My Story
Why I do this work
I didn't come to coaching from a straight line. I came to it the way most of my clients come to me — through a season where the life I'd built was good on paper, but something underneath it was asking a deeper question and calling me to be open to what it might reveal.
For more than twenty years, my work has lived at the intersection of two things people don't usually put together: organizational leadership and a life of faith. I've led and built. I've sat with people in pain, in grief, in doubt, in confusion. I earned an MBA because I care about how things actually work, and an MDiv because I care about why they matter. Somewhere along the way I realized those weren't two interests. They were one — a conviction that a meaningful life and purposeful, effective work are not at odds, and that the deepest questions and the most practical ones belong in the same conversation.
I also know the terrain I coach in because I've walked it myself. I've felt the particular restlessness of midlife — the sense of having climbed competently for years only to look up and wonder whether the ladder was leaning where I actually wanted to go. I've known the quiet ache of "is this all there is?" and the harder, more hopeful question hiding underneath it: who am I becoming, and what's mine to do now?
That's why I created Work Wonder. I wanted to walk with people through exactly that passage — not to hand them a five-step plan, but to support them as they cultivate the inner ground from which their own clear answers could come. I've watched what happens when capable, accomplished people finally get a space to slow down, tell the truth about where they are, and listen for what's stirring underneath. It's some of the most meaningful work I know.
My Approach
I practice integral coaching — a developmental approach that works with the whole person, not just the problem in front of you. It treats the issue you're carrying as a doorway into your current way of being, and the coaching journey as a real shift in how you live, not just what you do. That means we don't stop at strategy and goals. We pay attention to your head, your heart, and your body, because a new way of living rarely comes from thinking harder. It comes from seeing yourself more clearly and practicing your way into something new.
In practice, my work holds three intentions — really a promise about what you walk away with:
Progress
Real progress on whatever brought you here — the decision, the transition, the question of what's next.
Self-Correction
The capacity to course-correct on your own, so you're not dependent on a coach to stay on track.
Self-Generation
A growing ability to notice where you want to keep growing, and to keep finding your own way forward — long after our work together ends.
How I See People
If there's one thing I believe about people, it's this: most of us are rarely seen for who we actually are — and being seen, truly, changes things. It changes what we believe about ourselves, God, and others. It changes who we can become.
So much of what I do is simply paying close, generous attention until the truer person comes into view: the quality in you that you can't see on your own — the gift that's always been there, now held up for you to see.
My clients often tell me they ended up saying things they'd never said out loud — not because I pulled it out of them, but because the coaching relationship is a safe, generative space that welcomes all of you. That's the work I love most.
A Little About Me
When I'm not coaching, you'll usually find me cheering on my boys or enjoying the outdoors. I live in Durham, North Carolina, with my family and two dogs, and I do my best thinking on a run or in the middle of a triathlon training block — somewhere between the discipline I love and the suffering I apparently signed up for. I understand the bewilderment that often accompanies midlife, as I continue to design and build my way forward. Mostly, I'm someone who believes the second half of life carries within it better things yet to come — and who has built a practice around helping people discover that for themselves.
