About David
Why I do this work.
I've worked with people in positions of responsibility for over 25 years. Trainer. Coach. Facilitator.
In international leadership consultancies, I developed programmes — and as Client Director and Member of the Executive Board, I personally acquired and managed million-dollar projects. Led international teams. Built strategic client relationships.
Accompanied over 20,000 leaders and entrepreneurs in 25 countries — from team leads to C-suite.
I know leadership from operational reality. And I know its price.
In my early 40s, I stood on the edge of inner collapse. Not because I was incapable. But because I had been functioning for too long.
In my early 50s, I made a conscious decision: no longer to stabilise systems that aren't my own. But to work with people who are building their own systems. Entrepreneurs.
The common thread
My common thread has always been the same: clarifying success-critical relationships — vertical and horizontal.
Vertical: The relationship to vision, energy, intuition.
Horizontal: The relationship to team, stakeholders, investors.
Brilliant strategies fail when these relationships don't carry them. I've seen this for two decades. Today, I translate this experience for entrepreneurs who want to lead more consciously.
Vision Quest — where it began
My work began long before my professional life.
At 22, I undertook a traditional vision quest on Vision Mountain in Washington State — four days and nights alone in nature, fasting, asking:
Who am I? What is my contribution?
The answer that emerged has guided me ever since: the healing of relationships — between people, within teams, and between leaders and the deeper intelligence that wants to work through their efforts.
This purpose became the common thread of everything I've done since.
