Author of When Success Stops Working | Executive Coach & Strategic Advisor

Serving Wake Forest, Raleigh, Durham, Cary & the greater RTP region

I wrote When Success Stops Working for the people I coach: leaders who built something real and then hit the moment the old formula stopped delivering. Not failure — something subtler. What once created momentum starts creating friction. What once felt aligned starts feeling heavy. From the outside, it still looks like success.

I spent nearly thirty years in Silicon Valley building products and teams — most notably at Cisco — before founding my own company. The frameworks in the book come from that work, and they shape how I coach today: honest reflection, practical strategy, and the discipline to build what comes next.

This is not traditional golf instruction. It's leadership coaching elevated by the fairway.

From Silicon Valley to a Private Performance Lab

Coaching has always been part of how I work. Across nearly three decades in technology, I coached teams, mentored emerging leaders, and built high-performing organizations. Developing people was never separate from the job — it was the job.

When my family and I moved to Wake Forest, I discovered a long-neglected Par-4 hole hidden on our property. What started as a clearing project became a leadership metaphor brought to life:

• Strip away the noise

• Rebuild the foundation

• Create a space where clarity can thrive

• Commit to the next right shot

Today that private fairway is a performance environment where leaders work through pressure, transition, and reinvention — the breakthroughs that rarely happen behind a desk.

My Coaching Philosophy

Leadership isn't built by sitting still — it's built in motion.

Golf exposes decision patterns, mental traps, and strategic tendencies. When leaders step onto the tee box, they reveal how they actually lead: how they assess risk, prepare for uncertainty, adapt after a setback, communicate intent, and handle pressure. On the fairway, those patterns become visible — and coachable.

My job is to help you translate on-course decisions into real-world leadership behaviors that hold up back at work.