From Tech Executive to Certified Professional Coach
From Muted Renegade to Coach.
I spent nearly 40 years in tech. Developer, engineering manager, product leader, eventually Chief Product Officer. I helped build real products with real teams, often across continents and time zones. By most measures, the career worked.
The part of me underneath it didn't.
I was successful on paper and quietly clock-watching on the inside. I lived for the next milestone, the next title, the next reason to feel like I was finally arriving. I rarely was. Somewhere along the way, the work I'd loved as a young engineer became a job I was performing rather than a life I was living.
It took being fired in 2023 — and a year of soul-searching with my own coach — to see what had happened. The voice I'd started with had been muted for decades, replaced by someone else's idea of what success looked like. I'd been a reluctant renegade in my own life, waiting a little too patiently to be heard.
Coaching is what I do now that I've stopped muting my renegade.
I’m an ACC-accredited coach by the International Coaching Federation, have two Master’s Degrees from NYU.
Why I do this work.
I work with thoughtful professionals who are quietly carrying the same recognition I once was. Most of them aren't in crisis. They're competent, accomplished, often well-respected — and aware that something underneath the success isn't tracking with who they actually are.
My job isn't to tell them what to do. They've had enough of that. My job is to help them hear the voice they've been muting, and to build the agency, mindset, and habits to lead from it instead.
I draw on positive psychology, mindfulness, and the lessons of four decades in leadership. But the deeper credential is that I've walked this road myself. I know how the muting happens. I know how reluctant the renegade can be when it finally starts to stir. And I know what it takes to stop muting it.
What the work looks like.
Each conversation starts with a clear question and ends with you a little closer to your own answer. Sometimes that means a concrete plan. More often it means a sharper sense of what you actually want, and what's been keeping you from it.
I'll ask you to dig. To challenge stories you've been telling yourself for years. To say the quiet thing out loud. I won't hand you answers — but I'll bring experience when it helps, and I'll stay in your corner while you do the work.
This isn't easy work. It's also the most worthwhile work I know.
Want to talk?
The first conversation is free and the only goal is to find out whether the work is right for you.