About me
At this life-stage I spend the majority of my work time advising or mentoring others. As I moved from mostly managing people 25 years ago to mostly helping them manage themselves and their organizations, the dominant thread has been connecting humans with their work and relationships. Frankl wrote of meaning as coming from love and from work, and I agree. My education mirrors that thinking, as I have advanced degrees in engineering and in organization development. Much of my work over the years has been supporting leaders and complex teams with strategic alignment with business outcomes, and building teams by directly addressing work that matters. Leaders do make a difference, as they provide context through engaging with the basic questions that all followers ask - where are we going, who is going with me, how will we get there, and knowing all this, what is the strength of my commitment? I believe lasting change comes from working on relationships and human behavior while our sleeves are rolled up planning and doing the work. I have worked with hundreds of leaders and led or consulted to myriad teams and organizations. I have been on the boards of three non-profits, and continue as supporting faculty for Pepperdine's international Master of Science in Organization Development program, where I have served with nine cohorts over a fifteen-year span. I am certified in Bass and Avolio’s Full Range Leadership and the Multifactor Leadership 360 (MLQ), Lominger Voices 360, Emotional Intelligence EQ-i, and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). While these instruments are all well researched and can enrich a leader’s journey, the challenge is to go beyond the cognitive games that keep us stuck in analysis, to discover the one or two things to attend to that becomes the difference that makes a difference, that leads to generative growth.
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