Cut through the noise of leadership development.
Rise to your potential and flourish.
Bridge the gap between knowing and doing.
As an executive, you face the daily challenges of overwhelming demands, constant firefighting, and complex decision-making with incomplete information.
You’re good at what you do. But you know you could be better.
You know you could have greater impact on your team, your organization, the world.
You've read the books, attended the seminars, and know the strategies to be a more effective leader – but knowing doesn't always translate to doing.
I help high-performing leaders slow down to turn knowledge into action.
Slowing down accelerates:
Illuminating blind spots and dissolving the inner barriers to reaching life-changing goals
Increasing health, vitality, and productivity through time-tested behaviors and exercises
Gaining the self-awareness and emotional intelligence to relate to others with skill, confidence, and compassion
Cultivating presence, clarity, and resilience to lead powerfully in the face of uncertainty
Aligning actions with deepest values and vision
Jacob was instrumental in helping me navigate the delicate balance between my professional ambitions and personal time. His insights were crucial in helping me establish a sustainable routine that enhanced my productivity without compromising my well-being.
- Shaun Klopfenstein, Former CTO, Marketo
Whether you're grappling with a specific leadership challenge or seeking to up-level your presence and effectiveness overall, I meet you where you are and serve as a guide for the inner work needed to create outer results.
Throughout the coaching journey, you'll gain profound insights, transformative shifts, and practical tools you can apply right away, such as:
Mindful communication techniques to navigate difficult conversations with courage and skill
Decision-making frameworks that integrate intuition and analysis for wise action under pressure
Embodiment practices to manage stress, regulate emotions and lead with balance and resilience
Visioning and goal-setting processes to clarify your North Star and stay on track amidst competing demands
Some of the ways I serve clients
I help visionary leaders set and achieve life-enhancing, business-accelerating, world-improving goals.
I offer consistent, clear-minded, thought-partnership, free of organizational agendas and politics.
I specialize in helping clients identify and change limiting habits, beliefs, and behaviors, as these elements are crucial in determining a leader's success or failure.
When you’re ready to up-level your leadership and impact, contact me, and let’s have a chat.
I love helping leaders succeed.
Thought-partnership without organizational politics
Founders and C-Suite Executives know it’s lonely at the top. Many miss being able to bounce ideas around with out it being heard as a directive. Friends and peers are invaluable, but often don’t have the time to be a consistent sounding board.
Professional distance allows outside support to challenge assumptions and potential blindspots.
As a consistent thought-partner, I provide feedback, fresh perspectives, and a more objective viewpoint from outside the organization,
But most importantly, I help clients access their own intelligence and wisdom when navigating the constant array of business challenges.
For nearly 15 years, I've been hiring Jacob to help me and my teams navigate creative, strategic, and operational challenges. Jacob is the type of thought partner and facilitator that supports everyone at the table to excel. He's been an asset to every team and project I've brought him on, from my own production company to Whole Foods Market to Adobe.
- Sirr Less, PM, Autodesk
True high-performance is sustainable, rewarding, and creates lasting change.
Clear goals and accountability accelerate growth
A journey begins with a destination.
Company growth and personal growth begin with goal clarity.
Working together, I help clients set clear life-, business-, and world-changing goals. Then I hold you accountable to your vision, decision, and commitments.
If you're falling short or lacking motivation, we collaboratively determine what rewards or accountability measures will effectively help you stick to the plan of action.
If you suspect that you or your team is not operating at full potential—whether it’s due to lack of trust, capability gaps, or ineffective communication—Jacob can breakthrough the fog and create forward-moving momentum with ease.
- Sharon Chang, Founder, Guild of Future Architects
Transformation ripples beyond you.
It inspires others and creates a chain reaction.
Habits, beliefs, and behaviors that propel you towards success
Our thoughts and actions shape our successes, failures, and how we respond to life’s joys and challenges.
Two questions every leader must ask:
In the face of overwhelming success and inevitable setbacks, how do I maintain the inner and outer poise needed to lead effectively?
Regarding my leadership, what’s working, what’s not, and how do I change?
Knowing which habits, beliefs, and behaviors support our pursuits and which inhibit, which to eliminate and which to cultivate is the key to achieving our goals.
Everyone has embers of excellence. We find yours and fan them. Then throw gasoline on the fire.
Through a series of guided practices and facilitated sessions, Jacob helped our team move through difficult conversations that we weren't making space for. Our team left the workshops with new language and tools to support us in connecting and collaborating with a dispersed team over Zoom.
-Jenny Chang, Head of Design, Amplitude
Tailored to your specific needs and desires
Each engagement is custom designed to meet the needs of my clients.
For some, that means meeting weekly for 2 hours; for others, it means a quick monthly check-in.
The process begins with a robust intake of the client’s history, goals, and inner and outer tendencies, along with how those around them experience them. Grounded in a thorough assessment, we prioritize the habits, beliefs, and behaviors we will work on eliminating, cultivating, or refining.
We then begin an unforgettable transformation process that leads to your inner and outer actualization and fulfillment, ensuring you leave this world better than you found it.
Tools of transformation
To support your inner and outer transformation, I draw from 30 years of studying and practicing mindset and behavior change. My approach is grounded in a variety of sources from ancient contemplative traditions to modern psychology, cognitive neuroscience and emerging technologies.
Practices can include gentle interventions such as visualization, writing, and concentration to more disruptive interventions using emerging technologies and therapies.
There are endless tools, techniques, and practices. We find the ones that resonate and work for you. And then make sure you do them.
Together, our primary tool is engaged conversation and the revealing and activating power of effective inquiry.
Sincere curiosity about how to achieve your goals lights the way. Where attention goes, transformation follows.
Change is hard to achieve alone.
I will fiercely support and defend your highest aspirations.
