The Work Has Always Been the Same
I have spent more than thirty years walking into rooms that needed changing and leaving them better than I found them. From construction sites around the globe to corporate boardrooms, to youth programs in Houston, the work has always been the same: find the genius in the room and give it permission to show up.
I discovered my life's purpose in my thirties by doing something simple: I looked back at every job I'd ever held and asked what I loved most and what I did best. The answer was always the same: developing people. I named it "Unleashing Genius" and have been proving it ever since.
In July 2026, I retired from Bechtel after a rewarding career as a leadership development and personal growth coach and mentor, workforce effectiveness operations manager, and workshop facilitator. I moved to Florida to reconnect with my youngest brother and build the next chapter: three tracks of coaching work built around the people and communities I've always been heading toward.
Along the way, I found myself in rooms most people never see. At Covenant House, I sat with young people the system had already written off, listening long after everyone else had given up on them. A former colleague and close friend showed me a different kind of room: the inside of a correctional facility, where he was having the conversations most people are afraid to have. What he taught me never left me, and I'm building a program now to carry that work forward. Somewhere between those two worlds, I was also in boardrooms with C-suite executives who had everything except the one thing that actually moves people: someone willing to tell them the truth.
None of that came easy. I'm no stranger to adversity myself. I learned at a young age just how powerful the mind is, that you can use it to move forward, or let it turn you into a victim. I've always chosen the former, and that choice shapes everything I do with the people I work with.
The thread running through all of it: everyone I've worked with had more in them than they'd been able or allowed to see. My job was always to help them see it.
