Our Services

As a senior leader and executive at Vanguard as it grew from managing US$500 billion to over US$5 trillion, I saw first-hand that success comes from building and developing high-performing teams, a commitment to deliberate practice, and leading with ethics and humanity.

High Performing Teams

Sustained uncommon performance requires teamwork and team members must be committed to both, their own excellence and the overall success of the team, a combination that requires a clear purpose and clear outcomes as well as a culture rooted on trust and accountability.

  • How do you go from hiring individuals to building a team?

  • How do you foster absolute trust amongst team members?

  • Is success measured and rewarded for individual or team performance?

Deliberate Practice

Mastery is attainable only through deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is a disciplined approach that starts with highly specific hypotheses, repetition-based feedback loops, and objective assessments.

  • Are your goals and objectives general or highly specific and quantifiable?

  • Have you established correlation and/or causation to validate your efforts?

  • Is your approach to execution narrow and focused?

Human Leadership

Leadership is more often being confused with direction. While clear direction is important, it is not leadership. Leadership is a human skill that blends a deep understanding of the task at hand with a genuine caring of those involved to activate passion, commitment, and resilience.

  • Is your leadership culture directing tasks or enabling performance?

  • Is mission and purpose a cornerstone to your motivation and recognition?

  • Do you know the difference between leading employees and leading people?

Choose from these three ways to engage:

  • Strategic Consulting

    Do you have pockets of disengagement? Is performance varied and/or inconsistent? Not sure if you have the right team? Overwhelmed with competing priorities and limited resources? Dealing with high turnover and/or constantly losing top-talent? Struggling to meet your objectives? Lagging behind your competition?

    A strategic consulting engagement will help you establish root causes, a measurable action plan, and a plan to develop the skills necessary to sustain success in the longterm. This approach includes an initial consultation with key stakeholders to establish clear objectives and measures of success; a scheduled set of work sessions to understand key concepts in context; and a close-out session to define best practices for ongoing ongoing reinforcement.

  • Executive Coaching

    Struggling to break through in your own performance, or simply looking for expert guidance to help you reach your highest potential?

    As a lifelong learner I have come to realize that no book however well-written and no story however well-told will impart as much as lessons learned through your own blood, sweat, and tears. Through individualized one-on-one executive coaching sessions, we guide others to developing their own personal laboratory through which they can embark on a lifelong personal and professional development journey.

  • Crisis Management

    Dealing with a major crisis or the sudden departure of a senior leader? Facing sudden changes in your industry and/or the regulatory landscape necessitating an immediate pivot?

    Risk is unavoidable and can materialize at any moment. When time is of the essence, I can take the wheel and put my extensive experience as a senior executive with proven results in the most challenging circumstances to work for you.

For companies and Non-Profits…

I work with small and large companies, commercial and non-profit, private and public.

For individuals…

Whether you are a seasoned executive or starting out in your career, these concepts and best practices will help you improve your performance.

For universities & Community Groups…

Content can be designed as single-session seminars and workshops or as multi-session courses. I also work with community centers, church groups, and similar organizations committed to the growth and development of their members.