I’m like Yoda for visionary entrepreneurs. I am a transformational and executive coach, facilitator, writer, speaker, and the creator of Relational Alchemy, Elevate, and The Creation Game.
In my one-on-one coaching, I help visionary entrepreneurs and executives find and courageously pursue their true work in the world in a way that feels authentic and in integrity.
Expertise
My coaching has expanded and explored many different themes and areas over the years, including but not limited to:
Purpose: Finding your truth, overcoming procrastination, connecting with your authentic sense of purpose, developing discipline and willpower, post-Landmark work, integrating your work with spirituality, and doing more with less.
Business: Conscious values-based business, wealth mindset, culture, lean business creation and development, sales and negotiation, non-linear time management
Relating and Community: Relational Alchemy, facilitator training, circling, creating depth and intimacy, group facilitation, coaching training, conscious leadership, designing group experiences, compassion fatigue, supporting and bringing new perspectives to coaches and counselors
Love, Sexuality, and Shame: Healing shame, men’s work, embracing sexuality and sacred sexuality, recovering ‘nice girls’ and ‘nice guys’, and post-David Deida integration work.
Enlightenment: Exploring higher levels of awareness, reorganizing mindsets and identity, for fun and profit.
Upcoming Events
Shadow Play
Mon, March 23 in SFExploring our shadows through connection, embodiment, and playfulness
The Creation Game
Sat, March 28 in SFA day-long intensive for creating what you truly want
Testimonials
The work
we do
together.
Four interwoven areas of exploration — each one a doorway into leading and living with greater depth.
From Empowered to Awakened
The ‘Empowered’ mindset is based on the application of personal will and force. It gets you into action. It builds skill and changes habits. it’s a world of discipline and execution – it gets things done. And it quickly burns out, because it’s all about you and your individual capacity.
The evolution beyond empowerment – Awakening – can often look like disempowerment. Your thinking slows down. You spend more time in contemplation (a.k.a. sharpening the saw). Progress becomes less predictable, less linear… and more profound. Awakening is not about optimizing what you already know, but about making leaps to new ways of seeing – and each leap changes the rules. It’s a shift from incremental momentum to shifting realities.
Scaling through Subtraction
Coaching clears the plate. Coaching creates focus. It has more to do with cultivating the stillness and laser-like focus of a samurai in the middle of battle, than someone planning their retirement.
The secret of facing great challenges, internal and external, is subtraction.
What are all the things you’re thinking about that you don’t need to be thinking about?
What are all of the things you’re doing that you don’t need to be doing?
What are the 5-minute actions you’ve been avoiding that might change your entire life?
What if pausing for a minute could save you a week?
Coaching helps you navigate chaos, uncertainty, complexity, and stress. And it is often by slowing down inside, that you are able to create greater impact, faster.
What got you here won’t get you there.
Articles
Physics vs Engineering
Better thinking unlocks better action — shift your worldview, not just your tactics.
Something Awesome is Trying to Happen
True manifestation is surrendering old stories and following what life already wants to create.
One of the things that really sets Michael apart is his capacity to be completely non-judgemental and unattached to the clients’ story, while holding a caring and compassionate space in which the client can open, shift, heal, unravel, and gain insight. It’s truly amazing and I’ve experienced this many times myself. This is truly developmental coaching!
Another gift Michael brings to his clients is his love of “the space of not knowing”. He rests in this space, even while skillfully asking just the right questions when it’s time. His resting in this space serves as in invitation for the other to template, as well.
His empathy and perspective are complemented by the genuine levity that shows up in his presence, which in my experience, helps me to be more gentle with myself and less attached to whatever shows up.
Lastly, his curiosity is engaging. I often walk away from our visits feeling energized by this curiosity and his fascination with both “what wants to happen” and “what’s possible”.
Elizabeth Kennedy, Conscious Communion