Twenty-Eight Years
I've Had the Same Conversation Ten Thousand Times. It Still Surprises Me.
People arrive with a document. They think the document is the problem. Twenty-eight years in, I can tell you it almost never is. Somewhere between the last promotion and the layoff, they stopped being able to describe themselves in a way that sounds like a person. They got fluent in a language nobody wants to hear. Ask them what they're actually good at and they go quiet. My job is getting the quiet part out.
- Ten thousand executives coached since 1998
- Founder and CEO, Notus Human Capital
- Author of Day Two: Stop Meaning To
- Built the Axiom Foundry on Franklin's Junto model
Executive Career Coaching
Positioning, targeting, recruiter access, and the offer conversation. We work until you land, not until a package runs out.
Speaking and Workshops
Emotional intelligence, career reinvention after fifty, and what AI is doing to the middle of the org chart.
The Axiom Foundry
Four days, twelve men, by invitation. Turning axioms you already believe into instincts you actually use.
Winning the Room
Interview performance, recorded and reviewed like game film. Your pace, your face, your first ninety seconds.
How I Work
I'll Tell You the Thing Your Friends Won't
Most career advice is polite, and polite advice keeps people stuck for years. What you actually need is somebody who has watched ten thousand versions of your situation and will say out loud which part of it is your own doing. That’s the whole service. Everything else is logistics.
I’ve watched the market turn on people three separate times. Once it was the economy. In 2020 it was a virus. Now it’s AI and a quiet, well-documented preference for hiring anyone under fifty. Every one of those waves produced the identical conversation in my office, which is how I know the work was never really about the market.
So we start with what you’re afraid to say. The gap, the firing, the fact that you hated the last job and it showed. We say it out loud, and then we build the version of your story that has that fact in it and still works. Candidates who do this stop sounding rehearsed. That’s the game.
Then we work on delivery. Not the resume. Anybody can rewrite a resume. Almost nobody will sit you down, record you answering the four questions that decide it, and make you watch it back. That part is uncomfortable and it’s the fastest thing I know.
28+ Years Coaching
What I Actually Believe
Emotional intelligence is not the soft part of the job. It's the part that decides everything else. I've watched candidates with worse résumés win because they made the hiring manager feel safe, and I've watched brilliant operators lose because they walked in performing certainty and left a room full of people quietly deciding they'd be a headache. You can learn this. It has mechanics, and the mechanics can be taught in an afternoon and practiced for the rest of your career.
- Say the hard thing before they find it
- Give value before you need anything
- Be the safe hire, not the impressive one
- Delivery beats documents, every time
Ten thousand people have done this work with me
