I've been shaped by multiple cultures, real world experience, and a steadfast spiritual practice. An entrepreneurial itch led to building a company with my two brothers after graduating from Wharton. The company grew from 6 to 400 assisted living units with a staff of 200+. With it, I found my role evolving from hands-on care to eventual CFO and CEO, funding $115m in new developments while keeping a close pulse on the way we cared for our residents and those serving them. This daily engagement with changing human conditions, bodies, and emotions, has shown me what it means to listen, be present for someone and simply, to notice. For me, one acknowledgement of this work has been receiving the American Society on Aging's National Award for Excellence.

My work and a personal sense of spiritual stalemate led me deeper to the core questions of meaning and purpose, taking me to the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley where I studied and taught. Though some answers remain elusive, I have deep appreciation for the different paths of self-discovery and fulfillment we seek, each in our own unique way and rhythm. I have seen this first-hand in the time I have devoted at the county jail as the spirituality and communications facilitator, supporting a diverse population of men and women to navigate the metaphorical walls we all seem to build from time to time.

To balance life as a coach, I asset manage investments in senior housing, provide financial consulting for non-profits and serve as Vice-Chair on the board of a graduate school. Travelling is in my blood and allowed me to meet my Swiss wife in the south of Egypt, making French a distant 4th language after English, Farsi and Spanish. Daily prayer and meditation are key practices for me. I dance tango with great enthusiasm and little hope of turning pro, engage my playful side through improvisational theater and laugh endlessly at the spontaneous humor of candid camera. I also love nature and recently walked the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage along the northern coast of Spain, hiking 850km in one month.

My coaching philosophy is this: "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there" (Jalal ad-Din Rumi). A good coaching relationship cultivates resources and answers that are within you already. It supports the different areas of your life holistically even when focusing on a specific issue, and can engage the body, feelings, and thoughts. Coaching empowers change. It brings healthy movement to places you are stuck and creates choice when you are unclear, anxious or just know deep down there is something more. You set the agenda and commit to creating a meaningful and lasting outcome. There is rich "work" to be done and fruit to bear, all in the service of the ideal life you want to live.

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