I work with a small number of CEOs and founders on the dynamics that quietly determine whether a company thrives or stalls.

The decisions that define what comes next. The patterns no one else in the room has the standing to name.

I am the founding partner of The Buckeye Group, a strategic advisory firm. Before building this practice, I held executive roles at the William Morris Agency, Bank of America, and Tennis Channel, personally generating tens of millions of dollars in new revenue across strategic partnerships, new product creation, licensing, and sponsorship for clients including The Miss America Organization and DirecTV.

I hold executive leadership and business coaching certifications with professional education from Babson College and Harvard Medical School. I earned my business degree from The Ohio State University.

What distinguishes this work is what it is trained on: the human system underneath the business problem. In a leadership team, I can identify what is unspoken, what is misaligned, and who is not operating from their actual capacity. Those are rarely the presenting issues. They are almost always the real ones.

What a client wants to hear and what they need to know are rarely the same thing.

I am co-founder and former board chair of Melissa's House, a mental health residence—work that informs how I understand human systems at the level where organizations actually break down. I am based in Los Angeles and at work on my first book, on the unnamed dynamics that determine whether leadership compounds or erodes.

If the description of this work resonates, that is likely not a coincidence.