I very much enjoy doing good things with and for people... my clients, my friends and my family. I am a native Californian who fully enjoys my life, professional work, family and friends. My wife Barbara and I are both engaged in community and church volunteer activities. I am a Past President of the Rotary Club of Newport-Balboa and a past Vocational Director for Rotary District 5320.  Barbara and I enjoy living in Orange County, California close to our three married children, our grandchildren and our great grandchildren.

Love of the outdoors and nature has been in my blood since my childhood and I greatly enjoy my frequent visits to my family retreat overlooking June Lake in Northern California. During a long weekend each month of the summer and fall you will find me enjoying family and friends as we cast for trout while wading along my favorite High Sierra streams. On a long weekend each winter month, you will find me and my wife Barbara skiing down snow-laden slopes on June or Mammoth mountain with friends and family.

Sailing with family and friends in the Oasis Sailing Club brings me delight several times a month as I enjoy fun and relaxed cruising up and down the Newport Coast.   

Gaining and maintaining discretionary time to build a balanced and beneficial life became one of my major goals as a driven business owner and educator.  My goal has been achieved for many years and I thoroughly enjoy life, family and friends by maintaining the kind of balance in my life and work that I write about in my book, Intentional Integrity: Aligning Your Life with God's Values. After I married Barbara, I served in the Air Force and later started my dual careers as a young educator and entrepreneur.  Maintaining quality discretionary time on my busy calendar has remained a top priority since I came to terms with urgency and busyness as a destructive distraction from the important things in life. I have found that gaining and maintaining a balanced life with sufficient spiritual, physical, emotional, time and financial reserves requires me to focus on "working to live, not living to work" and I help my clients do this too!.

As much as I love catching fish, my coaching and consulting philosophy is to educate, empower, and encourage my clients to "fish" for themselves. I hold myself accountable for not creating dependence on myself as I help my clients sharpen and master the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for being stellar leaders and managers and preventing costly mistakes and making of more profitable decisions. It is the same teaching philosophy I had when I patiently taught my son Scott and my grandsons Brittan and Cameron to become excellent fishermen and watched them experience their joy of achievement.

After serving in the United States Air Force as Director of the Career Information and Education Center for the headquarters unit of the 33rd Division of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean Conflict and later graduating from college, I pursued dual careers in education and business. I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in Education and later his Master of Arts degree in Administration from California State University, Los Angeles. In 1969 I received my Doctorate degree in education from the University of Southern California, having a major in Curriculum Design and Adult Learning with a minor in Administration. Later in my career I completed the renowned post graduate intern program in Organization Development and Human Resource Consulting with University Associates.

As a 27 year old entrepreneur, I started my first business. The business quickly grew to ten employees on rented property.  My partners and I then purchased a 25 acre site in the Malibu Mountains of California to develop Sycamore Ranch, Inc. In a short time we added an adjacent 25 acres to the business and grew it to 100 employees. I served for sixteen years as founding President and CEO of the resident retreat and education facility. During difficult and discouraging times when destructive floods hit our business, I oversaw the repairing of the property and the quick restoration of services to our customers. 

I have a deep desire to help each of my clients achieve their natural best. I desire that they gain and maintain the critical physical, emotional, time and financial reserves that allow them to run their businesses instead of having their businesses enslave and run them.  I want to help them enjoy more discretionary time to relax and enjoy their families and friends. The most frequent reserve-sapping mistakes I find myself helping my clients avoid are: decisions and actions that deplete their personal reserves and cause burn out; hiring the wrong people; delegating inappropriately; having policies and actions that loose good customers and staff members; and making spending decisions on staff training and other things that waste time and financial resources.

Over the last five decades I have enjoyed and appreciated serving small business owners and leaders and their staff members in manufacturing and high tech companies; accounting, banking and insurance enterprises; medical and health care organizations; service and retail oriented businesses; and educational, nonprofit, and ministry organizations.

I use my Intentional Business Integrity Model to help all clients assess the health and good functioning of the various people-driven functions within their organizations. When working with clients, I work up front and diligently with them to determine how proven principles for living life and doing business apply and are always truly profitable.  I help them be accountable to themselves for applying these principles and being and doing all they are capable of being and doing.

My probing, thought provoking comment to clients after they have shared their concerns and desires with me is, "Life has consistently taught me that if I keep doing what I'm doing I'll get what I've got. If I like what I've got in my marriage, with my family, with my friends and in my business, I try to figure out what I'm doing and keep on doing it. If I don't like what I'm getting, I take responsibility for looking hard at what I need to add, delete or modify to get what I truly desire and then go about doing it. What are the key things happening that you don't like and deeply desire to change?"

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