I've spent thirty years navigating the toughest rooms.
High-stakes negotiations, government crises, boardrooms on the edge of collapse, and the most personal room of all: the one where you look at everything you’ve built and ask whether the scoreboard you were playing by was actually yours, whether the life you made is the life you still want. I know what it takes to perform under that kind of pressure. And I know what it costs when you’ve been performing for so long you’ve forgotten what you’re actually playing for.
This is what I do. In every form it takes.
WHAT I DO
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
EXECUTIVE COACH
For senior leaders at a genuine inflection point, ready to do the honest work.
STRATEGIC ADVISOR
Confluence PSG and TPGI Ventures. Complex problems in government and business.
LIVING ALL IN
The podcast and the ongoing argument that a designed life is not a fantasy. It’s a decision.
THE STORY
The life that made the work possible.
I grew up without a map. By fifteen I was on my own. No safety net, no plan, just a decision that the people who wrote me off were going to be wrong. That decision built a career. Silicon Valley in its wildest years. Corporate finance, government contract and consulting work, high-stakes rooms most people never see inside. A firm I founded in 1996 that I relaunched and still run. Another I built from scratch that now works with some of the most complex policy and organizational challenges in government and private industry.
Then Crohn’s disease nearly killed me. I went from 170 pounds to 120 in less than a month. I spent 72 hours in a recliner with death in the room. Not fighting it, just acknowledging it. I decided not yet. Six weeks after surgery to save my life, with a medical device attached to my body, I made my 500th skydive. A few years later I closed the chapter on a life that looked like success and opened one that actually felt like mine. Sold the Colorado house in 48 hours, bought one on the North Carolina coast, kept a condo in Colorado and built something better with the woman who moved a mattress into my living room while I sat with death.
I understand navigating tough situations because that’s what I’ve made a life and career out of doing. And in the process, I made a life others are hesitant to believe is possible.
Work that has mattered
$1B+ Transactions
Senior Government Advisor
Confluence PSG
TPGI Ventures (1996)
1,000+ Skydives
Top Ranked Podcast
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