Nick is a certified executive coach, team coach, and management consultant. He brings over 20 years of experience in strategy, operations, and leadership development in start-up environments and industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare, and Retail. Nick has continually demonstrated throughout his career that outcomes are radically influenced by focusing on people first, leading to substantially improved results.

Having lived and experienced the competing demands leaders face, he leads with practicality first. You can expect a common-sense approach with frameworks that can be applied ”in the moment,” without sacrificing effectiveness. Clients have specifically reported their appreciation for his simple insights, candid counsel, and ability to understand company culture and complex work environments.

His expertise includes strategic planning and deployment, leadership development, accelerating high-performing team transformation, and developing sustainable operating models.

Nick received his MBA from Babson College near Boston, MA, and graduated from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, focusing on Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Nick shares a passion for wine with his wife, so much so that they aspire to grow grapes on their farm in the Willamette Valley, helping winemakers looking to get their start.

Notable Client Achievements

• Provided work/life balance coaching to the Chief Legal Counsel of a Healthcare Insurer struggling with marital issues.

• During a six-month engagement, coached a Senior Director of Operations on managing their emotions more positively, resulting in a promotion to Vice President, leading a team of 75 individuals.

• Coached a Chief Operating Officer in the Financial Services industry struggling with low team engagement scores. We worked on softer skills to show a more human side of his personality and drove the strategy deep into the organization so employees knew how their work made a difference. Engagement scores increased from 52% to 78%

• Provided coaching support to an individual junior in her career looking to make a career transition. Using the Hogan Assessment, we determined work environments that she valued and motivated her. We also looked at her natural strengths and how they were transferable to a new industry and how she could story tell that to recruiters.

• Coached a CEO leading a small start-up on communicating more succinctly with his board of directors based on feedback he received during past presentations.