Welcome
To the rest of your life
“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
– Lao Tzu
Why I Coach
About Me
Hi, I’m Jesse. Thanks for showing up. Here’s a bit about me.
I’m a Leadership and Life Coach for people seeking to understand themselves and unfold their full potential. I grew up in Oklahoma and Ohio exploring nature, science, religion, music, sports, art, and language. I earned my BAs in Economics and International Relations at Stanford and my MPA in International Development at Harvard. I studied, worked, and lived abroad in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. I received my coaching training from the Co-Active Training Institute, one of the first and most respected professional coaching schools in the world that helped create and shape the field of coaching over 30 years.
Earlier in my career I launched and led several social impact organizations focused on all kinds of topics, including: HIV prevention , citizen diplomacy, tech entrepreneurship, and mindfulness education. I also worked for the Obama Campaign and the World Bank and spent 10 years advising social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, political candidates, and elected officials in the US and abroad. In 2020, I helped launch Elevate – an anti-racism and decolonization initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School.
For most of my adult life, I have been studying a variety of contemplative practices, spiritual traditions, and therapeutic modalities. Informed by these traditions, as well as my own health crisis and near death experience at age 31, I meet my clients – wherever they are and whatever they’re facing – with a holistic approach that serves their whole being.
I live with my wife and two kids in the Chicago suburbs on the shores of Lake Michigan where I enjoy family time outside, Salsa dancing in the kitchen, reading philosophy, writing poetry, watching sci-fi, and re-learning piano after 20 years. I am the grateful recipient of a heart transplant.
What I Do
Point to possibilities
There is no “I”. Only we. Together, we discover who you are, what you really want, and how to get out of your own way so that you can live your greatest life – a life of purpose, abundance, joy, creativity, wisdom, and freedom. Come with any topic. I coach you – the whole person. Your life is connected by one thread. If we pull on any part, we’ll get where you need to go.
Transform pain into power
Blending coaching methods, contemplative practices, and psychosomatic techniques rooted in ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience, I help you transform fear, guilt, shame, grief, and confusion into trust, power, love, creativity, and insight. You talk. I listen, ask questions, challenge your limiting beliefs, and invite you into a new story.
Translate power into purpose
I work with high-performing individuals and teams of all kinds who are curious, open, and hungry for change, who aspire to be brave, bold, and honest, who are ready to, first, take radical responsibility for their own lives and, then, act for the wellbeing of other people and the planet to create a more compassionate, just, and sustainable world.
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