The leader you are everywhere else, is the leader you are in the room.
“Leadership is essentially an emotional process rather than a cognitive phenomenon.”
Edwin Friedman | A Failure of Nerve
Who I Work With
Organizations and Leadership Teams
I partner with organizations to work deeply with their senior leaders, both individually and in small groups. Engagements typically run 6-12 months and include a full assessment process, regular coaching sessions, and ongoing access between meetings.
I take on a limited number of organizational engagements each year so every client gets the depth the work requires.
Individual Leaders
For the leader who wants a thinking partner and someone who goes deeper than a typical coach. Regular sessions, direct access between meetings, no long-term package required to start.
Many leaders come to this work because they want both clinical depth and practical forward momentum. That's exactly what individual coaching with me provides.
Executive Coaching Philosophy
There's a phrase I come back to often with the leaders I work with: wherever you go, there you are.
The same emotional patterns, the same blind spots, the same coping behaviors that show up at home show up in the boardroom. The location changes. You don't. And no amount of goal-setting or strategy changes that, until you understand what's actually driving you.
Most executive coaching sets goals and tries to motivate high performers to do more. That works for a while. But there's a question worth asking: what is your performance fueled by? There's a real difference between performing from peace — from a clear sense of who you are — and performing from pain. From anxiety. From the need to prove something. My mentor Terry Hargrave says it plainly: a performance based identity is no identity at all.
Performance fueled by pain is a dirty fuel. It gets you somewhere, but it costs you everything to keep burning it.
Real leadership development requires both depth and action. Understanding what's actually driving your patterns, and building the intentional practice to change them. Not just at work. Everywhere. That's what I work toward with every leader I coach.
What I Bring to the Work
Most executive coaches come from a business background. I come from nearly 30 years of clinical and pastoral work, which means I understand not just how leaders perform, but why they do what they do, where their patterns come from, and what it actually takes to change them at the root.
I hold three Leadership Circle certifications — the Leadership Circle Profile (LCP), the LCP Management certification, and the Collective Leadership Assessment (CLA). The LCP gives individual leaders a rigorous 360-degree picture of how they're actually showing up — their competencies, behaviors, and the underlying habits of thought driving both. The CLA goes one level deeper, essentially diagnosing the collective leadership culture of an entire team or organization, revealing the gap between where a leadership culture currently operates and where it needs to be.
My work is grounded in the Restoration Therapy framework which is psychological model built around two fundamental human needs: love, which speaks into our sense of identity and belonging, and trust, which speaks into our sense of safety and openness. When leaders understand how violations of love and trust have shaped their patterns, and build the intentional practice to restore them, everything shifts. In the boardroom. At home. Everywhere.
Executive Coaching Credentials
Board Certified Coach | Executive-Corporate-Business-Leadership Specialization (BCC #5378)
Executive Coach/Dispute Resolution Certification — Southern Methodist University
Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) Certification
LCP Management Certification
Collective Leadership Assessment (CLA) Certification
RelateStrong Instructor Certification — Pepperdine University
Restoration Coaching Certification — Inaugural Cohort
Example of Some Coaching Clients
Hilton
WinShape Foundation
Young President’s Organization (YPO)
Mariott
Chick-fil-A
Highland Park Presbyterian Church
Common Executive Coaching Questions
Therapy focuses on deeper exploration of underlying patterns, emotional history, and past experiences — working toward healing and restoration. Coaching focuses on present challenges and forward movement. Both have value and both have real limitations in isolation. My approach brings the best of both together — the depth to understand what's actually driving your patterns, and the practical tools to build something different.
What is the difference between coaching and therapy?
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Every engagement is tailored to the organization and the leader. It typically begins with a discovery process — including a Leadership Circle Profile 360 assessment — to get a clear picture of where the leader is and where the greatest opportunities for growth lie. From there we build a development plan and establish a regular coaching cadence, with ongoing access between sessions. Engagements typically run 6-12 months. I take on a limited number of organizational clients each year. My office is in Frisco, TX — part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. I work with leaders and organizations locally and nationwide, in person and remotely. For organizational engagements I'm available to travel for intensive sessions when that serves the work best.
What does an organizational engagement look like?
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Yes. For leaders who want a trusted thinking partner without a full organizational package, I offer individual coaching on a regular or monthly basis. Reach out and let's talk about what would work best for you.
Do you work with individual leaders outside of organizational engagements?
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What are your fees?
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Coaching fees vary depending on the scope of the engagement. Reach out and we will have a conversation about what you're looking for.