My mission: Meaningful learning.
My compass? Healing.
My medium? Everything from sacred ceremony to spreadsheets.
My gift? Teaching.
Keynotes & Workshops
Interactive keynotes and trainings designed to challenge assumptions, build capacity, and catalyze lasting culture shift.
Facilitator Training
Practice the art of transformative facilitation—grow your skill, embody your values, and lead spaces that matter
Mental Fitness & Leadership Coaching
Build the resilience to stay grounded in every storm.
Equity Audit
Measure what matters. Transform your culture through dignity-driven equity strategy.
Bilingual Leadership
Harnessing the brilliance of bilingual youth.
Healing-Centered Masculinity
Unlearning silence. Growing emotional fluency. Creating spaces for boys and men to feel, lead, and heal.
Keynotes & Workshops
Bring depth and heart to your next event.
Example Topics Offered:
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Because language is never neutral.
Audience: Youth, Educators, School Systems, Youth-Serving Organizations, Nonprofit Staff
Type of Organization: K–12 Schools, After-School Programs, Juvenile Justice Programs, Community Orgs
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This keynote invites students to explore the everyday power of inclusion, courage, and kindness—and how their choices shape the culture of their school.
Audience: Middle and High School Students
Organization Types: K–12 Schools, Youth Conferences, Student Leadership Programs, Equity-Focused School Initiatives
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Practices that humanize, interrupt harm, and make room for collective healing.
Audience: School Leaders, Nonprofit Executives, Youth Practitioners
Type of Organization: School Districts, Foundations, Government Agencies
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How leaders build the culture they long for.
Audience: School Administrators, Team Leads, Organizational Change Agents
Type of Organization: Schools, Districts, Nonprofits, Higher Education, Foundations
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Culture is power. Language is memory. Voice is resistance.
Audience: Bilingual Educators, School Administrators, Cultural Leaders
Type of Organization: Dual-Language Programs, Latinx Serving Orgs, School Systems
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From deficit labels to dignity-based leadership.
Audience: Educators, Case Workers, Youth Program Leaders
Type of Organization: Schools, Probation Departments, Nonprofits, Foundations
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Unlearning dominance. Reclaiming purpose. Remembering who we are.
Audience: Educators, Youth Mentors, Men’s Groups, Organizational Leaders
Type of Organization: Schools, Correctional Facilities, Nonprofits, Conferences
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Explores how educators can hold space for both trauma and triumph, cultivating classrooms that heal and empower.
Audience: Educators, School Leaders, Teaching Artists
Type of Organization: K–12 Schools, Teacher Prep Programs, Universities, Youth Development Orgs
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Educators & Instructional Coaches: For those leading classrooms, circles, and professional learning with presence and care.
Nonprofit & Program Staff: For frontline staff and facilitators designing spaces for healing, growth, and community engagement.
Youth Development Professionals: For mentors, advisors, and after-school leaders fostering connection, belonging, and leadership.
Restorative Justice Practitioners: For facilitators holding circles and conversations around harm, accountability, and healing.
School Counselors & Social Workers: For practitioners guiding difficult dialogues and supporting youth through trauma-informed approaches.
Team & Department Leads: For internal leaders designing meetings and retreats that actually build trust and momentum.
Community Organizers & Cultural Workers: For facilitators moving hearts and minds toward justice through story, art, and collective reflection.
HR & DEI Professionals: For those building inclusive, human-centered cultures through intentional group experiences.
Faith-Based & Spiritual Leaders: For those stewarding sacred space and guiding spiritual inquiry in community.
Peer Support & Mental Health Facilitators: For wellness and support group leaders creating emotionally safe and affirming spaces.
Facilitator Training
Facilitation for Connection, Clarity & Collective Growth
A one- or two-day immersive training (6–12 hours) for those who guide, lead, and hold space.
Designed for team leads, educators, nonprofit staff, and cultural workers, this experience equips participants with the tools to:
Design engaging, purpose-driven experiences
Lead meetings with clarity and presence
Build and sustain relational trust
Navigate complex group dynamics with confidence
Key Distinctions
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This isn’t just a how-to on logistics—it’s grounded in trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and healing-centered approaches. You won’t just learn to run meetings. You’ll learn to hold space for transformation.
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This training merges practical facilitation tools with emotional intelligence, ancestral wisdom, and experiential learning. Lead with discernment. Lead with depth.
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Whether you're hosting restorative circles, staff meetings, or community gatherings, this training meets the moment. Sessions are customizable to your group size and goals.
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Rooted in decades of lived practice, this is not just theory. You’ll experience what it feels like to be led with care and purpose—and leave ready to create that for others.
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Offered as a stand-alone training or a train-the-trainer model. Pair it with coaching to sustain and scale facilitation capacity throughout your organization.
Mental Fitness & Leadership Coaching
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School & District Leaders – For principals, superintendents, and cabinet members leading through complexity.
Nonprofit EDs – For executive directors navigating mission, burnout, and bold vision.
Department Heads & Managers – For mid-level leaders balancing people, projects, and purpose.
Management Teams – For groups seeking alignment, trust, and shared resilience.
Public Sector Leaders – For civic leaders shaping policy and service with clarity and care.
Healthcare & Mental Health Professionals – For those carrying others’ pain and needing space to recalibrate.
Higher Education Leaders – For faculty and admin creating cultures of dignity and learning.
Philanthropy Professionals – For leaders stewarding change through trust-based giving.
Faith & Community Leaders – For those holding sacred space and collective responsibility.
Social Impact Founders & Coaches – For changemakers ready to lead from within.
Program Overview
Positive Intelligence (PQ) is profoundly impacting my life. It was so transformative that I shared it with my wife, my sister (a clinical therapist), my adult sons, and their partners. That’s how much I believe in its power.
I’ve since built Lead Within—a coaching experience designed specifically for system leaders and teams navigating high-stakes decisions, emotional exhaustion, and the pressures of leadership. It’s about building the clarity, resilience, and balance we all need to lead well.
It all starts with a Saboteur Assessment—a powerful first step in understanding what might be holding you back in the areas of wellness, relationships, and performance.
Includes:
1-year access to the PQ Mental Fitness app
Full 7-week Positive Intelligence® program
1:1 or Team Coaching
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A personal reset for leaders navigating high-stakes decisions, emotional exhaustion, or culture change.
Executive Track – $1,595 (10 sessions + app)
10 weekly 1:1 live coaching sessions
Saboteur assessment + personalized growth plan
Resources and weekly practices tailored for your leadership context
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Peer-powered growth for leaders ready to connect, reflect, and lead with resilience.
Leadership Pods – $1,395/person (2 to 4)
10 weekly 90-minute group coaching sessions
Peer-supported discussion and real-time application
Pod-based in-app discussion board
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Support your entire team in building healthy habits for performance, wellbeing, and relationships.
$895 / $795 / $695 per person
(Tiered by team size: 5–12 / 13–22 / 23+)3 live 3-hour professional development sessions:
Foundations of Mental Fitness
Disrupting Saboteurs & Building Team Trust
Integration & Sustaining Culture
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Deeper connection and accountability to sustain culture and performance.
Team Integration Upgrade – $2,495 flat per team
Includes:
8 weekly 1-hour live debrief sessions with your team
Group reflection, application, and integration
Optional coaching check-ins for team leads
Equity Audit
Comprehensive, Transformative Insights for Sustainable Change
Navigating today’s dynamic and interconnected organizational landscapes:
Every great journey requires a reliable navigation system—a way to set course, track progress, and adjust as conditions change. The Dignity Compass™ is that tool for organizations seeking to cultivate dignity-centered leadership, service, and culture. Designed as a strategic rubric, the Dignity Compass™ guides organizations to measure, celebrate, and improve the overall health of their organization, the quality of its service impact, and its support for individual growth. It is both straightforward in structure and profound in impact—so much so that its core concept can be explained by simply drawing a Tic-Tac-Toe grid on a napkin. Like a captain’s compass, this framework provides clarity in decision-making, ensuring organizations stay on course toward meaningful, data-driven change.
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A Comprehensive Framework for Organizational Growth
The Dignity Compass™ helps leaders assess, track, and strengthen dignity-centered leadership, service, and workplace culture.A Practical, Data-Driven Approach
The Dignity Compass™ integrates three dimensions of dignity (Organizational, Relational, and Personal) with three degrees of implementation (Policy, Action, Impact) to create a nine-part structure for sustainable change.Customizable for Any Organization
Designed for schools, healthcare systems, corporations, nonprofits, and public institutions, the framework adapts to diverse industries and leadership structures.Guided by Implementation Science
The Tier 1 Team / Data & Implementation Team ensures continuous progress through six-month cycles of reflection, action, and impact assessment.A Leadership Tool for the Future
The Dignity Compass™ provides leaders with the clarity to navigate challenges, build trust, and cultivate a humanizing organizational culture.
Bilingual Youth Leadership
Leadership rooted in language, culture, and purpose
Offerings:
La CIMA (High School & College-age Leadership Cohorts)
La Chispa (Workshops for educators and programs)
Custom packages for schools, conferences, orgs
Highlight:
Packages (half-day, full-day, 6-week)
Outcomes: identity, advocacy, cultural pride
Spanish-English visuals or downloadable flyer
Healing-Centered Masculinity
Healing-Centered Circles for Boys, Men, and Systems
Offerings:
Young Men’s Circles (schools, orgs, juvenile systems)
Men’s Circles & Retreats
Men’s Healing Network (ongoing space)
Include:
Mission + story
Testimonials from young men and adults
Workshop/program options
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