What I came to do. What I'm doing.

Actions and Words and Being
This effort to integrate work, life, and fun started as a teenager. The most important word to me at that time was "We". A sense of belonging and the possibilities for greater integration of life, nature, and business was clear to me, but the connections seemed elusive. Yet, with many idealistic tendencies of a young age, they remained and I never gave them up, nor the active pursuit of them. Conscious capitalism is just building those ideas into the next step of reality, the way life really does work if we want it to.

I ran a counseling department with two direct reports at a Hospice in New York State. It was an excellent opportunity to transcend the barriers of various beliefs with one another as the common questions about the "purpose of life" and how best to live it were addressed by the many hundreds of leaders and individuals along with their families with whom I worked. Additionally, my role as founder and co-chair of the bio-ethics committee helped hone my facilitation and mediation skills that I later formalized in practice.

Through all this interaction, it became clear just how major a role business played in the well being of the lives of the families and individuals who were seeking ways to experience the fullness of life. When the organization began to go through growing pains to the point of even shrinking and not growing, the disconnect between the prevailing business and social paradigm became more and more important. The relationships between the leadership and the caring line workers became so strained it threatened the organization. However, the narrow definition of spirituality in this paradigm as "other worldly" left out the true definition of a focus on purpose, meaning, and hope. Conscious Capitalists know better. Deeper purpose fuels the engine, meaning provides direction, and the hope that humans have the potential to solve all the problems that face them is the engine.

My Activities since 1999

• Graduated with an MBA from Canisius College, Buffalo, NY.
  
  
• Underwrote Commercial Loans for Businesses affected by 911.
  
  
• Completed an internship with the Institute for Conflict Resolution at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
  
  
• Mediated and arbitrated business and family cases with the Better Business Bureaus' of Buffalo and NYC.
  
  
• Taught Human Resource Management and Organizational Development at the State University of New York.
  
  
• Graduated with a Masters in Industrial Labor Relations from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
  
  
• Developed, and managed a $20,000,000 commercial loan portfolio at Hudson Valley Bank, Westchester, NY.
  
  
• Earned a Master of Human and Organizational Development Degree from Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA.
  
  
• Presented the "Executive Education for Everyone" (EEE) series at the Public Library in Yonkers, NY.
  
  
• Obtained a license to administer the Devine Inventory Assessment, a leader in the Organizational Development field.
  
  
• Inducted into Alpha Sigma Nu, National Graduate Honor Society.
  
  
• Became Director of Unity:Jerusalem, an international peace project. (Exhibits include New York City, Stuttgart, Germany, and the United Nations.)
  
  
• Studied and worked in the capital markets with UBS Financial Services and many fine independent investment groups.
  
  
• Lead a seminar using the EEE for the Southern Labor Relations Human Resource Group of Georgia Southern University.
  
  
• Founded and lead the "NYC Ayn Rand Meetup" written up in the April 2009 issue of the "New Yorker" magazine, "The Talk of The Town" section.
  
  
• Started "The Global Center for Conscious Capitalists". This is the capstone effort.