As President of Syncopate Creative, LLC, I am a Performance Coach specializing in how professionals position and present themselves, their organizations, and their ideas. I am also an active member of The Oechsli Institute's Coaching Program helping financial advisors grow and better manage their practice. For 14 years, I served as Managing Director of Wealth Planning for PNC Wealth Management, with national responsibility for the strategic direction and delivery of estate and financial planning advice for high net worth clients. In this role, I was the primary architect and leader for PNC's highly-regarded Wealth Planning Group, which grew to 100+ planning specialists comprised of attorneys, CPAs, and certified financial planners.A former trusts and estates attorney at Archer & Greiner (now Archer), one of New Jersey's largest law firms, and Earp Cohn P.C., I taught Business Law as an adjunct professor for six years, and worked as Vice President for trusts and investment sales at several large banks. I authored (or co-authored) 13 articles for professional publications, have extensive experience as a professional speaker, and have been quoted by, and appeared in, numerous major media outlets.In my junior year at college, I took a hiatus for three years to study drums, xylophone, and timpani in New York with renowned teachers, Henry Adler and Morris Lang of the New York Philharmonic, both of whom are in the Percussive Arts Hall of Fame. I continue to play professionally in theaters, big bands, and cabarets; study theology and performance psychology; and play shortstop in competitive hardball leagues.Specialties: Performance and speech coaching; estate planning; business development; finding and developing talent; executive leadership; drums and percussion