About
My Mission
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
The Most Important Thing To Work on
What Do You Think About You? Talk about a "can of worms" question! To be clear, this question isn't about how you look, or how much income you make, or what your job title is, or your standing in your community. Those are surface things. They have nothing to do with...
Seven Simple Things That Build Your Reputation
The Old Adage is "Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, Reputation." This is true... from the positive perspective but NOT so much on the negative side. Since a positive reputation is essentially a trust, this requires multiple impressions that are favorable because...
How to Find Why so You Will Figure Out HOW
Lots of People Who Know HOW....DON'T! As a matter of fact, knowing how is not much of an indicator in succeeding in ANYTHING. This is one of the reasons I find it so comical when some pundit preaches that if you don't do XYZ HIS/HER way, you won't succeed. What a...
A Powerful Leadership Tip to Build up People
How Would You Like to Have Inspired People in Your Organization? That would be pretty cool wouldn't it? To wake up everyday knowing that the people you are leading are jazzed and enthusiastic about their work is a leadership dream. So how do you make this a leadership...
You Cannot Fail When You Do This…
Did I Just Give You Some Sort of Success Guarantee? Sort of and not really. There is nothing guaranteed in life except death. However...there is a guaranteed way to live a better life. In fact there are multiple things that if you simply do consistently will guarantee...
Three Steps to Inspiring Change
What Causes Someone to Make a Change for the Better? Jim Rohn used to say that it is either inspiration or desperation. I agree with this in general. When I look back in my own life, I can clearly see times when I was driven by both. I do believe, unfortunately, that...
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Partner, American Home Contractors
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SVP, Penguin Random House
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