Personal, Business, and Career Mentoring

I help people create extraordinary lives and businesses—extraordinary in the ways that matter to them.

The conventional wisdom is that with intelligence and drive, you can do anything. But that’s not reality. Even the best and the brightest have blind spots, fears, and ways they get in their own way. Indeed, the most successful of us build lives around that success.

The life we build to make success easy—the friends, employees, habits, and beliefs—can make it more difficult to create real transformation in our lives. We work together to uncover your ‘extraordinary’ and help you achieve it.

I’m Handcuffed to My Income

“As soon as I’m independently wealthy, I’ll really start living.” — Yuichi, self-made immigrant, 1980. Net worth: $2 million (1980 dollars)
“As soon as I’ve really provided for myself and my kids, I’ll really start living.” — Yuichi, self-made immigrant, 2002. Net worth: $80 million (2002 dollars)

One of the most insidious success traps comes from the success itself. It gives us the ability to do great things, but we become captive to the money, power, and status that’s brought about the success. There’s nothing wrong with those things in and of themselves, but if they’ve become your excuse for not living an extraordinary life, rather than your means for living an extraordinary, it’s time for change.

I Built my Business, Now I Want to Build My Life

Many of us start our career believing first we’ll earn money, then we’ll do something amazing with our lives. We’ll achieve first, then meet our needs for significance, legacy, and happiness. But even when we’ve mastered career success, finding the rest doesn’t come naturally. We don’t know what we want, we don’t how to get it, and we’ve built lives that don’t give us the chance.

I Had Big Dreams 20 Years Ago. What Happened?

“I’ve always felt I was destined for great things. Why haven’t they happened?” — Comfortable middle manager at Fortune 500 company making a six-figure income.

If you don’t know what life you want, you won’t get it. You may not know what’s ‘extraordinary’ for you, either because you’ve forgotten, you won’t let yourself admit it, or you haven’t found it, yet. Our work together will concentrate on helping you recover your past passion or get out now to find it.

If it’s time to step up to your full potential and take your life to another level, call to discuss working together. If you’ve been preparing your entire life and are ready to step up to whatever’s next, now is the time.

How We Work Together

We can work together at different levels of engagement. I take only a small number of clients. The specifics of each engagement are crafted around the outcomes you’re trying to achieve.

Mentor and consultant. We meet regularly, and engage deeply. I help you get clarity around your goals and how to get there, and develop the courage to step far outside your comfort zone—both in what you believe is possible for yourself and in what you discover you can do.

Individual consultation. I offer a limited number of one-time consultations around specific business or personal problems.