I've tested and coached students and their parents for 15 years. The work we’re doing at Thryve addresses a fundamental shift in the way the emerging workforce thinks and lives. Educators and employers describe a massive change. Can there be a graceful collision of a person's greatest strengths and the world's greatest needs? Can we merge what's best in the established marketplace with what's fresh in the emerging workforce? Yes and Yes! We're listening to students and grads and building the tools they ask for: personality and life event coaching reports and the ability to crowdsource the endless task of navigating the career ecosystem. And we're helping them to offer their vitality and passion to an economy that can use their ideas and values for good.

A part of Thryve Insights. Connecting students to their futures, each other and the workforceiOs / AndroidMobile and online tools to help- Students and emerging workforce understand and apply their unique strengths in work, life and play- Connect them with peer networks and career mentors

Strengths and vision alignment for C-level teams (and career coaching for their children by request)

Self-Employed General Contractor. In this firm and in other construction pursuits, I built office space, retail spaces, and restaurants for purveyors of bison, noodles, ice cream and fine coffee in the Southeast. Flipped 18 affordable homes in 18 months, concluding with a $1million+ luxury masterpiece. Employed and coached young men at risk as they navigated the balance between hope, hard work and grace.

Largest state funded technical education consortium in GeorgiaI helped to oversee initiatives of this State-funded consortium charged with developing technical education options for high school students.

Designed, planted and tamed landscapes at commercial properties and fine homes. Employed and coached men whose potential had been interrupted by addiction. Operated commercial greenhouses filled with seasonal color.

I watched a man from a lower class family, 2 years of self-supported college, and no money start and successfully run a site construction business. Instead of railing against the privileged and advantaged, he competed. I followed my first mentor and vicariously tasted the cost, passion, and rewards of business ownership. Eventually, I wrestled first-hand with the tension of sustaining a family institution vs. following an inner passion. Ultimately the drive and example of one determined man emboldened me to pursue my own calling. Thirty years after these photos were taken, he had weathered growing pains, economic downturns, the 1973 Fuel Crisis and Stagflation and subsequent recessions. He employed hundreds of people and touch millions of people through his completed projects. If he were alive today, his thryver strengths would be different than mine, but his determination and commitment to service and hard work live on.