Coaching
Personal, interpersonal, and spiritual work for leaders and founders in technology, finance, and venture.
01 / Audience
You run a company, fund startups, or you're building the next thing. You also have a family, a nervous system, and a life that doesn't get put on hold when work intensifies. Some of you have done therapy. Some have sat retreats and have a real practice running underneath the work. The pieces are good but don't quite add up. What you have is a collection of techniques rather than a coherent approach to your own interior.
This work is best suited for people who are learning to stay with contradiction without collapsing it into a story, strategy, or fixed self. You work at your edge without bypassing discomfort, developing emotional and energetic fluency in tandem. You align your practice with your deepest priorities — whether that's healing, stabilization, or realization — and prioritize felt experience over theoretical understanding.
You don't need more functioning. You already function. What's available now is investigating the unconscious patterns that organize how you act, decide, and react.
02 / Method
Three domains, worked in parallel.
Personal work begins by examining the vulnerabilities triggered by recurring patterns of experience. These patterns organize and reinforce a self-sense and keep us entranced by reactive loops. The challenge is to remain present and embodied with normative human disturbance without constructing a narrative, interpreting experience prematurely, or fueling unnecessary drama. We learn to sit with intensity and allow it to move through us, waiting until the reactivity passes before choosing how to respond.
Interpersonal work calls for aligning our ways of relating — both method and expression — with our present-moment developmental reality. Strategies for connection, protection, and expression formed early in life. They once served us. They often become outdated and maladaptive. The work is to notice when those strategies are running, see what they were originally for, and develop the capacity to choose differently in the moment.
Spiritual work is the ongoing practice of returning to the immediate stream of experience, over and over, to discover that each moment is fresh, complete, and wonderfully ordinary. We are not seeking mystical experiences. We are stripping away interpretation, conceptual overlay, and fixation in order to meet experience as it is.
Methods include breathwork and nervous system regulation, developmental and relational investigation, and subtle body practices that work with energy at the sensation level. I don't run a fixed protocol. The work in any given session depends on what is arising, and the methods serve that, not the reverse.
03 / Background
I spent two decades in technology and international development before this. LinkedIn, Microsoft, Pivotal, the United Nations, and a few startups. Some of it was meaningful. Some was the standard professional grind. All of it was happening while I was also practicing meditation seriously.
I started sitting in my twenties and have been at it for around thirty years, primarily in the Tibetan Buddhist lineages, with direct training connections to senior teachers in those traditions. For most of my career the practice ran underneath the work as a private matter, occasionally surfacing in how I made decisions or sat in meetings, mostly invisible to colleagues.
The integration question is what eventually became the work. How does a serious practice actually meet the conditions of running a company, raising capital, holding a senior role, building something while also having a family and a body and a life? Most of what's on offer treats the practice as a productivity hack or treats worldly life as an obstacle to the practice. Neither is right. They're the same investigation conducted on different surfaces.
I founded The Field in 2023 to teach the practice itself: Tummo, Dzogchen, the methods I've been working with for decades. Coaching is the other side — working with people whose lives are inside the worldly conditions, integrating the practice with the work, the relationships, and the structural transitions they're navigating.
The psychological framework comes from my mentor Bruce Tift, a psychotherapist with forty years of clinical practice. His book Already Free is the legible artifact. I'm not a licensed therapist and this isn't therapy. It isn't unsupervised either.
04 / Format
Sessions don't run on a fixed agenda. You bring what's live, I do my best to be a location of awareness and reflect back what seems most accurate, and we work with whatever is in the room. Some sessions are quiet investigation. Some are practice instruction. Some are working through a specific decision or relationship.
Sessions are 75 minutes on Zoom. Monthly subscription, six-month initial commitment, then month-to-month.
Between sessions: email, voice notes, occasional texts for things that can't wait. I respond within 24 hours on weekdays. Not on-demand.
Cancellation, late arrival, and no-show policies live in the client agreement.
05 / Terms
Two engagements. Both run on a six-month minimum, then continue month-to-month.
Foundation
$1,500/ month
A monthly anchor point. For practitioners with an established sit who want sustained instruction without weekly cadence.
What's included
Depth
$3,500/ month
For practitioners navigating a meaningful transition, a structural shift in identity, or the kind of ground-loss the practice tends to surface.
What's included
Additional sessions available on request.
06 / Contact
Write to me with a paragraph about your practice and what you're looking for. If it feels like a fit, we'll set up a call.