We each find fulfillment when we identify our innate abilities, develop them into useful skills, and apply these skills to get results in contexts that are personally meaningful. These factors are what drew me into coaching as a profession. More specifically:
 

• I have always been curious and inquisitive. As a coach, I enjoy questioning and listening to quickly come up to speed on new situations.
   

• Over the years across many roles, including now as a coach, my colleagues and clients have valued my ability to synthesize - taking in ambiguous, varied, and sometimes conflicting perspectives, and assembling a narrative or framework that allows us to uncover the heart of an issue and move forward.
   

• Some people are energized by bootstrapping and building. Others are motivated by closing deals, or becoming seen as a subject matter expert. I have learned that I derive the most meaning from helping other individuals succeed.

 

I am especially excited to be coaching individuals in my own practice after working in the in-house executive coaching group at Koch Industries, one of America’s largest privately-held companies. There, I was part of a team of consultants supporting the top ~300 leaders across Koch’s operating companies (with combined revenues exceeding $125B) and corporate functions to create an environment of economic thinking and principled entrepreneurship. This involved applying the business, culture, and leadership effectiveness frameworks that have propelled Koch to outperform the S&P 500 by more than 25 to 1 over the past six decades.

 

Koch was my professional home for almost seven years. My prior roles at Koch were leading strategy and corporate development at the business unit level, and helping to invest in new platforms at the enterprise level.

 

In my work as a coach I also draw on my experience at McKinsey & Co. where I served over a dozen different client organizations, getting a front-row seat to cultures and leadership styles within each.

 

My earliest-career experience was as an engineer on teams managing the design and construction of large-scale building and civil infrastructure projects. I have a BSE in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University, an MS in Engineering Management from the George Washington University, and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

 

Outside of work, my wife and I stay busy trying to raise our four children in Atlanta, GA.