"I started ListenForward to help CEOs, executive leaders and teams strengthen their performance and make positive impact with and for the people they lead, the organizations they represent, and the customers and communities they serve."
Executive leaders and teams who "ListenForward" are values and context driven.
They create clarity, build cohesion, and cultivate systems of "co-ownership".
They balance continuous improvement with divergent thinking.
They are adaptive, decisive, and committed to a better future.
As a multi-certified coach and trusted advisor I help top leaders and teams make the hardest transition in business: from being the people who do everything to being leaders who enable everything. My context: four decades leading across radically different cultures and stages, building, scaling, and changing organizations across financial services, media, academia, tech, and sports. I enable the uncomfortable conversations leaders avoid. I see the patterns and signal they can't see or hear themselves, and the team dynamics that quietly stunt their growth. Ultimately, I am passionate about helping my clients reach their individual and collective potential.
Through my practice, I also serve as Operating Partner and Head, Leadership Center of Excellence with Edison Partners, a premier private equity firm targeting growth-stage financial technology, healthcare IT, and enterprise software companies. I coach and advise portfolio CEOs, executives and teams, and support chief people officers. I serve as a board member with Fingercheck, an all-in-one workforce management platform for small and medium-sized businesses with "deskless" workforces. I am a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches Agency.
I draw inspiration and gain wider context from a love of history, understanding world events, photographing people and places, modern art, my always growing and eclectic music collection, urban architecture and design, the innovative local business owner, and the personal stories of people I meet.
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