I've spent most of my working life in and around organizations — as a leader, as someone who studied how organizations actually function, and as a coach working with people at significant turning points. What I bring to coaching is the combination of that experience, the rigor of doctoral research, and genuine familiarity with what major transitions actually require.
I work primarily with men in midlife navigating a significant career or life transition — a layoff, a career change, a major personal shift, or a growing desire to live and work more intentionally. Many of my clients are accomplished, capable people who are finding that what worked before no longer fits what they want now.
What makes this work useful isn't that I have a formula. It's that I've thought carefully about these questions, I've studied them, and I've lived through versions of several of them myself.
My doctoral research focused on the identity, psychological, and career dimensions of major transitions in mid-career professionals — the population I now work with as a coach.
The Professional Certified Coach credential from the ICF requires demonstrated coaching competency, substantial supervised practice, and ongoing professional development. It's one of the most rigorous credential pathways in the field.
Born — Love — Die, From Autopilot to Authentic, and Living at the Summit. Each one draws from lived experience navigating identity, loss, reinvention, and purpose in midlife.
Before coaching, I spent more than two decades in international corporate environments — building organizations, managing teams, and navigating the kind of decisions my clients now face.
I spent the first part of my career building what high-achieving professionals build: roles, relationships, reputation. Then, in a compressed period, a number of things I'd built came apart. A layoff. A divorce. A profound personal loss. Each one required me to rebuild something — my sense of direction, my sense of self, my understanding of what matters.
I went back to school. I earned a doctorate. I built a coaching practice working with exactly the people I had been — capable, accomplished, and at a point where the old way of operating no longer worked. That's the work. That's what I do with my clients.
"The reinvention that followed wasn't a plan I made. It was a decision to make the experience mean something."
I'm in my mid-sixties, happily married to Tanya, and genuinely excited about the next several decades. That's not posturing — it's what life after a complete reinvention can look like when you make honest choices about how to live it.
My current interests include agentic AI, healthspan and longevity research, bitcoin, writing, and deep conversations with people doing interesting things. I coach people I find genuinely fascinating. That's not accidental.
I'm direct. I ask questions most people don't ask. I'm more interested in what's actually true for you than in what sounds good. If you're looking for encouragement without accountability, I'm probably not the right fit.
What I offer is a consistent, focused relationship with someone who takes your situation seriously — who will think alongside you, push back when it's useful, and help you move from reflection to action.
Tell me what you're navigating. We'll figure out whether coaching makes sense.
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