After a 35-year career working for a variety of organizations, I have started my own business to work with executive teams, individual executives, and aspiring leaders to help them achieve success.   

Early in life I served as a junior officer onboard the USS Bergall (SSN-667), a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine.  Leadership lessons came fast and furious in these formative years.  I later worked for the largest utility company in North Carolina where I qualified as a senior reactor operator at one of its nuclear power plants.  My 25+ years in the pharmaceutical industry included several roles for consulting companies as well as Eli Lilly and Co.  My last 15 years were spent in a variety of executive roles that included Operations, Marketing, Strategy, Finance, and HR.  During this time, I also served 8 years on a board of directors for a 20,000-member professional society.  I later was hired by this same organization to be the interim CEO (a six-month tenure that saw the Covid-19 pandemic drastically change the operating model for the organization).

I am a graduate of North Carolina State University (B.S. Mech Eng.), a licensed professional engineer in North Carolina and a Certified Pharmaceutical Professional.  I graduated from Georgetown's Institute of Transformational Leadership with a Certificate in Executive Leadership Coaching and am credentialed by the International Coaching Federation as an Associate Certified Coach.