Dispatches on performance, leadership, resilience, and reinvention, written from the intersection of the boardroom and the mountain.
Every elite athlete has a comeback story. The injury, the plateau, the years where the fire went quiet. What separates the ones who come back stronger isn't talent. It's the playbook. After years of building companies and navigating crises, I'm applying the same system to my own reinvention.
Read ArticleThe CEOs who outperform their peers aren't just sharper strategists. They're moving their bodies at 5 AM while their competition sleeps.
ReadAfter two decades placing senior leaders at global firms, one pattern holds: the executives who thrive under pressure were almost always competitive athletes.
ReadStanding at the lip of Tuckerman's headwall, you don't think about the board meeting. You think about the line. That kind of clarity is what executives need more of.
ReadI co-won The Death Race. Not because I was the fittest. Because I refused to quit when everything in my body said stop. That's the only skill that matters.
ReadThis is the post I wasn't sure I'd write. The money, the anxiety, the years where survival mode replaced performance mode. And how I'm clawing back.
ReadThe research on Zone 2 training has upended endurance sports. The same principle, build the base and protect the engine, applies directly to executive performance.
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