HOW I WORK
Integration,
not optimization.
Most leadership development focuses on doing — communicating better, delegating more effectively, executing faster. While valuable, that doesn't address what's underneath. My work is about who you are behind the doing.
Awareness + Aspiration + Authenticity + Agency = Aligned Action
The Work
Leadership coaching for whole people
We work on your challenges while examining the beliefs, patterns, and identities that created them.
The Goal
Not Balance. Integration.
When your professional expertise serves your authentic values, everything changes.
The Difference
Experience from both sides
After 30 years as an executive and investor, I understand the arena you're operating in.
THE FRAMEWORK
The A5: a path from insight to action.
This framework guides our work together and ensures that by the time we get to action, it's the right action. Each element builds on the last. None works in isolation.
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Awareness
UNDERSTANDING WHERE YOU ARE — AND HOW YOU GOT HERE
We build a clear, honest picture of your current reality — strengths, patterns, stories you tell yourself, and blind spots you've developed along the way. Most leaders are good at diagnosing others. This is about turning that same rigor on yourself. Without real awareness, action is just more motion.
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Aspiration
CLARIFYING WHAT YOU ACTUALLY WANT — NOT WHAT YOU SHOULD WANT
Most successful leaders have a list of goals. What they may lack is clarity on where those goals came from — whether they're genuinely theirs or inherited from expectations, comparison, or an outgrown definition of success. We spend real time here; misaligned aspiration leads to the wrong destination.
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Authenticity
ALIGNING YOUR PATH WITH WHO YOU ACTUALLY ARE
We'll examine any gap between who you present and who you are. Not to collapse them entirely, but to ensure the space between them isn't costing you more than you realize. Authentic leadership is about coherence: leading in a way that's genuinely yours.
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Agency
RECLAIMING YOUR CAPACITY TO CHOOSE AND ACT
High-achieving leaders often feel less in control than others may assume. Pressures and constraints are real, and over time one can lose touch with how much genuine choice actually exists. Agency is about marshaling options and building internal capacity to act on what matters.
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Aligned Action
CHANGE THAT COMES FROM THE INSIDE OUT — AND LASTS
When awareness, aspiration, authenticity, and agency are in place, action becomes different. Clearer. Experiments you run, commitments you make, changes you implement come from a deeper, more integrated place. That's what makes them sustainable.
THE PROCESS
What working together
actually looks like.
We start with a candid conversation — an exploration of where you are, what you're navigating, and whether this work is what you need. If it is, we build a coaching contract together: your goals, specific ways we'll work, and what success looks like for you.
From there, the engagement is yours. We follow what's most alive and important for you each session. Some sessions are strategic. Some are psychological. Some are both. The A5 framework provides orientation, but it's your agenda.
Between sessions, I may offer exercises, prompts, or assessments as invitations to look more closely at something we've opened up. The real work happens in the moments between our conversations, when you're living the questions we've been exploring.
FORMAT
One-on-one coaching, meeting virtually or in person near Park City.
CADENCE
Typically every two weeks, 90–120 minutes per session. Adjusted to your schedule and pace.
DURATION
Most engagements start with six months. Shorter engagements available for focused work.
ASSESSMENTS
Enneagram (iEQ9), 360-degree feedback (Shift+) and other assessments available.
GETTING STARTED
A 30-minute exploratory call to see if we're a fit.
GROUP/TEAM & WILDERNESS
Group and team coaching, along with the HighPoint wilderness expeditions for those seeking a different format.
DISTINCTIONS
What this is not.
It helps to be clear about what coaching is, and what it isn't — so you can decide whether this offers the right support for what you're navigating.
NOT THIS
Therapy
Therapy addresses psychological wounds, trauma, and deep emotional patterns. It's essential work — but it's a different field with a different purpose.
Coaching focuses on your present and future, not your past. We work with what's alive now and where you want to go.
NOT THIS
Consulting
A consultant diagnoses problems and prescribes solutions. I'm not here to tell you what to do. I'll share strong opinions — but you're the expert on your own life.
Coaching helps you develop clarity and capacity, rather than creating dependency on someone else's answers.
NOT THIS
Mentoring
A mentor shares their experience and models a path. My experience informs my perspective — but your path isn't mine to map.
Coaching lets you find your own path, with a guide who challenges your assumptions without substituting their own.