Mutual commitment
The work begins with a mutual commitment statement signed by both coach and client. It names the responsibility each person brings to the engagement.
Approach & credentials
The work is personal. The standard is practical.
Executive coaching for leaders who want a clearer view of the decisions, relationships, and operating patterns shaping their business.
Methodology
A disciplined way to work through what matters.
We begin with the leader, then widen the lens to the team and the operating machinery around them. The work is direct, confidential, and built around the decisions that matter now.
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Start with the leader
Create a confidential space to name the decisions, tensions, and patterns that are hardest to address inside the business.
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Strengthen the team
Clarify expectations, decision rights, and the conversations that help capable people take real ownership.
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Build the machinery
Turn insight into operating rhythms, accountability, and a business that can serve the life you want to lead.
Principles
The commitments behind the work.
Candor without theater
You will get direct questions, honest observations, and a conversation that does not require you to perform certainty.
A clear value standard
At year-end, you should be able to articulate what the engagement was worth. If you cannot, the accountability rests with me.
The credentials, in full
Twenty years in the chair, not the classroom.
The short version lives on Perspective. This is what is actually behind it, for anyone who wants to check.
The operating chair
I ran two multi-hundred-million-dollar agricultural cooperatives before I ever called myself a coach. Ten years at Landmark Services Cooperative in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin — the last six-plus as CEO, before that as COO — leading over 320 full-time staff across 24 locations in 16 communities, closing two mergers and five acquisitions, and building the capital management structure that put more than $90 million to work over five years.
Then three years as CEO of Premier Cooperative in Champaign, Illinois, running a $350 million grain and energy operation with more than 50 million bushels of storage capacity and a staff that swelled to 150 during harvest. In between, an interim stint steering a 60-million-gallon ethanol and biodiesel plant through a leadership gap, reporting straight to a seven-member board.
The lending chair
Before any of that, I spent seven years on the lending side — as a senior loan officer and then a sales director, managing commercial and producer loan portfolios north of $75 million and sitting across the table from CEOs and boards making the same gray-area calls I coach through now.
I have seen a balance sheet from both chairs: the one asking for the loan and the one approving it.
The discipline behind the work
None of that happened in a vacuum. An MBA in Finance from the University of St. Thomas. Four years as a Military Intelligence analyst and NCO in the U.S. Army, including a Meritorious Service Medal and five Army Achievement Medals — which is where I first learned that discipline and structure are what carry people through when motivation runs out.
And a couple decades of board seats that never really stopped: audit committees, planning commissions, advisory boards, and a cooperative capital committee I chaired for seven years. Governance is not theory to me. It is Tuesday.
A confidential conversation can be the next right step.
If you are carrying a decision that deserves more than another meeting, let’s talk.