Leadership | Trust | Performance
Leadership is a verb.
I help leaders and teams build the trust, clarity and capacity to perform when the stakes are high.
For more than 25 years, I’ve led, advised, coached and built organizations. Today, I work with executives and leadership teams who want to lead better, work better together and create meaningful results.
25+ YEARS LEADING + ADVISING 200+ EXECUTIVES COACHED FORTUNE 1000 LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE FOUNDER & ENTREPRENEUR
The way you lead leaves a wake.
Leadership is not a title.
It is what happens around you because of how you show up.
The conversations people are willing to have.
The decisions they are willing to make.
The risks they are willing to take.
The trust they place in one another.
Over time, that wake determines how well a team performs and how much an organization can carry.
That is the work.
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EXECUTIVE ADVISORY
For senior leaders navigating growth, transition, complexity or simply the weight that comes with leadership.
TEAMS & TRUST
Help leadership teams understand what is really happening beneath the surface and move forward.
ORGANIZATIONAL ADVISORY
Leadership, culture, organizational change, talent, growth and the systems that shape how people actually work.
SPEAKING + FACILITATION
The goal is never simply inspiration. It’s to give people a different way to see what is happening and something useful to do about it.
I didn't come to leadership from the sidelines.
I've spent more than three decades inside organizations — leading teams, building businesses, advising executives and helping organizations navigate change.
I've been an executive.
I've led consulting organizations.
I've worked with leaders across industries and around the world.
I've built companies of my own.
And I've learned that the hardest leadership problems rarely begin with strategy … they begin with people.
The work should change something.
TEAM PERFORMANCE
Helped a leadership team identify hidden trust barriers and create measurable improvement in how the team worked together.
LEADERSHIP
Coached senior executives through growth, role transitions, organizational change and increasingly complex leadership environments.
ORGANIZATIONS
Advised companies on leadership, talent, culture, growth and transformation across more than a dozen industries.
CLIENT SNAPSHOT
Toyota
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Kroger
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Prudential
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Tapestry
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Capital One
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Columbia University
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FedEx
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Microsoft
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Toyota 〰️ Kroger 〰️ Prudential 〰️ Tapestry 〰️ Capital One 〰️ Columbia University 〰️ FedEx 〰️ Microsoft 〰️
Sometimes the work leads you to build something
After years of working with leadership teams, I kept seeing the same problem.
Organizations measured almost everything about performance — except the trust that made performance possible.
That led me to co-found Octahedron, a team trust assessment and development platform that helps teams understand how trust is affecting the way they work.
We measure it in minutes, act in days and see results in weeks.
IN THE WAKE
Leadership doesn't end when the meeting does.
Every decision, conversation and moment leaves something behind.
In The Wake is where I write about leadership, work, relationships and the things we often understand only after we've lived through them.
The person behind the work
I'm a husband, father of five, writer, entrepreneur and lifelong student of what makes people become who they become.
I've spent much of my career thinking about leadership.
I've spent just as much of my life learning that who we are outside the office has a lot to do with who shows up inside it.
Those two worlds aren't separate.
That's part of why I do this work.
What are you working through?
Maybe you're leading a team through change.
Maybe the team isn't working the way it should.
Maybe you're carrying more than you realize.
Or maybe you simply want a different perspective.