Experience

America's Promise Alliance

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Chair

  • 2019 - Present

• Founding Board Member

  • 1997 - Present

• SVP & Acting CEO

  • 1997 - 2004

  Lead architect of Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future in 1997 that founded America’s Promise Alliance and was chaired by Colin Powell. Presidents Clinton, GHW Bush, Carter, Ford, and Nancy Reagan for Ronald Reagan convened the gathering and signed its Summit Declaration, later signed by Presidents Bush and Obama in office.



Personal Pathways, LLC

• United States

• CEO & Founder

  • 2008 - Present

  EffectiveTeams™, an enterprise technology product, enables employees to be larger agents of their own success delivering results organizations demand today. (www.EffectiveTeams.com) EffectiveTeams™, an enterprise technology product, enables employees to be larger agents of their own success delivering results organizations demand today. (www.EffectiveTeams.com)



Indiana University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Visiting Scholar - Center for Philanthropy

  • 1993 - 1996

  Recruited and led a research team discovering the “common journey” (i.e., traits, events, benefits and behaviors) of 240 highly entrepreneurial Points of Light, and documented in a report entitled “A Life of Meaning and Adventure." Built an operating model that triggered and increased social entrepreneurship among local residents of a low-income San Jose, California community. Recruited and led a research team discovering the “common journey” (i.e., traits, events, benefits and behaviors) of 240 highly entrepreneurial Points of Light, and documented in a report entitled “A Life of Meaning and Adventure." Built an operating model that triggered and increased social entrepreneurship among local residents of a low-income San Jose, California community.



The White House

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant to the President & Director, Office of National Service

  • Jan 1989 - Jan 1993

  Assisted President George H.W. Bush in making voluntary action, social entrepreneurship, and “Points of Light” hallmarks of his presidency, e.g., advocating “Any definition of a successful life must include serving others”; passage of the National and Community Service Act of 1990; creating the Points of Light Foundation; and establishing the first daily Presidential recognition program from the White House in American history, honoring 1,020 individuals between 1989-1993. Assisted President George H.W. Bush in making voluntary action, social entrepreneurship, and “Points of Light” hallmarks of his presidency, e.g., advocating “Any definition of a successful life must include serving others”; passage of the National and Community Service Act of 1990; creating the Points of Light Foundation; and establishing the first daily Presidential recognition program from the White House in American history, honoring 1,020 individuals between 1989-1993.



General Atlantic Energy

• Board Member & SVP

  • Jun 1982 - Jan 1989

  Private oil and gas exploration and production company, majority owned by General Atlantic. Created the industry’s first institutional investment vehicle for high risk exploratory drilling that provided investors downside protection through direct ownership in stable producing properties in the same fund. Private oil and gas exploration and production company, majority owned by General Atlantic. Created the industry’s first institutional investment vehicle for high risk exploratory drilling that provided investors downside protection through direct ownership in stable producing properties in the same fund.



McKinsey & Company

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • 1978 - 1982

  Summer Associate 1977 (London) Summer Associate 1977 (London)



Hudson Institute

• Think Tanks
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Associate

  • Feb 1974 - Sep 1974

  Assistant to Herman Kahn, Founder, prior to graduate school. Assistant to Herman Kahn, Founder, prior to graduate school.

• Staff Assistant

  • Jun 1972 - Feb 1974

  Also: Nixon’s Re-election Campaign (Summer 1971) White House Intern (Summers 1969 & 1970) Nixon’s Presidential Campaign (Summer 1968) Also: Nixon’s Re-election Campaign (Summer 1971) White House Intern (Summers 1969 & 1970) Nixon’s Presidential Campaign (Summer 1968)