and action steps with accountability that are harder to obtain and design on one’s own.
Unifying. Coaching knows no boundaries, whether national, political, spiritual, economic, linguistic, industrial, etc.