I'm a transformational coach with specialties in executive and career coaching, divorce coaching, and personal development coaching and training. In a separate and unrelated practice, I'm also a licensed psychotherapist.

It's a deeply fulfilling career, and a blast. But it wasn't always this way.

In a former life, I was a successful but unhappy private equity executive. I'd had to claw my way there with the legacy of a broken home, family history of mental illness and addiction, and childhood homelessness pulling me in the other direction.

It turns out, that experience was exactly what I needed.

Together with extensive education and training, and an unusual obsession with research, it led me here, uniquely prepared to do one thing:

help people rebound from adversity to all-new levels of happiness, well-being, and performance. 

Mindfulness

Mindfulness meditation helps you cultivate awareness, curiosity, and acceptance—and the presence of mind to make the best decisions for ourselves even in the worst of times. I've been practicing for almost 25 years, and am a UCLA-certified mindfulness teacher. 

Hypnosis

Hypnosis lets your unconscious mind help you achieve your goals. It isn't always applicable, but it's very helpful for some clients. (And no, I couldn't make you quack like a duck or do anything else against your will.) I receive training that is only available to licensed professionals.

Research Whispering

It's my hobby to make connections between findings from different fields—neurobiology and social psychology, say—in ways that never occurred to the researchers themselves because of tunnel vision. Then I turn them into action plans for you.