We’re more like verbs, than we are nouns. ~

With 14 year’s experience in running small contruction/remodeling companies, and over 12 as a coach and coach trainer, having worked for one of the oldest coaching companies in the business for 5 of those - the common factors in my work are serving my client’s goals, growth, and personal evolution with a craftman’s approach to unique and customized solutions - built on a foundation of earned trust.

From there my style of coaching is simple (mostly) in that we have candid conversations around what is not working, contributing factors, uncover clearly what it is you want as a result of our work together, and create custom practices that pave the way forward.

This allows me to support you to not only become a better problem solver, but to increase your ability to navigate greater complexity in your business, relationships, and life. As the saying goes, how you do anything is how you do everything.

If you’re new to it, coaching not only requires finding a deeply personal aim for what you want, it demands your personally sourced conviction to face what’s difficult and uncomfortable to move beyond it. I help to make the journey enjoyable in part because I focus on supporting you to uncover and tap into your unique individual innate strengths, and to take a small win approach to building new skills. This leads to a greater ability to navigate complexity in your life and business. When you yourself have a simplified mindset and practices that keep you centered, it eventually becomes second nature to stay curious, creative, and playful in relationship to ‘hard’ things.

I believe each of us has a personal story that lays the foundation for our rightful work in the world. I pulled myself out of some rough conditions as a teen with very little support in my environment through a burning curiosity, natural self-reflectivity, and deep desire for continual learning and self-educating. Over time I figured out that limitations are by and large, self-imposed.

I’ve found that we all have a powerful ability to adapt to our conditioning and circumstances. While crucial and necessary while we’re growing, these compensations often hold back our unique gifts and genius - for good reason - until we’re willing and ready to let go of what no longer serves, and can joyfully begin to take greater responsibility for their outcomes and experience of life.

I continually study the patterns of limitations people adopt relative to their conditioning and experiences. Whether these patterns keep them from achieving what they want or drive an addiction to ‘over-achieving’ we uncover the strategies that keep them from being fulfilled. Part of my coaching ‘medicine’ is in assisting people to find the truth for themselves, develop necessary skills in service of their goals, and to forge a real relationship with what truly fulfills them - not least of which includes the way they run their business and live their lives.

With every coaching relationship what drives me forward is being an usher of the eventual joy that comes from deepening self-responsibility in the lives and businesses of individual people.

Under the hood, I’m in part driven to uncover each individual’s relationship with their inner stories, use of language, and their combined effect on awareness, thinking, emotional quality, values, behaviors and actions. Perhaps the greatest influences on a human being is their view and concept of themselves, and the emotional echos these narratives amplify. When we gain greater mastery of our mind, emotions and bodily health, momentum increases along with the experience of presence in our lives.

A universal outcome of my coaching is an increasing of harmony between your intuition and ability to think critically. This is part of each person’s innate genius, and comes as a natural result of increasing your self-awareness, effective daily habits, self-reflection, playful curiosity, and the practice of greater self-care.

Many owners and people in general avoid changing old ways of thinking and new habits because they think they ‘are who they are’. This is a core limiting belief that once debunked and redefined allows a person to direct their businesses and lives in major ways.

By developing a personal discipline to manage your energy, hone your focus and reclaim the sacredness of your attention in action - change takes care of itself.

The journey I guide others on, is the same one I am walking.

Entrepreneurial and Training Background

My first business was at age 19, cleverly called Edible Landscaping serving communities outside of Philadelphia. Let’s just say this is where I first learned to ‘fail forward’.
From there I moved into the skilled trades, high end residential painting, and then finish carpentry and general contracting. I moved to the West Coast in 1999 and worked as a carpenter for 2 years until I formed a Residential High End Remodeling Company and ran that along with 2 partners until 2005.

In late 2005 through some harsh lessons that later yielded valuable wisdom in what it takes to run a business, I chose to once again work independently as a solo contractor running smaller projects, including a move to Southern Oregon in 2009.

It was in 2011 that I was scouted by e-myth worldwide and trained as a holistic small business coach in their international coaching network. During that time I coached over 50 business owners, was mentored by a range of legacy coaches, eventually mentored new coaches, and ended up leading new coach trainings. I left e-myth in early 2016 to forge a bespoke/customized coaching approach for leaders and individuals.

In 2016, I began by studying with the late, Judith Glaser, in her Conversational Intelligence® for coaches processes. This helped to deepen my learning around how the science of the brain and neurology gives context for change in our language, and its impact on conversations as one of the most important areas of development which to this day often goes unaddressed. From 2017 until late 2019 I delved deeply into extensive training in Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). These approaches opened up a large range of my abilities in helping people to access innate resources that they previously didn’t know were there.

All of my study and accumulation of skills continually builds on itself. Like any solid coach, I receive coaching and mentoring as the need arises - and it arises! I apply tools from many sources and bodies of work including: Clean Language, Narrative Medicine, Metaphors of Movement, Contemplative and Inquiry Practices, Breathwork, Ontological Coaching Approaches, Applied Philosophy, Polyvagal Theory and more.

My coaching orients from clearly defined outcomes within clearly defined time frames. If you are seeking greater clarity as is often the case, the above still applies.
That means no long term, ill-defined engagements that lack direction.

You’re the leader in your business and life. Your applied experience and scientific testing is the best teacher. In my eyes, you have everything you need inside yourself to succeed - I design a process with you and we adjust as needed based on your defined outcomes, measuring results as we go.

I’m here to learn how you think, help you shift your mindset. and then through focused action and behavior get real results. You will receive a personalized strategy, system of accountability with the right tools to achieve results as swiftly as possible.

Coaching business owners over the years has taught me that personal development = professional growth. It’s often the compartmentalization of these that cause added dysfunction to an entrepreneur’s challenges. Being whole is a better place to live, learn and lead from.

I live in Eastern Tennessee with my wise, beautiful, nurturing wife and our wily daughter.

I look forward to meeting you and offering the support to get through the obstacles that have stifled you, to access greater choice and wholeness. Most of all to create with intention the life you are driven to live well.

Professional Background

• Former ABNLP Certified Master Coach & Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programing, (NLP)

• Conversational Intelligence© C-IQ Enhanced Skills Coach.

• 5 Years as a Certified EMyth Business Coach/Coach Trainer/Presenter

• Principle: Nestbuild -Construction and Remodeling Service.

• Co-Founder: Derezsynski-Duval and Associates. High End Residential Construction

• Co-Founder: Edible Landscaping

Non-Profit 

• Former Volunteer/Former Board Member - Alliance of Generations - Selective prevention and youth community based mentoring in Southern Oregon.

• Former Volunteer - Inside Circle Foundation -Cultivating Emotional Literacy and Behavioral Change Training in California Prisons.