Who AM I?

I am a personal, professional, and leadership coach. I am an educator. I am a father. I am a philosopher. I am an activist.   

Originally from San Francisco, my circuitous path to coaching can be traced back to the work I’ve done and continue to do as an educator. I began my professional career as a middle school science teacher at Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, one of the highest performing urban charter schools in the state of Massachusetts. I then moved to Brooklyn, New York to found and run Excellence Boys Charter School of Bedford Stuyvesant, the first single-sex public charter school in the country serving predominantly Black males, a school which went on to become one of the highest performing public schools in NYC. I then moved on to help found Zearn, a non-profit digital learning organization currently serving over 4,000,000 students across the country, where I served as an Instructional Designer and on-camera teacher. After that I worked as the Senior Director of Inspire at Relay Graduate School of Education, an independent, nonprofit graduate school of education that focuses on training and supporting great teachers and leaders working in our nation’s high-needs public schools. I currently help run nXu, a non-profit organization whose mission is to catalyze and equip youth and adults to explore, articulate, and pursue their purpose. 

Through these rewarding professional experiences, and throughout my personal life, I have been committed to supporting individuals in their efforts to thrive and fully flourish as human beings. My approach to coaching, an extension of my personal mission, focuses on helping develop expanded self-awareness and an increased capacity to live, work, and lead in greater presence and greater alignment to one’s sense of purpose. 

When I’m not coaching or helping people find their purpose, I’m engaged with a number of amazing organizations. I currently sit on the Advisory Board for the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy located in South Africa, the Leadership Council of the Robin Hood Foundation based in New York City, the National Board of Summer Search, a leadership development program focused on low income youth, the Board of Uncommon Schools in New York City, the Board of The German School of Brooklyn, and the National Board of Breakthrough Collaborative an educational program for traditionally underrepresented students on their path to college and the largest pre-professional teacher training program in the country.

I’m a graduate of Oberlin College where I received a dual degree in Biology and Philosophy, and I received my Master's Degree in Educational Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University.

I received my coaching training through Presence Based Coaching.