I am a leadership coach, facilitator, and systemic thinker. Before any title, I am a neurodivergent Black man who has lived through trauma, silence, and the weight of navigating systems that were never built for people like me. My work is shaped as much by lived experience as it is by professional training, and I no longer separate the two.

I grew up carrying the wounds of childhood sexual trauma. For many years, survival meant staying quiet, staying small, and staying out of the way. I know what it feels like to move through the world unseen, misunderstood, or reduced to labels that never captured my full humanity. I also know the power of telling the truth, and how honesty can break open shame and create space for real healing.

For years, I worked as a Marriage and Family Therapist, supporting individuals, couples, and families through trauma, identity challenges, and relational pain. I no longer practice as a licensed clinician due to ethical violations that ended my clinical career. I name that history plainly, take responsibility for it, and remain committed to ongoing recovery, accountability, and personal change. I do not hide from my failures, nor do I define myself solely by them.

Those years of clinical work, alongside my lived experience and mistakes, deeply inform how I coach leaders, train organizations, and think systemically today. My lens is trauma informed, neurodivergent informed, socially conscious, and grounded in an understanding of power, culture, and nervous system dynamics. I am particularly interested in how unintegrated trauma, identity wounds, and systemic pressure can quietly erode judgment, connection, and ethical clarity over time.

My lived experience is inseparable from my professional work. As someone who has navigated racial trauma, neurodivergence, foster care, and the complexity of multiple marginalized identities, I understand what it means to hold contradictions such as strength and vulnerability, belonging and otherness, clarity and confusion. These realities shaped my commitment to helping others build bridges within themselves, within their organizations, and across cultural divides.

This commitment led me to develop the Cultural Effectiveness Training (CET) Model, a framework that blends neurobiology, cultural consciousness, systems thinking, and lived experience. CET supports individuals and organizations in developing awareness and sensitivity, moving beyond performative inclusion toward genuine transformation and ethical coherence.

Today, I coach leaders, teams, and organizations seeking to deepen cultural competence, strengthen communication, and build relationally attuned environments. I do not show up as an expert who has it all figured out. I show up as someone who has done, and continues to do, the work. Someone who believes that healing, growth, and cultural change require honesty, humility, and presence.

If you are a leader, a team, or an organization seeking to align values with practice and cultivate spaces where people feel seen, safe, and empowered, I am here. I do not offer judgment. I offer clarity, systemic insight, and deep respect for the complexity of transformation.

I once believed I had to hide the parts of myself that hurt. What I have learned is that those very parts shaped who I am. This is the self I bring into this work, because no one should have to navigate transformation alone.