UPBRINGING
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Although I currently live in San Diego, I was born and raised in Illinois. I had the privilege of having great parents, awesome schools and an abundant upbringing with lots of time in nature. My childhood was filled with art, sports and scouts. As youth gave way to young adulthood, I began chasing the American Dream. I devoted myself achievement in sports, making the Dean's List and dating. In college, I joined a fraternity, held leadership positions, and began my career in investment banking, startups and venture capital. But none of it was fulfilling. It wasn't me. Despite these traditional markers of success, I felt empty inside, awash in confusion and anger. It felt like I was living someone else's life. To escape this inauthenticity, I spent my teens and twenties partying with an uncommon fervor, winding up in jail in 6 different states before my 28th birthday. |
PURPOSE DISCOVERY
In my late 20's, I discovered there was something important calling me underneath this work hard, party harder life - my purpose. I could no longer distract myself from this call. After graduating with my MBA at Columbia Business School in 2004, I headed to San Francisco to work with social enterprises and dive head first into personal and spiritual development work. I needed to find the truth in my heart, what it was that truly moved me. I plowed through every book, course and teacher I could get my hands on. I went to therapy, India, Burning Man and dozens of workshops and retreats. I did this for seven years and although I had numerous essential breakthroughs, none of it gave me the bone-rattling clarity to give something my all, nor the grit to be unstoppable. In 2011, I began my purpose discovery work and all that changed. My search was over.
I worked with Jonathan Gustin, the Founder of the Purpose Guides Institute. Through our work together, I was finally able to touch something real, the electric current of my purpose! I found the ground beneath my feet and began growing my roots. As a result of this work, I started EVR1 with my business partner, Dane Zehrung. We produced and sold purpose-driven products on 5 continents and our work was covered by major news outlets such USA Today, Techcrunch and on Fox News. In 2012, at the request of my friends and family, I also started guiding them on their purpose discovery journey.
After 18 months of rapid growth at EVR1, Dane and I shut it down. Through our continued purpose work, we both discovered that we fulfilled on our purposes much more effectively as Guides rather than selling our products. Plus we love it - it's seriously fulfilling work. Shortly thereafter, I completed my training with the Purpose Guides Institute. Since 2012, I have had the privilege to guide thousands of people from over 50 countries on their journey, including entrepreneurs, educators, CEOs, doctors, Catholic Priests, Dalai Lama Fellows and world-class artists and athletes.
As all purposes are evolutionary, mine continues to evolve, moving me into deeper realms of impact and service. The soul questions alive for me now are:
How do I move my deep heartbreak for the American people into service?
How do I empower America's working and middle class to embrace the purpose journey?
How do I create a political economy and culture that pulls for, cares about and rewards purpose awakening?
I worked with Jonathan Gustin, the Founder of the Purpose Guides Institute. Through our work together, I was finally able to touch something real, the electric current of my purpose! I found the ground beneath my feet and began growing my roots. As a result of this work, I started EVR1 with my business partner, Dane Zehrung. We produced and sold purpose-driven products on 5 continents and our work was covered by major news outlets such USA Today, Techcrunch and on Fox News. In 2012, at the request of my friends and family, I also started guiding them on their purpose discovery journey.
After 18 months of rapid growth at EVR1, Dane and I shut it down. Through our continued purpose work, we both discovered that we fulfilled on our purposes much more effectively as Guides rather than selling our products. Plus we love it - it's seriously fulfilling work. Shortly thereafter, I completed my training with the Purpose Guides Institute. Since 2012, I have had the privilege to guide thousands of people from over 50 countries on their journey, including entrepreneurs, educators, CEOs, doctors, Catholic Priests, Dalai Lama Fellows and world-class artists and athletes.
As all purposes are evolutionary, mine continues to evolve, moving me into deeper realms of impact and service. The soul questions alive for me now are:
How do I move my deep heartbreak for the American people into service?
How do I empower America's working and middle class to embrace the purpose journey?
How do I create a political economy and culture that pulls for, cares about and rewards purpose awakening?
MY PURPOSE
Like all purposes, mine continually evolves through doing the same exercises and practices I lead my clients through. As of 2018, the ten aspects of my purpose are:
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MY WORKThough my books, keynotes and programs, I help professionals and executive teams from successful companies like Tesla, The Smithsonian, Apple, the EPA and Google, awaken their purpose-driven leadership and create profitable high-impact businesses.
I serve organizations like Johnson & Johnson, Illumina, the United States Marine Corps, Morgan Stanley, prAna, Dr. Hops Kombucha and AnnMarie Skincare, and lead purpose work at events and conferences like the Purpose Summit, Wonder Women in Tech, Global Purpose Day, and the Greenerminds Summit. I also teach live courses and have lectured at Stanford University, the University of California, Columbia Business School, Northern Arizona University, The Institute of Noetic Sciences and the California College of the Arts. Prior to finding my purpose - creating a world of 7.5 billion purpose-driven leaders -, I built teams and led projects for a number of successful social enterprises, start-ups and Fortune 500 Companies, such as Merrill Lynch & Co., Autodesk, Bebo/Aol., Crackle/Sony, Intertainer and SunTechnics. Lastly, I'm passionate about the broader purpose movement and serve on the Council of the Global Purpose Leaders and collaborate with the Global Purpose Movement. 
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MY LIFEMy wife, Stephanie Staidle, and I live in San Diego, CA. Although for us the lines between work, life and purpose are very blurry, we don't always work. We like adventures, travel, yoga, hiking, costume parties and simple things like making dinner with friends and family, and attending local festivals. Below are some pics of us goofing around:
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TRAINING +EDUCATION
During my 8-month training and certification program at the Purpose Guides Institute, I had the opportunity to learn from leading guides and evolutionary thinkers such as Jonathan Gustin ( Founder, Purpose Guides Institute), Bill Plotkin (Founder, Animas Valley Institute), Tim Kelley (Founder, True Purpose Institute), Joanna Macy, Terry Patten, Steve McIntosh and Sera Beak.
In addition, I've completed over 2,000 hours of leadership, communications, mindfulness, diversity, inclusion and facilitation training with The ManKind Project, Landmark Worldwide, the Leadershape Institute, Camp Wellstone, Vipassana Meditation, Hofstede 5-D Multicultural Training and Non-Violent Communications.
I earned my B.S. in Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and my MBA in Leadership at Columbia Business School in New York City.
In addition, I've completed over 2,000 hours of leadership, communications, mindfulness, diversity, inclusion and facilitation training with The ManKind Project, Landmark Worldwide, the Leadershape Institute, Camp Wellstone, Vipassana Meditation, Hofstede 5-D Multicultural Training and Non-Violent Communications.
I earned my B.S. in Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and my MBA in Leadership at Columbia Business School in New York City.
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