My journey.
My work sits at the intersection of business, consciousness, human development, embodiment, emotional honesty, and the practical art of living well.
For a long time, I thought those were separate worlds. I no longer do.
The search began with loss.
At twenty-four years old, my father died.
His death was sudden, traumatic, and life-changing. Until then, I had been focused on many of the same things that occupy most young adults: education, career, relationships, and the future.
His death interrupted all of that.
For the first time, I found myself confronting questions that my education, upbringing, and culture could not answer. Questions about meaning. Questions about consciousness. Questions about suffering. Questions about what remains when everything we assume to be permanent suddenly is not.
What began as grief gradually became a search.
to seeking integration.
A long inquiry into consciousness and human development.
Over the next three decades, I immersed myself in a wide range of disciplines and traditions.
I studied meditation, non-duality, human development, psychology, consciousness exploration, and the nature of human transformation.
My contemplative training included years of meditation practice, extensive silent retreat work in the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition, Monroe Institute programs, self-inquiry, and the study of non-dual teachings from both Eastern and Western traditions.
Like many seekers, I spent years fascinated by questions of awakening, enlightenment, and the deeper nature of reality.
And while those questions remain important to me, something unexpected happened along the way. My attention began to shift.
Knowing is not the same as becoming.
Increasingly, I became interested in a different question:
Why do human beings continue to suffer even when they know so much?
Why do intelligent people continue to repeat the same patterns? Why do successful people still feel empty? Why do spiritually sophisticated people still struggle in relationships?
Why do we separate physical health, emotional wellbeing, psychological development, and spiritual growth as though they belong to different worlds?
The more I explored, the more I came to believe that lasting growth requires integration.
Not just insight. Not just knowledge. Not just awakening.
Integration of mind, body, emotion, relationship, community, meaning, and behavior. Because we do not live life in pieces. We live it as whole human beings.
I have come to believe that wisdom is not measured by what we know. It is measured by what we can embody.
Business was part of the training too.
At the same time, another journey was unfolding.
Professionally, I spent more than thirty-five years in business, leadership, entrepreneurship, and private equity.
I served as CEO, COO, board member, advisor, and operator. I worked with founders, investors, executives, attorneys, analysts, and leadership teams across multiple industries.
From the outside, it might seem like a completely different world from meditation retreats and consciousness exploration. I no longer see it that way.
The boardroom and the meditation hall reveal many of the same things: fear, ambition, identity, attachment, self-deception, courage, and growth.
Business gave me a front-row seat to human behavior under pressure. Contemplative practice gave me a way to examine those same dynamics from the inside.
Experience and training.
Professional Experience
- 35+ years in business, leadership, entrepreneurship, and private equity
- Former CEO, COO, Board Member, and advisor
- Four private-equity-backed C-suite leadership roles
- Multiple successful business exits
- Executive coaching and leadership advisory work
Education & Training
- PhD in Human Development
- Certified Transpersonal Hypnotherapist
- Certified in Transpersonal Breathwork
- Extensive silent retreat experience in the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition
- More than two decades of consciousness exploration and contemplative practice
- More than twenty years of participation in Monroe Institute programs
Helping people find their way back home to themselves.
Today, my work sits at the intersection of these worlds.
I am interested in helping people learn to see more clearly, live more honestly, and develop a deeper relationship with themselves.
Not through dogma. Not through ideology. Not through spiritual performance.
But through discernment, embodiment, emotional honesty, meaningful community, and the willingness to engage life directly.
The central theme running through all of my work is simple: helping people find their way back home to themselves.