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My Coaching Style:
Some people live to work. Others work to live.
I view business ownership as a means to an end - it's a way to get more of what you really want from your life. Generally those things include financial rewards, self determination, expressing your talents, control of your schedule, more freedom, more fun and providing a valuable service for your clients.
These are the things that we all want. But, unfortunately, many owners end up creating a business that controls them - rather than the other way around.
Assisting owners to earn more profit in less time, with less stress, and more personal freedom is the primary focus of my programs.
I know that sounds like a cliché, but it's something that I take very seriously - both in my own life as well as in the programs that I teach.
I view my clients as people first, business owners second, and I shoot straight when it comes to giving advice. I provide training, support, accountability, challenge and encouragement to assist my
clients in transforming their businesses- and their lives.
What Qualifies Me To Coach:
- Built and managed a successful retained Executive Search Practice specializing in high level search for national law firms.
- Provided consulting services for 7 of the top 10 largest law firms in California.
- Provided strategic business coaching for over 400 recruiting firms and trained hundreds more via seminars and classes. Monthly contributor to The Fordyce Letter and other recruiting publications. Publisher of "Creative Recruiting" a bi-weekly ezine with nearly 13,000 subscribers.
- Mastery of Morgan Methodology: over 12 years of experience in successfully implementing Morgan systems and training as a Recruiter, Manager, Owner, Coach & Trainer.
- Partial Client List: Lucent Technologies, Applied Materials, Wilson Sonsini, Morrison & Foerster, McKinsey & Company and Pillsbury Winthrop.
- Prior to entering the search industry: Worked for Consulting Psychologists Press, the main publisher of the MBTI & Strong Interest Inventory.
- BA in Clinical Psychology, member of the National Honors Society in Psychology, Masters course work in Psychology at John F. Kennedy University, E-Myth Academy training, Coach University & Graduate School of coaching training.
Personal Background:
I work about 4½ days a week and take 8 weeks a year to travel and explore. I'm married, have two teenage boys and live in Gilroy, California.
Things I love (in no particular order):
Long road trips to places I've never been before. Exploring back roads and camping all over the West. International travel...almost anywhere. Studying maps and geography. Native cultures, sacred
sites, rock art, ancient ruins. Studying world religions, cultures and traditions. Creative writing, travel journals, poetry. Music...too much to list.
Cigars! Red wine. Football season. Sitting around a fire with people I care about. Cycling, working out, running (usually at 5 AM), hiking. Open space, dirt roads, desert landscapes, the Sierras.
Favorite Books (of the moment):
American Vertigo by Bernard-Henri Levy, The Captain Is Out To Lunch by Charles Bukowski, The Stranger by Albert Camus, American Nomads by Richard Grant, Yucatan by Ben Greensfelder, Sahara by Michael Palin, The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, The Prophet by Kalil Gibran, Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer.
 Favorite Movies:
Psycho, Laurence of Arabia, Rope, The Lord Of The Rings, Lost In Translation.
Feel free to also check out my personal blog to learn more.
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