Understanding. Clarity. Connection.
Unlock your extraordinary, and accomplish what you envision.
An approach to leadership coaching that moves beyond traditional strategies and frameworks, creates a space that invites deeper exploration, and to shed what no longer serves you.
I work with leaders who understand that the impact they create in the world is inseparable from their inner journey. By turning toward their own self-exploration, they open up space to question long-held beliefs and soften deeply rooted emotional patterns. This creates a natural flow of alignment, connection, and fulfillment that extends from their personal lives into their work and leadership.
From emerging leaders of business and community, to leaders of U.S. Olympic teams, entrepreneurial ventures, and F100 technology companies… my clients commonly share one attribute: a want to prepare for, adapt to, or be the change.
I’m known for my ability to meet highly creative and analytical minds with curiosity and presence — engaging forms of intelligence that go beyond the intellect. My approach isn’t about offering solutions or advice. Instead, I follow my clients’ natural curiosity, asking questions that spark profound insights and bring their own inner wisdom into focus.
This is a shared practice: an exploration in trusted partnership, and our measure of success is simple — we’re enjoying the process, and you’re walking away with clarity, deeper freedom, and actionable insights that truly matter.
We don’t just seek the bright side of things.
We’re willing to step into the discomfort to:
• Explore the dynamics in relationships and teams
• Unpack assumptions and hidden beliefs
• Identify patterns that cloud decision-making
• Expand emotional range and capacity to be with intensity without shutting down
When you are ready, let’s have a conversation about your envisioned change, and sketch-out a tailored approach to how we might work together.
A simple, dynamic approach tailored to you.
Successful coaching collaboration explores to gain understanding, creates clarity, and deepens connection to who we are. In turn, behavior shifts and action toward your inspired vision and enduring change takes shape.
We work together through a process of reflective inquiry to develop a holistic understanding of the challenge, envisioned outcome, and the connections or obstacle(s) in thinking that are limiting progress. The work is fun, can be challenging, and will be an experience!
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1: Challenge & Objective
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2: Situation, Context, Goals
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3: Development Plan & Actions
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4: Recalibrate, Refine, Track
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5: Assess, Reflect, Long-range plan
What your program might look, sound, and feel like is determined by what you are currently experiencing, and how you envision that experience being different. You may even have an idea what you believe may be impeding or limiting your ability to realize that vision, in which case we can begin from there.
1:1 Sessions
We work together during scheduled sessions - in-person or virtual - through a process of reflective inquiry to develop a complete understanding of the challenge, envisioned outcome, and the connections or obstacle(s) in thinking that are limiting progress. What your program might look, sound, and feel like is determined by what you are currently experiencing, and how you envision that experience being different.
Organized Progress
The Private Client System (PCS) plays an important supporting role in your coaching experience, accountability to your development plan, and provides you with a living record of the work we do together. View our session notes, see your trends and progress, gain insights, complete exercises, schedule sessions and check-ins, self-paced pathways, and see each of our interactions as well as your entire engagement history.
All About You
While every coaching program is challenge-focused, each client situation is different. Your situation and envisioned outcome is uniquely yours, and the development plan we co-create together is planned accordingly. The structure and consistency of your scheduled sessions, and the momentum the process creates for you, provides the space for us to make significant change in a cumulative way.
I’ve noticed something remarkable about the leaders I work with.
No matter how deep their experience or wide their expertise — there’s something else quietly guiding their choices.
It’s not a tactic, a credential, or even a mindset.
It's a fire that can’t be taught.
It’s a passion.
Not to lead for the sake of being in charge.
But to live leadership as a way of being.
For them, leadership isn’t a role. It’s a commitment. A calling. It’s how they engage with the world — curious, purposeful, and in service to others.
I see it in how they listen, how they challenge themselves, how they show up when it matters most. And honestly, it inspires me every time.
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"Thomas stayed with me, every step of the way, creating a safe space for me to open up, question where I needed the push to face my blockers, and acknowledge my progress where necessary to fuel me to keep going. Thomas’ calm presence allowed me the time and space to unravel what I was battling and what I needed to do next to overcome my own obstacles."
Maya S.
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"Thomas’s coaching was invaluable for my career. His outside perspective helped me identify and get over the barriers of communication that were holding me back. His experiences and thoughtful perspectives helped challenge me to become a much more effective leader."
Cooper T.
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"Thomas literally changed my life. I cannot thank him enough for his compassion, patience, motivation and guidance. He allowed me to explore areas of my consciousness that I had not tapped into for a while, shifting my sense of disconnection to optimistically developing new habits that have helped me evolve into who I was born to be."
Joshua S.
We know we are capable of anything, yet breakthrough moments seem random and attainable only through relentless persistence.
And when they do happen, we feel relief to have found a way, and frustration that it took so long.
At a high point in my career of leadership and executive roles in media and technology, a life-altering breakthrough was set in motion after being air-lifted out of the Cascade Mountains with a life-threatening injury. The pace of my professional and personal life came to a full stop. Recovery was a challenging experience, and presented hard questions about meaning and purpose.
The self-realization came into focus after immersive study of self-determination theory, neurolinguistics, cognitive behavioral therapy, and positive psychology.
To help others learn how to effectively approach the challenges that shape who we are, and want to become.
Today, I work with leaders at every level determined to live at their best and make the most of their talents and gifts. Through change, to purpose, by way of personal discovery and development of possibility. And empowerment to move toward their vision of enduring change and meaningful impact.
I do not have all the answers, but I do know how to ask the right questions. And I look forward to our conversation about what you are working toward, and how we might work together to realize your vision.
I get it. Your role makes it difficult to create time for personal growth and breakthroughs.
Significant change requires deep work.
Client programs are challenge-focused with 60-90 minute coaching sessions scheduled 1-2x per month for approximately 3-6 months. However, each client situation is different and planned accordingly.
The structure and consistency of scheduled sessions, and the momentum the process creates, provides the space to make significant change in a cumulative way.
Let’s have an initial conversation to learn about your goal or intention, determine if we can help move you toward that objective, and how we might work together.
If you would like to have that conversation, let’s connect!
“ Neither coach nor leader can adapt and change until we are willing to step onto the balcony and gain new views of ourselves. ”
Pamela McLean
“ Some people use language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead. Your mind was given to you to create the person you want to be. ”
Steve Chandler
“ Remember how long you’ve been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn’t use them. At some point you have to recognize what the world is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return. ”
Marcus Aurelius