Life and Business Coach
Experienced, certified professional coach to seasoned leaders in software and finance. I help people who know they aren’t living up to their true potential or aren't being recognized for it.
Business Coaching, Career Coaching, Life Coaching
It seems that my whole life has been about discovery, searching, questioning and clarifying. It started with managing and completing financial statement audits as a CPA, led to testing software and managing software releases as project manager, and online marketer for a well-known cloud computing platform.
Half way through my career I was disillusioned with the path I was on and worked with a coach to find something better. Through discovering my personal values I landed on part of my mission that I live into every day which is “bringing order chaos and clarity to confusion."
Along the way I mentored and managed teams of people while questioning what I saw, seeking to make sense of the world around me. Some people saw this as skepticism. Eventually I saw it as one of my super powers to reach the essence of things.
Rather than suppress or ignore my feelings, I followed them. I used the tiny inklings I had to inform the actions and experiments I took. From that, new paths began to unfold. One path opened up around coaching by signing up for an intensive, world class coach training program. It was rigorous, challenging to my core—and transformative. An idea I was initially very skeptical of.
I changed as a result of this program and I became convinced I could help others do the same. As I lived into bringing order and clarity to the chaos and confusion of my life and career I’ve learned, and deeply believe, that we can't get something new or change a situation until we ARE different.
By that, I mean we must live into and BE what we want to have instead of KNOW more about it through the illusive, tempting path of knowledge acquisition.
I help people BE the person they want and need to be to in order to achieve what they want in any situation.
Coaching Credentials
I am credentialed as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) through The Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation (ICF)--having coached more than 386 people in over 2,186 sessions. I am also continually coached and have received 250 hours of coaching from a variety of coaches.
I have worked with clients at the following levels
Leader, Emerging Leader, Team Manager, Manager
My clients work in departments such as
Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, Learning & Development, Marketing, Operations, Procurement, Product, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Sales, Security
My clients work in the following industries
Accounting, Banking, Engineering, Entertainment, Financial, Health Care, Information Technology, Investment Banking, Manufacturing, Marketing, Media, Software
My Clients
"I was amazed at how well John could help me get at the real issues that were blocking me, which was typically me getting in my own way. The coaching experience with him has helped me up my game and make me more productive, assertive and confident in my role. It was a great experience and I would recommend John to anyone. Even if you don't think you need the help, he's going to surprise you by what you get out of it."
"John is a great coach. He uses variety of methods - so that coaching with him is neither boring nor one size fits all - and despite my initial skepticism, he was quickly able to identify, how to work with me in an effective manner. He helped me a lot to gain self-confidence and better understanding of myself - which helped me at work as well as in my private life. Plus it was fun!"
"Before working with John my life was good, but I had no idea how much better it could be. I sensed that I wasn't living up to my true potential. I knew I was good at certain things and had some vague long term goals, but Id never made the time to articulate a crisp vision of the future I wanted or how I would get there. Working with John helped me discover the gap between my big dreams and executing on them. Previously Id had lots of great ideas and goals, but they never materialized. Through a variety of exercises and conversations, John helped me uncover and state my true values and priorities, and from them, create a mission statement and goals that were in alignment with them. It was awesome. I started to getting traction right away. In a matter of weeks I achieved goals I had been dancing around for years."
Education
I am credentialed as a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach through The Co-Active Training Institute and Professional Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation--having coached 387 people in more than 2,186 sessions. I am also continually coached and have received 250 hours of coaching from a variety of coaches. I also earned a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting from Biola University.
Professional Experience
My skills and expertise come from over 30 years of experience with people and organizations in a variety of industries. I’ve worked with individuals at companies of all sizes and industries--from start-ups to well known companies in the Fortune 100. Half of my career was in technology at EMC and Red Hat (the world’s largest open source software company).
I've worked in a variety of managerial and individual contributor roles including software testing, project management, marketing and leading teams. I've also worked in finance as a bank auditor (Wells Fargo), certified public accountant (Grant Thornton LLP), and financial reporting manager for a non-profit.