There's more than one way we might work together.
Some leaders find me through the book. Some through a keynote at their conference. Some get referred by another CEO who needed help and didn't want to do it alone.
However we meet, the work usually comes down to the same thing. You're carrying something heavy, you're not entirely sure what it is yet, and the people closest to you can't really be the ones to help you sort it out.
That's the work. Naming it. Owning it. Finding your way back into the daylight.
Who I work with
The leaders I work best with tend to share a few things in common.
They're successful from the outside. People assume they've got it figured out. Internally, something feels off. There's a gap between who they're being and who they want to be, and it's starting to cost them, in their team, their company, their family, or all three.
They're past the point where another book or another framework is going to do it. They've read those. They've tried those. What they need now is someone to walk alongside them while they do the harder work underneath.
Some are founders. Some are CEOs. Some are senior leaders inside larger organizations. Some are husbands and dads who happen to also run companies. The patterns show up the same way regardless of the title on the business card.
If any of that sounds familiar, you're in the right place.
How I work
I'm not a guru. I don't have a five-step system that will fix you in a weekend.
What I am is a leadership tour guide. Sometimes I walk in front of you because I've seen the trail before. Sometimes I walk behind to make sure you don't lose your footing. Most of the time I walk beside you and ask the questions that matter most.
The work is honest, practical, and grounded in real experience. I've spent more than twenty years coaching leaders, founding companies, stepping into organizations as an interim executive, and teaching leadership at the university level. None of that matters to you on day one. What matters is whether the person across the table from you can hold what you're carrying without trying to rush you through it.
That's the work whether we end up on stage together, on a coaching call, or inside your company for a longer engagement.
Three Ways to Work Together
Speaking and Interactive Leadership Experiences
For conferences, offsites, and leadership gatherings.
Most leadership keynotes don't stick. I build interactive leadership experiences that go deeper than a single hour on stage. Coach and facilitator first, speaker second. I work with event teams to shape the full arc of an event around what your leaders actually need to walk away with.
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Executive and Leadership Coaching
For founders, executives, and emerging leaders who want a thinking partner.
One-on-one coaching is where the deepest work tends to happen. Most engagements run six to twelve months and focus on the leadership tensions you can't easily talk through with your team, your board, or anyone else inside the building. Confidential, honest, and built around your goals rather than a fixed curriculum.
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Consulting and Organizational Work
For companies navigating growth, transition, or cultural drift.
Through SOS Leadership, the firm I founded with my dad in 2007, my team and I come into organizations as consultants, interim executives, and fractional leaders. The work spans strategy, people, culture, and the operational ground game underneath all three. When the challenge is bigger than one leader, this is the engagement that fits.
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How to Get Started
Most coaching relationships start the same way. A real conversation between two people figuring out if there's a fit.
There are two ways to begin working with me.
Free 15
A fifteen-minute speed coaching session. No cost, no pitch, no expectation that anything comes after it.
Bring one thing you're navigating right now. A decision you're stuck on. A relationship that isn't working. A leadership moment you want a second set of eyes on. We'll spend fifteen minutes on it together, and you'll leave with something useful, whether or not we ever talk again.
Free 15 is open to anyone. New leaders, experienced executives, people curious about coaching, and people who would never call themselves a coaching client. If you've got fifteen minutes and something worth thinking through, the door is open.
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A longer conversation
If you already know you're looking for a coach and want to explore what working together might look like, let's start with a longer conversation instead. Tell me where you are, what you're navigating, and what you'd want to see shift. From there, we'll figure out together whether coaching is the right next step and what shape it should take.
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