Over the Years  

In a paragraph, my life has been devoted to discovering & teaching the pragmatic steps of applied-transformation. Personally, I have known pain & trauma, including physical, emotional and sexual (a neighbor) abuse. I have experience with the layers of transformation. For several years now, my Circle-of-Trust involves “personal” weekly 1-1’s and groups for our shared loving & growth. Through it all, I realize that the life & service into which I am now emerging is why I am here. I am very alive. It is my time. 

This is something we all share. It is our time to be very alive, to more powerfully show up in creating the change & growth for the cultural transformation that is calling us.

The tone for my unwavering heart training began in athletics. One of my early mentors was Hubie Brown, the HoF NBA coach. He was my football coach at Fair Lawn High School. He modeled how to lead with love and wisdom. Earning a football scholarship and captaining the wrestling team at the University of Connecticut, I was then mentored by HoF football coach Lou Holtz. He demonstrated fully showing up with heart all of the time, not just on the field of athletics.

My services started as a Program Director with inner-city, adolescent, second-offenders in the legal system. This was an initiation with no safety net in dealing with challenging situations that were screaming for resolutions. Already emerging were the ways that expanding consciousness was a fundamental factor for containing out-of-control situations so progress could develop toward sustainable solutions.

I then served as a Psychotherapist, LCSW, both in private practice and clinical settings, including alcohol and drug rehabilitation.  I realized the need for developing the additional skills for making a greater difference in helping clients with their seeming out-of-control situations. Over time, I felt constrained by the useful but limited models of psychotherapy.

So I left my clinical work and added additional perspectives and tool-sets for providing a more interactive service. I then served as an Executive Tactical Advisor with corporate executives. Our focus included developing the awareness and skills for understanding people & situations, and ways to foster communication with heart and understanding in any situation.

I then served as a Trusted Advisor with business & community leaders for releasing fixed beliefs / perspectives / behaviors that are keeping you stuck, generating innovative perspectives, determining effective strategies, uncovering resources, … ...

I am currently serving as an Unwavering Heart Mentor. While continuing to be a confidential sounding board, we focus on expanding your awareness, identifying & aligning with your values, deepening your emotional intelligence, and creating a bridge into the new chapter of your personal & work life.

My history of service chronicles empowering countless Leaders, both individually and in groups, to fully show up in facing and improving their situation(s) with wisdom and compassion.

I've a lifetime of relationships with Consciousness Pioneers, including working on a clinical team for 2 years with David R. Hawkins, MD, PHD, author of Power vs Force … and a decade of applied-study with Charlotte Selver, the originator of Sensory Awareness Practice … as well as contributing to several projects for expanding consciousness with Gay Hendricks, PhD, author of The Corporate Mystic.

Maturing & balancing my inner Masculine & Feminine dynamics has also been a lifelong process. My masculine qualities were inspired early on. Athletics taught me laser focus, strategy, and how to win in high level competition. Critical thinking and analysis was natural for me too. Yet during my university years, I realized something significant was missing in my life. After graduation, I started working with a psychotherapist. This helped release my feminine qualities. I remember the first time he asked me what I was feeling about something that mattered to me. It seemed like that was the first time anyone had asked me that question like they meant it. I was stunned, mentally & emotionally. It took me awhile to begin experiencing the felt-sense of feelings. Meditation then began a lifelong discovery into the levels of applied-mindfulness. This opened a portal to my lifelong R&D, research & development, for expanding & applying the principles of consciousness in all of my life. Maturing & balancing my masculine & feminine qualities has been foundational for my ongoing transformation.

What has helped me embody these experiences has been 2 decades of living near, and working closely with, the Indigenous people of the USA and Brazil. By living close to nature, I have experienced ways to sense and develop my Unwavering Heart, while living it during my day to day.

I’ve published 2 books as a way of developing research and sharing insights - Unwavering Heart: 5 Keys to Living with Fierce Authenticity 2014, and Unwavering Heart: 5 Keys to Living Your Destiny 2017. MY NEXT BOOK is being drafted through my articles and blogs, Unwavering Heart: Transforming Overwhelm into Conscious Leadership (draft title) 2025.