Executive Coach · Utah
I spent 30 years inside a Fortune 100 company learning what great leadership actually looks like — and what it costs when it's missing. Now I work with the leaders who are ready to close that gap.
The CEOs who find me have tried the obvious answers but didn't get the obvious results. They were right about the symptoms. They were wrong about the cause.
My Story
“30 years figuring out what that actually meant.”
“I didn’t feel on the inside the way things looked on the outside.”
“I’d been climbing the wrong ladder.”
“Finding a new path of growth changed everything.”
I didn't set out to become an executive coach. I set out to do work that meant something — and to be the kind of leader I could be proud of. I spent the next 30 years figuring out what that actually meant.
My career took me through a Fortune 100 company that moved me constantly across teams where I was never the technical expert. That turned out to be the best training I never knew I was getting. When you can't lead through answers, you learn to lead through questions. When your team knows the work better than you do, you learn that your job isn't to be the smartest person in the room — it's to make the room smarter.
I carried that for 30 years. And then I ran into the same wall I now see my clients hit.
I had done everything right. But I kept asking myself — is this all there is? Something felt incomplete. I didn't feel on the inside the way things looked on the outside. That's when I realized I'd been climbing the wrong ladder. Finding a new path of growth changed everything. And it became the lens I can't unsee in the leaders I work with now.
Why This Work Matters
My convictions about leadership didn't start in a boardroom. They started at home, watching my father.
He worked for a company that didn't value people — and I saw what that did to him. When people aren't treated with dignity at work, that leaves a mark. I saw the powerlessness, the anger, and the fear when they treated people as objects. I saw that close up as a kid and I decided I would never work for a company like that. I would never be that kind of leader and I wouldn't let this be someone else's story if I could help it.
Great leaders build great workplaces. Great workplaces create employees who feel valued. Employees who feel valued go home better — as parents, partners, neighbors.
That's why I do this.
The Pattern I've Seen
These are the thoughts leaders have with themselves — sometimes at midnight, or when they should be watching their kid's dance recital.
Left alone, these thoughts don't stay quiet. They start making decisions for you — impulsive ones, expensive ones. Or you slowly stop making decisions entirely.... and you find yourself one day going through the motions of running a company you used to love.
The leaders who find me have been carrying one of these for a while. They're not stuck because they're not smart enough or good enough. They're stuck because from where they're standing, they can't see the issue clearly yet.
No company grows faster than the leader running it.
The first step is just a conversation.
The Podcast
The same reason I coach leaders is the reason I started a podcast on leadership.
Most leadership content tells the same stories. The unicorns. The household names. Companies and journeys most people can't relate to and can't learn from.
I started Untold because the most valuable lessons I know came from real people — Utah CEOs and entrepreneurs who built something meaningful without making the press releases. Real stories, honestly told, for the next generation of Utah leaders. Season 2 is live.