During those same 30 years I have also been fired, laid-off and quit. I’ve gotten married (and divorced) twice. Earned Master Integral Coach™ certification. Dealt with depression, anxiety and an addictive personality.

I rode the dot com bubble… until it burst. Started two chapters of Conscious Capitalism, willing the powers of Capitalism to shift their aim towards elevating humanity.

Friends and family have died. The way I hold my sense of self has died, multiple times. One of the more profound shifts in my sense of self happened when my two beautiful children were born. And my sense of self has been shattered, my heart broken open in love and loss too many times to count.

Somewhere along the way I learned that we must continuously develop new ways of seeing ourselves and the world around us. The ways we live, work, and play are always changing, inviting us to maintain a “beginner’s mind” or “growth mindset” in order to keep pace with a rapidly evolving world.

In both my own developmental work and while working with leaders in their fields, I have come to understand that we are our own biggest impediment to achieving our most desired outcomes. Or shall I say, our current way of being is what gets in our way most often. This is simply the nature of transformational work.

It is called transformation as we find our current way of being no longer serving us. At these moments, we must undergo a metamorphosis as we learn to let go of our tried and true ways and develop new capacities and competencies in order to continue forward in new, more discerning, more connected, more kind, loving, regenerative, sustainable, and effective ways.

I love working with visionary change leaders toward becoming greater stewards of the spark of life, developing our full humanity, and caring for the living systems of the planet, on behalf of future generations.