Thinking Partner to Extraordinary Leaders

You are already an extraordinary leader

As an extraordinary leader, you are already successful. You have developed the capacity to operate from both inside and outside your environment. You can lead through complex environments because you are able to operate simultaneously in multiple time frames and perspectives; you can slow the game down when the world moves fast. You are able to experience yourself as both the problem and the solution. You deploy yourself into situations to achieve amazing results.

You continue to dedicate your focus, energy, and time to leading, but it is no longer about chasing success. You are no longer satisfied with achievement alone. You are internally motivated to create more meaning and contribution through your leadership and your life.

Extraordinary leaders strive to leave the world a better place than they found it. You care about creating impact through your work, but you also care about who you are being in your relationships, family, and community. Extraordinary leaders operate from a higher order of consciousness; you no longer separate leadership from humanity, business from your being, and achievement from presence.

Even extraordinary leaders carry a few things

You have achieved success that most people would love to have. So when you talk about the stress you experience, people around you see it as a nice-to-have quality problems. They are still problems.

You are not sure if the next level of growth you are pursuing is actually yours. Your relentless internal drive and sense of responsibility continuously puts you into over-commitment because you know you can help. You are always stretched. Your life looks successful on the outside but you privately question whether everything you are doing is truly something that inspires you from within.

You now have the status, influence and financial flexibility you coveted, but not your inner freedom. Your internal operating system is still governed by performance, over-responsibility, perfectionism, and self-judgment. You find yourself constantly in conversation with your inner-critic. There is always more, better, faster, and you ask yourself why you are not already there.

You are becoming more conscious as a person and leader in your life. You no longer want to separate and compartmentalize your work and life; you want all areas of your life to be an expression of your being. You have already experimented with all the tools and strategy frameworks that you will ever need. What you need now is stillness and embodiment; the person you are being becomes the contribution.

I have lived the external achievement game; a lived experience for over two decades in corporate leadership. I have lived inside fast moving, complex environments, pressure, responsibility, high performance, and strategic execution in a results-oriented world. I developed my high achiever identity around being capable, trusted and needed by those around me. I lived the inner game of leadership and know that what you see on the outside is not what is experienced on the inside.

I have viscerally experienced the death of someone I loved. At the height of my career growth, my heart was shattered with grief, loneliness, mortality and questions around the meaning of my life. I experienced with deep pain that no amount of achievement or high performance gives me inner freedom or protection from what is most important in life.

It is my life's work to enrich the quality of the human experience of extraordinary leaders. I know that when you elevate your leadership consciousness in all areas of life, the positive effects ripple out to your teams, organizations, families, and communities.

The 3 Traps of Extraordinary Leaders

Extraordinary leaders continuously reset their own high bar for impact and trap themselves.

1. You are building the next phase of your life with the same achievement identity that built the last one

Increasingly up-leveling your goals on the same internal operating system will create stress and overwhelm

2. You are trying to solve your inner freedom with external optimization

You may be looking for better time management, productivity, leadership effectiveness professionally, and better routines and habits personally. While these strategies are very helpful, the biggest roadblock is your identity-level thinking; that you are valuable and worthy only when you are needed, productive, and responsible.

3. You believe you can find your next development curve on your own

You are surrounded by people who depend on you, not grow you. We all need a trusted partner to help explore our depth, we can not see blind spots for ourselves. It's the paradox of being a hero in your environment; everyone looks to you for guidance, and no one is available to guide you.

The Integrated Leader

Become the kind of leader whose impact comes from who you are being, not what you are doing.

Become a conscious leader whose presence, relationships, work and way of being come from your inner wisdom, not from the high-achiever identity of your past.

Creating meaningful impact that is completely authored by you

You are no longer looking for a bigger goal, you are looking for a goal that is uniquely yours. A mission you feel called to achieve in your lifetime. A mission that calls forth your most powerful identity.

Consciously choosing who you are in every situation

The next level of leadership consciousness is about accessing the full spectrum of your leadership capabilities. It is no longer about fixing you as a leader, there is nothing to fix. All of the shadows from your early leadership development phases are now accessible gifts. You leverage them and choose wisely to fit every situation.

Your next growth comes from within

If you want to ascend, you need to go deeper. If you want to expand, you need to be aware of your contraction. If you want to lead through pace and complexity, you need stillness and simplicity. You no longer only look to the outside world for solutions. The next development stage of your growth is through internal depth.

It might be a fit for us to work together if,

you have experience with self-reflective business leadership development.

you have a high level of self-awareness. You acknowledge that you are both the problem and the solution in any situation.

you are on a mission to create meaningful and lasting impact. Impact that serves for generations to come.

you are open to integrating the mind, body and heart to process your thoughts.

you are no longer satisfied living a compartmentalized life. You want your work and life to be a full expression of yourself.

You shouldn't consider working with me if,

you are generally content with where you are at.

you don't believe in investing in yourself.

you don't see contribution to something greater than yourself as important.

you don't trust yourself to produce the next level of meaningful outcomes.

Self-initiated commitment is required when outcomes are not guaranteed.

you are looking for shortcuts and hacks. It's all about speed.

Fast solutions to almost anything are available online. The depth of my work will be painfully slow for you.

you are not willing to self-inquire and question your own belief system.

People that already have all the answers don't want me to ask the questions.

you are not able to laugh at yourself from time to time.

I'm seriously committed to my work. AND. I like to have fun too.