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I coach individuals and businesses on how
to truly get aligned with their stated goals and values.
How do we do that together? By
closing the gap between who or what they say they are,
or want to be, and who or what they actually are now, as
expressed through their actions (and inaction).
I'm a certified coach, having received training from the
International Coach Academy, and
a member of the Northwest Coaches Association. I'm also
a public speaker, published (and unpublished) writer, and consultant.
Please note that I am usually
either booked or accepting a very select number of clients; my rate is
$288 per session.
I was a successful lawyer, adjunct law professor, public
speaker, leadership
coach, entrepreneur, and business consultant before
becoming a success coach
full-time. I have a Juris Doctorate from Harvard
Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Business
Administration from the University of Colorado at
Boulder, where, after leaving aerospace engineering, I specialized in finance and human resources.
I bring a wealth of experience and aptitudes to the
exciting and fulfilling work of coaching. The
breadth of my experience and the training I've done
ensure that you'll get no cookie-cutter approach from
me.
I find that, more than in most
fields, potential coaching clients care about the
backgrounds of their prospective coaches. You want to
know who I am as a person, oddly enough.
So I offer summaries
of my background for two different levels of attention
span and due diligence. In the
short version,
you'll find career and educational information. In
the longer version,
you’ll be able to see in more detail what I've done and
why I have perspective on many different facets of life
and work -- and how I've become a jack of many trades,
master of several, and continually reinvented myself as
I follow the paths that appeal to me. .jpg) You'll also
see how ingeniously spectacular mistakes coupled with
deep thoughtfulness about life planning are an ideal
combination for a great
life and career coach.
Start with The Really Short
Version, below.
Go straight to the more
idiosyncratic, less corporate The Considerably Longer
Version
The Really Short
Version
The really short version of
my career and educational background might go like this
(in reverse chronology):
• Currently VP Strategic Development at my latest
start-up venture,
Earth Class Mail,
and part-time coach
• Founded
Feroce
Coaching. Certified in
business and executive
coaching by the International Coach Academy. Brought
great coaches aboard,
taught myself how to build and market yet another
Internet-based business,
and, in reality, began doing formally what I've been doing all
along: coaching people and
businesses into clarity
and results.
• Founded Virtuosity
Consulting, providing business start-up, consulting,
and executive coaching services. Clients have
included RemoteControlMail.com (open your email
anywhere and view (and discard or forward) your snail mail), PriMotive (revolutionary
electric motor), DomainsBot.com (domain name pioneers), RAINS (Regional
Alliance for Infrastructure and Network security --
promoting enhanced security against terrorism and
natural disasters), Gourmet du Jour
(private chef service), Market Mechanix (search engine
optimization and online affiliate marketing), Georgetown
Capital (venture capital), 2young2retire.com, and others.
•
Co-Founded Market Mechanix, an Internet marketing
company specializing in online affiliate programs and
search engine optimization
• Built up business
start-ups SnapNames, a pioneering company in the
domain name industry, as well as
eLaw.com, which aggregated
attorney work product online. In those start-up
companies, I did the following:
o
Business development and guerilla marketing
o Online
affiliate programs
o
Business plan creation and reformulation
o Venture
capital fundraising
o Legal
counsel
o Policy and lobbying (see U.S.
Senate testimony and U.S.
House of Representatives testimony)
o Co-founded and
was columnist for a popular industry newsletter
•
Associate Director and speaker on best practices for the
Corporate Leadership Council, a division of the
Corporate Executive Board consultancy, in Washington,
D.C. In the United States, Canada, South America, New
Zealand, and Australia, I coached executives in over 120
corporations on best practices dealing
with:
o Leadership
development
o Leadership succession
planning
o Onboarding of new
leaders
o Employee
retention
o
e-commerce
models
o Strategic and workforce
implications of e-commerce
o Strategic
planning alignment
o Leveraging
IT
o Fomenting creativity
•
Litigation and Intellectual Property attorney at the
nation’s tenth-largest law firm, Foley &
Lardner, and adjunct professor at the country’s
top-ranked intellectual property law school, George
Washington Law Center, both in Washington,
D.C.
• Founded
The Caedmon Agency, a
literary agency (which we recently discovered is somehow
still online). Washington, D.C.
•
Accepted as a trial lawyer into the U.S. Department
of Justice through the U.S. Attorney General’s
Honor Program. Washington, D.C.
•
Judicial clerk to a chief federal judge.
Denver, CO.
• Harvard Law School. Class
Marshal, honors. Cambridge, MA.
•
University of Colorado at Boulder. B.S. in
Business Administration (emphases in Finance and Human
Resources). Valedictorian, summa cum laude.
Boulder, CO.
• Rangely High School.
Valedictorian. Football, wrestling, and track.
Rangely, CO.
Interests, Hobbies,
and So On:
Literature, writing
fiction and non-fiction, hiking, skiing, rock-climbing,
mountain-climbing, dance (salsa, swing, Lindy, merengue,
pop), travel (over 30 countries and 49 states), weight
conditioning, yoga, philosophy, psychology, metaphysics,
history, politics, new technologies, business start-ups,
foreign languages.
Go to Top of Page. No, really.
Turn back now. Or, if you insist, try the memoir version.
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find a better fit? Check out some of our other great coaches
now. Look at
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