About
Activate Potential provides pragmatic, best practices-based coaching to executives seeking to improve their leadership and the results they generate in complex goal/project and interpersonal environments.
Simply put, we are passionate and determined to help clients become highly effective leaders who:
- Hold the dual focus of achieving crucial near-term results and set solid foundations for long-term learning and engagement,
- Behave in ways that engender trust and loyalty and leave you feeling energized,
- Enhance knowledge, skill, and commitment in yourself and your direct reports,
- Demonstrate an intensity for customer delight while honoring core values—yours and those of the organization and,
- Use the most effective leader behaviors as determined by key stakeholders.
Sample Client List (including those served on behalf of partners, Ken Blanchard Companies and FerrazziGreenlight)
Thomson FindLaw ICON Clinical Research
City of Orange (CA) Capital Group
Vistamar School Trigger Direct
The Ken Blanchard Companies California Student Aid Commission
First Data Corporation Konstrukt Development
LPL Financial Services Western Digital
CalPacific Mortgage/Savala Group McKesson Corporation
Etisalat (Dubai, UAE) ASTD (Amer. Society for Traning and Developement)
Aramark Corporation
Newell Rubbermaid
- Marketing Director, EMC Corporation (UK and Ireland)
- Product Marketing Manager, EMC Corporation (USA)
- Marketing Director, Richard Branson’s Virgin Group (UK)
- Turnaround architect/owner of a San Diego small business
- Contributor, Biz San Diego Magazine
- Coach University
- Villanova University, School of Business, Marketing (honors)
- University of San Diego, M.S., Executive Leadership (highest honors)
- Ph.D. - University of San Diego. PhD in Leadership Studies, dissertation focus: Motivation. (expected completion: 2012)
- Master Practitioner - Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
- Ken Blanchard Co. - Situational Leadership II (SLII) (leadership style assessment, interpretation, and team training)
- Ken Blanchard Co. - Situational Self-Leadership (SSL) - (self-leadership skills assessment, interpretation, and team training)
- Ken Blanchard Co. - DISCovering Self and Others - (DISC assessment, interpretation, and team training)
- Ken Blanchard Co. - Creating a Values Based Community (values assessment, interpretation, and team training)
- Ken Blanchard Co. - Leading in the Self, One-to-One, Team, Organizational Contexts (custom program for international client)
- Lominger Voices 360 Feedback Assessment (assessment, interpretation, & coaching)
Situational Leadership II, SLII, Situational Self Leadership, SSL, DISCovering Self and Others, Creating a Values-Based Community are trademarks of the Ken Blanchard Companies. Names used with permission. Lominger and Voices are trademark of Lominger.All programs delivered under license and certification.
Because knowing the man is as important as knowing the businessman, here is some personal information:
I am an avid reader. I favor adventure and human potential stories. I also enjoy real-world, empirical research on expertise and performance, leadership, human motivation and psychology. I’m currently working through two major compilations of research, The Cambridge Handbook on Expertise and Expert Performance and the Handbook of Self-Determination Research. Both are immeasurably exciting, and provide an empirically-proven, real-world basis for my work.
Why focus on research? Because the issues related to workplace performance and fulfillment have not changed much in the past few generations. We think that because the pace of change has accelerated in the past 50 years that the nature of how people relate with one another and what people need to bring out their 
best skills and attitudes has also changed. They have not. Nor have the core skills needed to effectively respond to change.
For example, research on what employees want in and from their jobs are the same for the Gen X and Y generations (and whatever the next one will be called) as for their parents. Surprised? All generations want:
- Work Quality—job autonomy, challenges to learn on the job, and the meaning that people find in their work.
- A Supportive Workplace—family-friendly, supportive supervisors, relationships with coworkers.
And, the competencies that individual contributors, managers and executive leaders need in order to create workplaces that meet the needs of employees so they can perform at the highest levels possible also have not changed. (Lominger, 2001)
So, my work is based on well-researched, real-world, time-proven knowledge applied in an optimistic, results-oriented, and client-focused manner.
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