About me

Why I do this and why I get you.

Diagnostic Advisory, Empathetic Listening, and Strategic Systems.

Why me

I am the person I couldn't find.

I know what it feels like to need someone you cannot find.

I was raised in conditions that were supposed to produce a specific outcome. They nearly did. What interrupted that wasn't inspiration. Wasn't information. Wasn't the right program.

It was one person who had been somewhere real.

Who took the time to earn my trust, where I could finally understand the advantage and asset it was. Then build that for myself.

That's what I do.

Not because I decided to help people.

Because I am the person I couldn't find.

If you've read this far, there's a good chance you've been looking too.

Milestones

My life has included experiences many people spend their careers studying.

  • Multiple hospitalizations.
  • Multiple resuscitations.
  • Homelessness.
  • Attempts on my life.
  • Addiction.
  • Multiple arrests and incarcerations.
  • Poverty.
  • Physical disabilities and impairments.
  • False arrests.
  • Firsthand experience with institutional failure.

Those experiences gave me perspective.

They did not give me identity.

Professional / Personal milestones

My life has also been shaped by extraordinary opportunities to serve, study, teach, and lead.

  • Five-sport varsity athlete.
  • Two-sport collegiate athlete.
  • Division I athlete.
  • Aikido Black Belt.
  • Trained in Empathetic Communication.
  • Trained in Byron Katie's The Work.
  • Full-ride graduate research assistant.
  • Executive in 4 industries: Government, Non-Profit, Healthcare, Private Sector.
  • Managed a billion dollars in assets for NYC Government.
  • Former Assistant to the Commissioner of New York City Parks.
  • Assistant to the Chief of Staten Island, NYC Parks.
  • Assistant to the Chief of Brooklyn, NYC Parks.
  • Former Assistant to the Mayor of White Plains.
  • Previous Chamber President.
  • National Advocacy Board Member.
  • Congressionally Recognized.
  • Recipient of State Senate and State Assembly honors.
  • Journalist.
  • Published author.
  • Comedian — tried out for Last Comic Standing (horribly).
  • Non-Partisan Political Media Co-Founder.
  • Established an empirical methodology tested across more than fifty industries — and counting.
  • Recovery Adjacent Mentor.
  • Advocate for the marginalized.

Each chapter taught me something different.

Together, they taught me that people are rarely limited by a lack of strength.

More often, they are limited by carrying yesterday's truths into today's life.

My work is helping exceptional people recognize the difference.

Not by becoming someone else.

By finally removing what isn't true from themselves.

If something in you recognized itself—

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