Life updates a year later
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As I’ve got more time on my hands these days I returned to thinking about a newsletter to friends and colleagues in my life. Re-reading the last post from over a year ago made me laugh, I wrote:
Last month was hard for me. I meant to build my coaching and organizational development skills. Instead, I dabbled in crypto investments and found myself quite addicted to technology staying up late to watch numbers on a screen go up or down.
While crypto didn’t consume 100% of my time it did consume more than 40 hours a week most weeks in the last year. My “dabbling” started doing so well that building a coaching business or organizational development skills took a back seat. I did have a very powerful start to my Organizaitonal Development part-time graduate program at Pepperdine in the fall, but even that took a hit as I got covid in February, couldn’t attend a key in-person session, and am restarting it this fall per the faculty’s suggestion.
In my defense, my “dabbling” turned into a wildly successful time in which I helped co-found one of the most popular NFT projects of 2021 and did well trading. Now the markets have tanked so I’m refocusing back on what I want to be doing long-term.
And that brings me about full circle back to this substack. I am working on my graduate thesis on how leadership styles of top management groups influence high-stakes decisions in climate change. I’m fleshing out my interests in organizational development and seeking ways to plug into the workforce as a consultant, employee, intern or volunteer to keep building on my experience.
I’m fully committed to trying to find ways to do the things I’m excited about regardless of what it takes. Thankfully, I have some financial buffer since it isn’t easy to get your foot in the door. I’m just going to keep putting myself out there in hopefully more intelligent ways until I’m good enough people are excited about me.
So I’ll be using a little of this life update to pitch you and welcome any feedback on how to ask for help more intelligently:
I’m currently seeking consulting jobs or internships with the opportunity to demonstrate and expand my portfolio of experiences in the services above. Flexible on any range of time from 10-40 hours a week. Ideally I’d have a few 10 hour a week opportunities paid or unpaid to hone in on teams I work well with and areas of organizational development I can have the most impact.
Here’s my quick background summary: I’m an experienced program manager & data scientist consulting on culture, decision-making, and conscious leadership development. I have over five years of experience as a coach and mindfulness trainer.
Here are services I can offer and hope to build expertise in:
- Making the invisible visible, helping leaders see the hidden culture problems that are hindering performance. Coming into an organization, helping listen and reflect on both what is said and what is left unsaid. Sharing recommendations in ways and through building relationships that make it actionable and helping implement those changes.
- Leveraging affective neuroscience and conscious leadership development to create strong feedback systems and improved self-awareness. This can include trainings on emotional regulation, mindfulness, or feedback systems such as radical candor or conscious leadership feedback systems. It can also go beyond trainings to coaching or systems implementation.
- Improving processes and debugging group dynamics to help with senior leadership teams making decisions that involve tensions between personal, organizational, and global goals. Many interventions companies offer here focus on executive coaching. I like to work with the executive but also listen to their leadership team and use appropriate decision-making research to find frameworks, new ways to collaborate, or even new ways to frame the decision based on needs and the best practices in the field.
Thanks for reading my updates & pitch! Outside of work life is pretty good. Family wise Jane & I are contemplating if we stay in the Bay Area or find somewhere more affordable, waiting to see where Kevin Durant ends up, playing music together, and starting to go to local Oakland Roots soccer games which are surprisingly fun. If you have any fun updates please send them my way too.