ABOUT ME
Former PE investor and operator.
Now focused on how leaders operate under sustained pressure—and winning the inside game that decides whether striving to achieve ambitious goals holds or erodes.
Why:
I work with leaders in high-demand private-equity environments to achieve ambitious outcomes while operating in a way that strengthens both performance and the individual and teams striving to achieve it.
Work Experience:
- 20-year private equity investor
- PE Firm founder
- Multiple-time PE CEO
- Advisor and consultant
- Board Chair
Signature Strengths:
- Perspective
- Fairness
- Forgiveness
- Hope
- Humor
MY WORK
I support private equity-backed executives and sponsors in producing extraordinary investment returns by unlocking exceptionally positive levels of individual and organizational performance.
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EXECUTIVE COACH
I guide private equity-backed executives in mastering the evidence-based practices of wellbeing and positive leadership that are the foundation for achieving ambitious individual goals, building durable resilience, and unlocking exceptionally positive levels of organizational performance. In the process, my coachees learn and develop practices that cultivate inner tranquility and harmony and create a positive ripple effect on colleagues, families, friends, and communities.
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EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
I support the success of the CEO; engaging with them as an active partner and counselor in the stewardship of the business. I act as a champion of the value-creation process, working with the CEO and private equity sponsor in aligning execution with strategy, bringing performance management systems and tools to bare, and ensuring attention is focused toward working “on” the business, rather than “in” the business.
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INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR/OBSERVER
I cultivate high-performance boardroom dynamics and effective, thoughtful, and timely decision-making by bringing reason, equanimity, and judgment to the deliberations of private equity-backed company boards in both fiduciary and non-fiduciary roles.
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INTERIM EXECUTIVE
I enhance private equity portfolio returns by shepherding private equity-sponsored companies during times of transition in interim CEO, COO, and CFO roles. In certain cases, this includes guiding underperforming companies to local maximum outcomes during the period preceding a transaction that unlocks the value.
“Get busy with life’s purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue – if you care for yourself at all – and do it while you can.”
– MARCUS AURELIUS, THE PHILOSOPHER KING
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The work I'm called to do includes coaching private equity-backed executives and providing independent director, executive chair and interim executive services to the private equity-backed companies they shepherd.
Independent Director, Executive Chair and Interim Executive Services for private-equity backed companies.
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