Private advisory
Long-term counsel for founders, CEOs, and investors.
I work one-on-one with a small number of leaders whose lives and work have become too complex for simple answers.
A decision can touch the business, money, family, relationships, ambition, and what you want next. You need someone who understands how those things fit together.
Some thoughts need to be spoken while they are still unfinished, uncertain, or difficult to make sense of.
They work with you, love you, depend on you, invest with you, or have their own history with what happens next.
After enough time inside a situation, certain patterns, assumptions, and compromises become hard to notice.
Success gives you choices. At some point, where you place the next five or ten years becomes one of the most consequential questions you can ask.
I want to understand more than the issue in front of us. Your business, the people around you, your ambitions, pressures, relationships, history, and what you want from the life you’re building. The better I understand the whole picture, the better we can judge what actually matters.
We don’t start over every time we talk. Over time, I see how you think. Where your instincts are unusually good. Where you tend to get in your own way. What gives you energy. What clouds your judgment. That accumulated understanding is what allows us to get to the real issue quickly.
When something important comes up, you already have someone who understands the background. You don’t have to start from zero or explain the entire situation before getting to what actually matters. The longer we work together, the less you have to explain.
I’ve spent most of my adult life studying how people think and perform when the stakes are high.
That began in sport. I played professional lacrosse and was a top-10 Major League Lacrosse draft pick. For the past 15 years, I’ve worked one-on-one with founders, CEOs, investors, professional athletes, and people carrying unusual levels of responsibility.
The longer I’ve done this work, the less interested I’ve become in formulas and the more interested I’ve become in the person. How they think. What they avoid. Where their judgment is unusually good. Where they get in their own way. What they actually want to create with their lives.
That same curiosity has taken me through more than 400 conversations on What Got You There, three books, and thousands of hours reading across business, investing, psychology, philosophy, biography, and performance.
I still consider myself a student.
I listen closely. I ask a lot of questions. I pay attention to patterns, contradictions, and the things that are difficult to see when you’re standing in the middle of your own life.
Over time, that is what I try to give the people I work with: a clearer view of themselves, their situation, and what actually matters to them.
An essay on how I approach my craft. Lessons learned spending thousands of hours of private work with CEOs, founders, investors, and professional athletes.
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Episodes
Years Running
What Got You There is where I sit down with world-class performers — billionaire entrepreneurs, Olympic champions, Navy SEALs, bestselling authors — to uncover the mindsets, habits, and turning points behind their success.
These aren't surface-level interviews. They're deep explorations of what it actually takes to operate at the highest level — the same insights that inform my executive coaching and leadershipdevelopment work.
I keep the practice intentionally small and take on new relationships selectively. If you think there's a fit, let's have a conversation.
I personally review every application · Expect a response within 48 hours · Fully confidential
