I Help You Become a More Aware and Connected Leader

That means being more self-aware, staying personally and consistently engaged with team members, remaining calm under pressure, resolving conflict, and deepening trust between colleagues.

Why trust me as your coach?

I bring decades of experience helping people discover their inner resources, as well as the wisdom gained through hard knocks.

I’ve had the opportunity to study leadership, observe leadership in organizations, and learn personally through trial and error all those years—how to get through painful trials, fear, doubt, and relational conflict.

I also bring many experiences of failure and hard-earned self-awareness through suffering.

Thirteen years ago, I went through a painful season of leadership failure. It was both the most difficult and the most precious time in my life, as I learned more about the grace, mercy, and love of God than I ever did from books. During that time, my wife and I went through several transitions: career changes, moving our home, leaving a faith community, becoming empty nesters, and losing our parents.  

I’ve come to see that failure and weakness are resources or assets if we are willing to learn from them.

When I help a person become more self-aware, failure is one of the things we look for—how it can aid your growth.

That is why I am passionate about helping leaders and former leaders recover from firing, failure, disappointment, or burnout.

I provide a safe setting where you can think out loud and feel understood.

I help you make progress on tough things like pivoting in your career, aging, transitions, deepening your marriage, parenting, or pastoring, and caregiving for aging parents or other seniors who are declining and dying.

Failing, weaknesses, and learning to present my vulnerable true self to people have been a miracle I never could have imagined.

In fact, at one time, my life was full of the fear of being known—even to myself.  Two books by David Benner were life-changing in this regard: The Gift of Being Yourself and Sacred Companions.

This led to a whole new way of being a friend and a helper, which involves listening, prizing individuality, fostering togetherness, and overcoming the fear of vulnerability. Being yourself does not require detaching from others.    

I’m a husband, father, friend, and chaplain who’s finding that I’m still discovering more layers of brokenness within myself. But I’m hopeful and motivated for transformation.

I write here on my blog and on Substack about how to become more aware and connected in leadership, friendship, and family.

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