For the past two decades, my professional roles have included educational consult, a family therapist/clinical psychologist, school administrator, school counselor, college adviser, teacher, school programs architect, golf coach. However, it was only in the past five years that I have articulated my personal mission--to help children flourish. It is my "why," my common, purposeful thread weaving through each of my professional roles. Now uncovered, and therefore conscious and intentional, it is my conviction to help children flourish that energizes me every day. This permeates my roles as a father and as a professional. I love the paired processes of learning and unlearning, creating and recreating, finding commonalities and expressing uniqueness, and affirming and challenging. I believe those processes are how "we," that is people, organizations and systems, grow and make stuff better. Because of the intersect of my "why" and my experience, the "stuff" I want to make better is schools. Too often, schools are not good places for learning, even if they once were, because they are imbalanced. That is, they learn, but forget to unlearn. They challenge, but don't affirm. They seek to do education like other schools, but ignore the unique aspects that make them different. I approach my mission by listening, asking, learning, sharing, and challenging. I am blessed to work at an organization, aligned with my mission, that allows me to do this every day. Schools return positive feedback that I have both affirmed what they knew, but challenged them to think differently, helped them do facilitate best practices, but expressed their unique identity, and faculty report feeling "listened to."
Listed skills include Educational Leadership, Nonprofits, Public Speaking, Teaching, and 11 others.
