The firm
Twenty years of working with people, behavior, decisions, and systems.
I have spent more than twenty years working with people, behavior, decisions, conflict, systems, and change.
My career has included social work, more than a decade as a therapist, teaching sociology and statistics, mentoring, coaching, leadership development, and consulting.
Today, I work with business owners, executives, and leadership teams as an executive coach, consultant, and trusted advisor.
That background gives me an unusually broad way of looking at business and leadership problems. I understand the individual sitting inside the problem, the relationships surrounding it, and the larger organizational system in which it is occurring.
Why the background matters
Counseling and therapy
Recognizing behavioral patterns, hearing what is not being said, understanding how people respond under pressure, working productively with conflict and avoidance, and addressing difficult issues without reducing a person to the problem they are creating.
Sociology
Looking beyond individual behavior to roles, culture, norms, incentives, groups, authority, power, expectations, and organizational structure.
Teaching
Explaining complicated ideas clearly, asking better questions, organizing information, challenging assumptions, and helping people move from understanding an idea to using it.
Mindfulness
Attention, emotional steadiness, self-awareness, and staying useful in difficult conversations rather than reacting to them.
Executive coaching, consulting, and advisory
Bringing those disciplines into leadership, decisions, organizations, implementation, and measurable improvement.
Working principles
Face Reality, Act Accordingly.
Take Ownership, Forget Blame.
Find Freedom Through Structure and Discipline.
Be Curious, Embrace Uncertainty.
Care Deeply, Have Standards.
Credentials
- Former Therapist
- More than a decade of clinical work with individuals and families, applied to recognizing patterns of behavior, avoidance, and conflict in leadership settings.
- Counseling and sociology
- Graduate training in both disciplines — one for how individuals make decisions, the other for how systems, incentives, and culture shape them.
- Teaching
- University-level instruction in sociology and statistics, which shows up in the ability to clarify complexity and challenge assumptions usefully.
- Executive advisory
- Direct work with founders, CEOs, and senior leadership teams on decisions, execution, organizational change, and leadership behavior.
Based in Texas, I work with owners, executives, and leadership teams locally and across the country. Coaching and advisory relationships are available virtually, while consulting may be conducted virtually, on-site, or through a combination of both.
Start a Conversation
Tell me about the decision, leadership issue, or organizational problem in front of you. We can determine the right kind of support from there.