Who
are you
becoming?
The Heartist's Way
Coaching takes courage. Yours to look straight at your starlight and illuminate your blind spots. Mine to hold a safe space, get out of the way, and speak truth to power.
The word courage comes from the Middle English corage, the Old French corage, the Vulgar Latin coraticum, and cor, the Latin word for heart.
How much attention are you paying to your heart's calling? How carefully are you listening to your bright inner self? The heartist's way is the way less traveled.
Entering a coaching relationship takes courage. Courage to know what you want or admit that you don't, be challenged, unlearn and learn anew. Choose your coach from your gut, your heart. If it's a go, say yes the heartist's way.
My clients are ambitious, motivated, committed, energetic, fun, and courageous. They want to see their wildest dreams come true. What about you? I, too, will go the heartist's way.
I am born a salesman. It would be too easy to pitch you the benefits of coaching. Chat GPT can do it too. I won't. Instead, I will give you a taste of coaching. Not a sample taste. A real taste. If you are committed enough to yourself to block two hours in your calendar next week, I'll coach you. And then, we'll both know if we are meant to work together—no strings attached.
The "future you" is just a click away.
Yoda Minds
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present, you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet.
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Don't Start With Why
Granted, you may question my sanity at this very moment, but trust me on this:
"Don't start with why!"
Or, to put it in a less iconoclastic fashion:
"Don't "just" start with why!"
Noticing purpose bloating, purpose washing, and purpose myopia, I questioned Simon Sinek's claim that "purpose" was the silver bullet. After all, his famous TED conference is not so much a talk on leadership as it is a masterclass on salesmanship:
"People don't buy what you do;
people buy why you do it."
- Simon Sinek
I have trained, advised, and coached hundreds of sales executives and salespeople.
No, you can't always trust a sales pitch!
Over the last ten years, I have researched and come up with refreshing and challenging perspectives on leading purposeful transformations.
Now, this changes everything:
"Inspiring leaders start with why;
For what's next, we ask: SO WHAT?"
For an executive retreat,
A shareholder or a board meeting,
IRL or on zoom,
Once a public speaker, always a public speaker.
There is a masterclass I love to facilitate.
It was prototyped during the COVID-19 pandemic:
"Develop the Jedi's
three mental habits
to thrive in challenging times."
With his blessing, the workshop draws on the work of CEO coach and Positive Intelligence founder Shirzad Chamin.
It will inspire and empower everyone in your organization.
It will deliver results.
Yes, I am on fire.
Can you tell?
IRL or on zoom.
And finally, your talk!
To lead transformations is to revise the script. Storytelling is a strategic skill in your leadership toolkit. When the stakes are high for a keynote address, an investor presentation, or a strategic pitch, all eyes turn to you. With a blend of executive coaching, training, and consulting, I get you to sharpen your skills and boost your confidence as a strategic, effective communicator.
Here is the tale of how entrepreneur, artist, and world-record-holding adventurer Theodore Fairhurst took his talks to a higher level.
The stage is yours.
Inspire Forward
If
Blind in the darks of the maze
And burning in the flesh
Of open wounds
If you can exercise
Your free will
And call the White Dragons
For them to help
Throw your fears in the flames
And intervene
For your healing
If you can
Here, now
Forgive and love
And free yourself
And heal
The broken child within
If you can
Far and wide
Deploy
Your majestuous wings
The right
Devoted to the Light
The left
Devoted to the Rose
And balance both
In harmony
And take off
Fly high into the winds
Above the walls
If you can
Give yourself
The gift of forgiving
And of empowering
All sisters
And brothers
For in loving them
It is you
You're loving
Stop
And inspire within
If you can
Do nothing
Stay still
Listen
And inspire within
And let light
And let grace
Penetrate
Exist
And radiate within
And through
You
If
Open eyes
open heart
You keep amazed
And resonate
With the beats of beauty
Here, around, within
And the bits of magic
Of Divine creations
If you learn gratitude
Every day say thank you
Awaken
Bend space
Bend time
And see that all that's right
Is left
And all that's left
Is right
If you can let it flow
You forgave
You can give
It's time to let abound
Do it
Now
And if you can become
Anew as once you were
Polish your divine gifts
Shine, thrive
Enlighten your powers
And honor Creator
Then
My Child
You will have accomplished
Your first
Of many miracles
Then
New and welcomed to the flock
Bright, powerful White Dragon
In turn, you'll teach
In turn, you'll heal
And
