Stop Fighting Yourself. Start Leading Clearly.
Former VP of Engineering turned leadership expert. I help leaders resolve the internal distortions that sabotage decision-making, feedback, and conflict, so leadership feels less forced and more natural.
Why Leadership Training Doesn’t Stick
Almost every leader has experienced that frustrating gap between "knowing what to do" and "actually being able to do it" in the heat of the moment.
Most leadership programs teach skills. And yet, those skills look very different in real moments: conflict, feedback, decisions.
Not because leaders didn’t learn them. But because internal beliefs distort how those skills show up under pressure.
When Distortion Is Removed, Leadership Flows
Most leaders already have the skills. What’s missing is removing the internal distortions that hijack those skills under pressure.
Leadership Undistorted helps leaders:
Identify the internal beliefs that get activated in high-stakes moments
Understand how those beliefs quietly reshape behavior
Resolve the distortion, so existing skills can show up clearly, consistently, and with less effort
When distortion is removed, leadership doesn’t feel forced. It feels steadier. Cleaner. More natural.
Ways to Work With Me
Keynotes
High-impact talks that introduce Leadership Undistorted to help leaders see how internal beliefs distort skills under pressure, and what changes when clarity returns.
Corporate Workshops
Facilitated sessions that help leadership teams identify and work through the specific distortions showing up in conflict, feedback, and decision-making.
Courses
For leaders who want to deepen this work over time and build sustained leadership clarity alongside practical skills.
Why This Work Exists
I spent over 15 years in high-pressure corporate environments, including serving as a VP of Engineering. I learned the leadership skills, applied the frameworks, and climbed the ladder, yet leadership consistently felt harder than it needed to be.
What changed everything wasn’t more training. It was understanding how internal beliefs shape behavior under pressure. Over time, my work shifted from teaching leaders what to do, to helping them understand why certain leadership moments felt difficult and resolving the internal distortions that were getting in the way.
Leadership Development That Actually Compounds
Leadership development has a measurable return on investment across productivity, retention, and performance. Yet much of that ROI assumes leadership skills actually show up when pressure is high.
Leadership Undistorted addresses what most programs miss, the internal distortions that prevent training from translating into real behavior. When those distortions are resolved, leadership clarity improves, execution accelerates, and the impact compounds over time.
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lost annually to poor leadership productivity
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lost due to ineffective leadership
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for every $1 invested in leadership development