My Story

I don't fit into a single box, and never have.

I'm an executive coach with deep operational leadership experience; someone who understands the real pressures leaders face because I've lived them.

Over 35 years, I've built a coaching practice supporting 300+ clients, including executives, founders, Olympians, and high-performers navigating complexity. Alongside that practice, I've held director-level operational roles managing multi-million-dollar budgets, building national systems, and serving on senior leadership teams.

This combination matters. I coach from operational reality, not theory.

How I Work

FOR YOU

  • A confidential space: Drop the mask, admit fears and vulnerabilities, and explore what's behind the challenges you're facing.

  • Direct truth: I'll tell you what you need to hear, not just what you want to hear.

  • Calm in the storm: When pressure is sustained and decisions carry weight, I help you find the stillness required to think clearly and act decisively.

FOR YOUR TEAM

  • Safety without complacency: I build environments where your team feels safe being themselves while maintaining high-performance standards.

  • Talent activation: I help teams unlock individual potential and bridge the gap between organizational vision and daily execution.

  • Alignment under pressure: I create space where competing priorities get reconciled and people move forward together.

Walking the Talk

Every experience in my life has shaped how I serve clients today.

Early career (1990-2005): I spent 15 years immersed in high-performance sport, coaching elite athletes including Olympic and World Champions. I held head coaching positions at the University of Lethbridge and the National Swimming Centre in Calgary, learning to develop talent and unlock potential under intense competitive pressure.

National operational leadership (2005-2016): I transitioned into director-level roles managing complex organizations. At Swimming Canada, I served eight years as National Director of Operations on the senior management team, managing $2M+ budgets, coordinating government stakeholders (Sport Canada, Own the Podium, provincial organizations), and leading through multiple CEO transitions and funding crises. I redesigned the national coaching education system serving 2,500+ coaches across 10 provinces and created the Club Excellence program recognized as a model for grassroots sport development.

I later held leadership positions at the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario (managing $2M+ budgets supporting Olympic sports), Golf Ontario (directing high-performance systems), and Venture for Canada (connecting graduates with startup employers).

Pivotal shift (2016): At a Leaders Performance conference in New York City, I heard top talent experts from business, arts, education, medicine, and sport discuss shared challenges. I realized my ability to help people see new possibilities in themselves wasn't limited to athletes—it could serve anyone with ambition and drive.

Recent work (2018-present): I've focused increasingly on coaching founders and executives while maintaining operational consulting roles. I've worked with Smith School of Business at Queen's University coaching emerging entrepreneurs, served as Director at One Solution Foundation scaling global programs, and launched the Global Coach Community, a thriving space where coaches connect, learn, and grow together.

Clipper Round the World (2023-2024): Most recently, I fulfilled a lifelong dream by completing the 11-month Clipper Round the World Sailing Race as Watch Leader and Lead Bosun. Leading a 20-person team through 42,000 miles in extreme conditions compressed decades of operational and leadership experience into sustained high-stakes decision-making. This journey gave me deeper clarity on how humans maintain effectiveness under prolonged pressure—insights that now inform my coaching work.

I'm a father to three daughters who inspire me daily. Much of how I show up in my best life is driven by the example I want to be for them.

I'm passionate about social issues, especially youth and Indigenous people in Canada. In 2019, I spent two and a half weeks hiking over 600km across northern Canada in memory of Chanie Wenjack, a young Indigenous boy who died in the late 1960s while trying to walk home from residential school. Read more here.

Personal

I also support the Chicago-based inner-city youth program, Rebels for Peace, working with inspiring young leaders committed to shaping a new future by educating youth about the mind from as early as Grade 4.