I am an Entrepreneur, Consultant, Investor, Coach & most recently, a Cancer Survivor

 

 

I start businesses, develop, and sell them, and I enjoy helping others do the same. Typically I build businesses using public relations and marketing techniques that allow me to be in a cash positive position early in the business cycle.    

 

I am a coach to entrepreneurial individuals seeking to improve specific areas of their lives or to create new, more satisfying lifestyles.  My consulting practice is usually project-based with measurable objectives and a time line, such as helping a client start or sell a business or to grow the customer base through an event or media blitz. It is important to me that my clients succeed in accomplishing their goals as a result of my advice.

 

I have started, developed, and sold businesses ranging from a high tech computer security service to a flight school to coin operated laundromats.

 

I like creating planned chaos and seeing where it leads while keeping a long term strategy. Implementing my creativity and being completely responsible for the results is rewarding.  

 

I have provided consulting services to individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies including PriceWaterhouseCoopers, National Semiconductor, Sprint, Bay Networks, the County of Sonoma (CA), churches, museums and non profits.

 

With the proceeds of my businesses and consulting practice, I have invested in commercial and residential real estate in Northern California.

 

Through all my twists and turns, writing has been my best business tool and a creative outlet for me personally.