I've spent 30 years helping people find clarity, their sense of purpose, and deep connection in their relationships.

While I loved sports and had a strong relationship with my father, I grew up surrounded by women: my mother, my three sisters, my two grandmothers and six female cousins. Long before I had language for it, I learned to listen, to read a room, and to be strong without needing to be loud.

That listening became a career. I spent 4 years as a teacher and soccer coach. I spent 13 years in youth ministry and another 13 planting and pastoring a church. I taught adolescent sociology as an adjunct professor and earned a master's in education. I wrote seven books. Through all of it, I kept noticing the same thing: good people, stuck in the same patterns, having the same fight in a different room.

In 2019 I made coaching my full-time work. Since then I've coached leaders in Nashville and around the world: CEOs, founders, attorneys, Grammy-winning musicians, pro athletes and the HR teams who bring me in to help their C-suite effectively communicate.

Today I live outside Nashville, Tennessee. I'm a father of six (counting two daughters-in-law) and a grandfather of two. I still read a book a month, and I still believe the most important conversations are the ones we've been avoiding.