THE BUSINESS OWNER’S COACH
WE CREATE CHANGE
I look across the conference room table at James. He looks tired. He’s hustled his entire life to build a successful business. He’s acquired enough wealth that his family wants for nothing. Yes, James seems to have it all—but “having it all” has come at a price. His work life is eroding his real life. Stress is so familiar he just accepts it. His modus operandi is no longer producing the results it once did.
If you can relate to James, we should talk. I work with people like James, who after focusing so intensely on business and financial success for so long, realize there’s more. And they’re ready to dream big again.
My clients change fundamentally. People start talking about the “old me” and the “new me.” Their inner dialogues change, their businesses flourish beyond where they have been so far, and they become better partners and parents to their loved ones. They realize they have so much untapped potential, and I teach them how to find it.
The answers for meaningful change in your life, and your business or career, lie just beneath the surface.
WE CREATE BIG
You’ve already created big – a company, a career, a family. But what about the parts that got left behind? What about the pieces of you and your life that have suffered while you were building that company or that career?
I worked for years with the owner/ CEO, and with his family members and executives, of a large family business. Another client friend introduced us, saying to this high-octane CEO:
You take care of your customers, your employees, your wife, your children, even your ex-wife. Here’s someone who is going to teach you how to take care of you.
Successful business owners and others are avoiding the things they don’t have time for or don’t want to face. There are those who come to me because feel they are about to break. They’re great clients because they know they must change. They just don’t know how. They know they haven’t been able to do it by going alone.
Plenty of people figure that out before they get to the breaking point. They know they want to be better. They’re great clients too. Their entire world is about to change.
I want to be very clear. When people work with me, we are not futzing around. We have some fun. We work through struggles, and it’s not always easy at first. Know this: The work I do is engaging, uplifting, and incredibly forward moving. It is transformational.
There is No Template. You are the Agenda
Stress & Time
I don’t believe in stress. It’s optional, and a terrible idea. When it comes to how you spend your time and how you’re trying to operate within the time you have, most people have given up their own power. The cost to them is staggering. And they’re so in the habit of being busy and stressed they can’t see what’s right before their eyes.
Health & longevity
Not only stress, but the pace, and certain habits of thought, all take a much heavier toll over the years than people realize. Somebody says they’re 25 lbs. overweight. They’re really 40 lbs. over, and it’s killing them. This is not about going to the gym, hiring a trainer, or just eating better. It’s all of that, and way, way, way, bigger.
Feelings/ your experience of life
Feelings aren’t bad or wrong. They tell you where to look. They point you to the gold. If only you and I could sit for an hour and get inside what it is like for you each day. What feels good and what doesn’t. There are the happy, the satisfied, the proud, the love. There’s good stuff. And there are the fear, regret, stress, longing for things you don’t have, needing to fix things you don’t know how to fix. The weight of all of that is costing you your life. I don’t care if it’s 10% or 40% of your life experience. It’s not joy. It’s not bliss. On top of that, it's costing you a lot of money.
Relationships
Marriages become worn out. And they can’t get better without fundamental change. I help clients avoid divorce, get through divorce, get clear on what they want and will no longer promote, and how they need to be within themselves to create the relationships they want. Next come the children. Relationships may be broken or strained. And dad keeps bringing the very same version of himself to that party. How’s that going to work?
So much more
Business growth and profitability, leadership, career, transitions, succession, decision-making. People have things they want to be doing, places they want to be spending time, and much more, that they’ve been putting off and putting off. On some levels they’re confused, and exhausted.
I love what I do. Nobody does what I do the way I do it. Looking at the above, we change all that. “We” is the operative word. You don’t know how, you don’t have time, you haven’t yet been brought to your knees. If you knew how to fix it, you already would have. I know how to create the change you want. Starting with getting clear on what that change even is, and your commitment to creating it.
HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT?
Leadership succession
Relationships
Clarity
Decision Making
Peace
Joy
Grace
Wealth
Health & Fitness
Family Success
Simplification
Stress
Time
Communication
OUR FIRST CONVERSATION
I like to having conversations with business owners and executives to hear their stories, understand their challenges, and assess if our partnership is the right fit to help them achieve their goals.
They often tell me they’re yearning for something more. They have pain and have perhaps slowed down enough to realize something of pivotal importance.
Namely, whatever they have been doing isn’t getting them to where they want to go next. They’re often dealing with:
Business is stuck
Frustration
Worry
Friction
Lack of fulfillment or exhibiter
Relationships
Risk
Struggle
Stress
Transition
NOBODY DOES WHAT I DO THE WAY I DO IT
I have over 40 years of deep experience, including 19 years with Arthur Andersen where I was a partner specializing in family businesses. I worked directly with Dr. Leon Danco, the founding father of the field of family business consulting. I next opened, helped build, and led a trust company office of just under $1 billion in assets. I later became CFO and COO of an oil company. I created my coaching business 11 years ago.
I have a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Decades of business and financial experience serving executives, families, and their businesses, put me in a strong position. My understanding of psychology and “inside out” approach make me and my work with clients totally unique.
I see clients doubling their businesses, revamping their relationships, slowing down, and making better decisions from a place of clarity. Clients say our work is transformational — things like: “I could not be surviving right now if it weren’t for the work we have done together.” After our first session, one of my clients told me, “If I never get anything more than I got from that first session, it was worth the entire investment!”
AN INVITATION
If you see yourself in any of this. If you realize there are elements of your life, business, relationships, career, health, or anywhere else that aren’t quite working. Parts and pieces that are not what you know they need to be. And if you’re serious about learning how to create the change you want.
I invite you to reach out to me to schedule a conversation. My intention will be to make it the most important conversation you could have had at this point in your life. It won’t be a sales call. It will be about you and what you want to create!
IF YOU’RE SERIOUS ABOUT CHANGE, START HERE
Don’t just want results—commit to creating them.
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