Over the Years  

In a paragraph, my life has been devoted to discovering & mentoring the pragmatic steps of applied-transformation. Personally, I have known pain & trauma, including my childhood abuse: physical, emotional & sexual (by a neighbor). I have experience with the layers of transformation. For several years now, my “personal” Circle-of-Trust involves weekly 1-1’s and groups for our shared vulnerability & growth. Through it all, I realize that the life & service into which I am now emerging is why I am here. I am very alive. It is my time. 

This is something we all share. It is your time. It is our time to be very alive, to more powerfully show up in creating the change & growth for the personal & cultural transformation that is calling us.

The tone for my unwavering heart training began in athletics. One of my early mentors was Hubie Brown, the HoF NBA coach. He was my football coach at Fair Lawn High School. He modeled how to lead with heart & wisdom. Earning a football scholarship and captaining the wrestling team at the University of Connecticut, I was then mentored by NCAA HoF football coach Lou Holtz. He demonstrated fully showing up with honesty & heart all of the time, not just on the field of athletics.

My services started as a Program Director with inner-city, adolescent, second-offenders in the legal system. This was an initiation with no safety net in dealing with challenging situations that were screaming for resolutions. Already emerging were the ways that expanding consciousness was a fundamental factor for containing out-of-control situations so progress could develop toward sustainable solutions.

I then served as a Psychotherapist, LCSW, both in private practice and clinical settings, including alcohol and drug rehabilitation.  I realized the need for developing additional skills for making a greater difference in helping clients with their seeming out-of-control situations. Over time, I felt constrained by the useful but limited models of psychotherapy.

So I left my clinical work and added additional perspectives and tool-sets for providing a more interactive service. I then served as an Executive Tactical Advisor with corporate executives. Our focus included developing the awareness & skills for understanding people & situations, and ways to foster communication with heart & understanding in any situation.

I then served as a Trusted Advisor with business & community leaders for releasing fixed beliefs, perspectives, & behaviors that are keeping you stuck, generating innovative perspectives, determining effective strategies, uncovering resources, … ...

I am currently serving as an Unwavering Heart Mentor. While continuing to be a personal mentor and sounding board, we focus on expanding your awareness, identifying & aligning with your values, deepening your emotional intelligence, and creating a bridge into the new chapter of your personal & work life.

My history of service chronicles empowering countless Leaders, both individually and in groups, to fully show up in facing & improving their situation(s) with wisdom & compassion.

I've a lifetime of relationships with Consciousness Pioneers, including 2 of my current colleagues who have offered the above testimonials. I also worked for 2 years on a clinical team for stabilizing systemic out-of-control situations, with David R. Hawkins, MD, PHD, author of Power vs Force … and a decade of restoring relationships among community leaders, with Charlotte Selver, the originator of Sensory Awareness Practice … as well as contributing to several projects for dealing with severe change, with Gay Hendricks, PhD, prodigious author including The Corporate Mystic.

Personal Development during these times is lifelong process. One of these areas for me has been maturing & balancing my inner masculine & feminine dynamics. My masculine qualities were inspired early on. Athletics taught me laser focus, strategy, and how to win in high level competition. Critical thinking and analysis was natural for me too. Yet after my university years, I realized something significant was missing in my life … feminine qualities with its own strength & integrity. Emotional Intelligence guided me in experiencing feelings more clearly and deeply, including insights for relationship with myself and others. Meditation practices inspired a lifelong discovery into the levels of applied-mindfulness. Maturing & balancing my masculine & feminine qualities has been foundational for my stages of ongoing transformation, personal and professional.

What has helped me embody these experiences has been decades of living near, and working closely with, the Indigenous people of the USA and Brazil. By living close to nature, I have experienced ways to sense and develop my Unwavering Heart, while living it during my day to day.

I’ve published 2 books as a way of developing research and sharing insights.

• Unwavering Heart: 5 Keys to Living with Fierce Authenticity 2014

• Unwavering Heart: 5 Keys to Living Your Destiny 2017. 

MY NEXT BOOK: Unwavering Heart: Transforming Uncertainty into Conscious Leadership (draft title) 2025.