About
I’ve spent more than 50 years trying to figure out what life is about and how it works.
I’ve been a Marine pilot, a CEO, a professor, a husband, and the father of three daughters.
We’ve been taught that these are different worlds — each with its own rules, its own version of success, and an endless list of supposed-to-do’s to chase.
I noticed that people became different people depending on which world they were in. Love at home. Transactions at work. They felt fragmented, miserable, and burned out twisting themselves to meet competing demands.
I wanted to flip that. Instead of becoming different people for different worlds, what if we focused on what it means to be human — and applied that to every area of life? A simple way of living where happiness at home and success at work flow from the same source.
What I found is simpler than I expected. Happiness and success both come from good relationships. With yourself. With family and friends. At work and in your community. The way you build them is by seeking wisdom, practicing love, and getting results — until they become habits, part of who you are.
That’s not a theory. It’s an 80-year Harvard study confirmed by everything I’ve seen in the cockpit, the boardroom, the classroom, and at my own kitchen table.
Background
40+ years practicing and teaching leadership across the military, business, education, non-profits, law enforcement.
Marine Corps — AV-8B Harrier pilot.
CEO — 20 years leading and building organizations.
Duke University — Taught leadership, ethics, and military history.
California POST Command College — Nearly 30 years teaching leadership to the leaders of California law enforcement.
Ethics Officer — Los Angeles Unified School District.
Education — M.A., Duke University. B.A., University of Notre Dame. (Program of Liberal Studies, intellectual history)
Author — On Leadership: What’s Broken in Our Society and How We Fix It
Everything I’ve learned comes down to one framework.
Seek Wisdom. Practice Love. Get Results.