Professional Background:

I’m a Leadership Coach, Fractional Consultant, and Coach Supervisor with experience ranging from non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 companies in fields spanning retail, healthcare, industrial, commercial, and insurance markets. I began his career developing software in 2006, and held various roles including as an embedded software developer, project leader, ScrumMaster, product and agile coach, engineering manager, and product director. The constant through that work has been my ability to help teams and leaders better understand their work, each other and themselves.

I have a passion for helping individuals and teams “unleash their awesome” to increase their performance, deliver exceptional results, and build products their customer love. Combining my Certified Team Coach certification from ScrumAlliance and my International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach credential, I have focused much of my practice on product teams and emerging leaders – those in the early stages of transitioning to a full-time management position – but have had a range of team and individual clients from vice presidents and directors, to educators and aspiring entrepreneurs.

In 2020, I became a Founding Partner of the Center for Coaching in Organizations and joined CCO’s Board of Directors in July 2021 as Treasurer before moving into the Board Chair role in November 2023. I’ve taken an active role in planning the CCO Summit and the Executive Coaching in Organizations Coach Training Program, most recently joining CCO’s Faculty as an instructor.

 I enjoy being outdoors, playing games of all types, tinkering on the guitar, cheering for the Packers and, most of all, spending time with my wife and two daughters. I’m a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and live in the Twin Cities.

Why I’m part of CCO:

I believe that everyone can benefit from working with an executive coach and want to increase the reach of coaching into more and more organizations. Having been with CCO since the early days, I see how CCO is uniquely positioned to tackle the current challenges organizations are facing today.  We have an amazing group of dedicated faculty and volunteers – each of them eager to expand the impact of CCO and coaching as a whole.

If we meet, you should ask me about:

Games! I love games of all types – table-top and board games, especially, but card games and video games, too. I’ve even given a presentation on using a board game to teach Agile concepts at multiple conferences and previously co-organized a monthly Agile Games Meetup group.