Senior Coach
Boston, Massachusetts  |  USA

As a coach, facilitator, and strategist, I am the Senior Coach for Trusted Advisor’s coaching practice. I provide leadership and business development coaching, helping our professional services clients succeed by applying Trusted Advisor models and principles to real-life business situations.

A lawyer by trade, I have a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and practiced law in firms and in-house for 20 years. Since 1994, I have coached professionals and leaders at dozens of large organizations. My company, Strategic Relationships LLC, helps professionals build relationships that increase business, and enhance leadership capabilities through coaching and workshops.

My Trust Story

After practicing law in firms and a company, I started my own legal business in 1990, working for large companies and institutions. In a few years, I was getting a lot of project work from 15 public and private well-recognized companies.

At one point, when a large project ended, one of these companies offered me an in-house legal job. It was everything I would have wanted in a job, and at the time there were no new projects on the horizon.

Still, I chose to let the job go. I was on a path and decided to trust my gut, and trust in whatever was in store for me. And I was completely transparent with the General Counsel who offered me the job. I told him that the job was perfect, and that I had to turn it down.

It was the best move I ever made. New projects began to flow. That General Counsel told me a few years later that he thought I was making a huge mistake at the time, but that he respected my honesty and integrity. He still wanted me to be part of the team, even if I wouldn’t accept a position. That company became my largest legal client. But more importantly, a year later I started my coaching and training business, which led to my meeting Charlie Green a few years later, and my affiliation with Trusted Advisor Associates.

My Services

I assist with and provide coaching for the Trusted Advisor coaching practice, which helps managers and executives apply trust principles to real-life business situations and relationships. I also designed the original “Guided Learning to Master Trust,” an intensive coaching and e-learning program that teaches professionals to be trusted business advisors.

My Trust Temperament™

The Connector

INTERESTING FACT ABOUT ME

In the last several years, I’ve become addicted to pickleball. With a few others, we formed a group called the Polar Pickleballers, and we play in weather as low as 10 degrees, as long as it’s not wet, icy or snowy. Or too windy. I play only 2-3 hours a day, 6 days a week. Indoors is a backup. Never felt better, except for my elbow, knees and feet. And sometimes shoulders.

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