About
My Mission
To Elevate, Equip, and Empower Others to a More Abundant Life.
My Vision
My Philosophy
- I believe in kindness, honesty, and respect as platform behaviors.
- I believe that having a service mindset is the key to a wonderful and fulfilling life.
- I believe that everyone is of value and here to make a uniquely meaningful contribution.
About Me
Dedicated to Serving By Teaching
My life’s work is dedicated to helping others live at their personal peak by building their interpersonal, productivity, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills. I work with people to develop their unique raw material by showing them how to implement a range of life and business skills that lead to both a higher version of themselves and greater gains in their careers.
The fundamentals and principals I offer are timeless and work for everyone from corporations that want to construct strong management teams to individuals who are building careers or home based businesses.
To me, nothing feels better than making a contribution in this way. I wake up each morning looking forward to the potential to positively impact someone’s present and future.
Not an easy journey…
I have empathy for those who struggle, but I know what can be done with a change of mind and a commitment to action. You see, my road to success was rough and rocky. I grew up in a semi-broken family, with little financial means, plus I’m an introvert, and struggled mightily with self-esteem and confidence.
I put myself through school as a waiter and bartender, earned a degree in Economics from the University of Maryland and ultimately ended up in banking. After two lay-offs in 4 years due to company difficulties, I started my own business. This was when I began pouring myself into self-development.
From then until now it’s been quite a ride. I uncovered my passion for teaching and helping others. Through the success of my businesses, new opportunities arose to teach and train others. And I took the opportunity to achieve an MBA from Mt. Saint Mary’s and the old me was stunned to find I finished in the top of my class.
Grateful
Understand, that I did not build this success alone. Thankfully, over 30 years ago, I married an incredible woman with a beautiful soul and we have two adult children. I cherish my family and am grateful for all we share together.
After spending most of my life in Maryland, we recently moved to New Bern, North Carolina to be on the water so I can indulge in my personal passions of fishing and crabbing. And, it turns out the people are really nice, too!
Latest Blog Posts
In Order to BE a Leader, You Have to Be Willing to DO Leadership
It’s Easy to Romanticize Success Isn’t It? Think about it. When we are looking at anyone who has achieved something of substance and is realizing the visible fruit of the achievement, we naturally think about how cool it would be to be in their shoes so we could be...
How to Inspire Hope
It's Pretty Hard to Be Negative and Hopeful in the Same Breath You see, true hope is a feeling. A feeling of optimism about something you want and reasonably expect to occur in the future. Since it’s essentially an emotion, and it’s hard to have two specific and very...
Quit Making “IT” Harder on Yourself
So What is "IT?" Whatever you are trying to accomplish is IT. We all have multiple "ITs" in our lives as we try to improve our quality of life. These might be trying to get fit, lose weight, or just be healthier. Or it could be trying to become more successful in our...
How Fast Should You Respond to People?
Every Single Interaction Matters in Some Way I'm not very handy. Anyone that knows me at all can attest to this. I am exceptionally good at breaking things around the house, but not very good at truly fixing them...aside from what I can manage with my friend the roll...
5 Tips for a Successful Career
I Agree With You That It Could Be More… You might be thinking that there are undoubtedly more than five things that will lead to a successful career. You’re right. There are. But who’s going to read “137 Things to…?” So, yes, this could be more, but it doesn’t HAVE to...
Roll With The Changes
Why Can’t Things Just Stay How You Like Them? We humans are funny creatures, aren’t we? We have this love/hate relationship with change. We want things to stay in our comfort zone, which means we want them to stay right in the spot where we know what to expect, yet in...
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Partner, American Home Contractors
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SVP, Penguin Random House
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