It started with a vibraphone.

After the degree came five years on the road as a professional touring jazz musician — clubs, stages, vans, the whole apprenticeship. Then I spent twenty years founding and leading companies — from a kitchen counter to teams across the country and beyond, through best-places-to-work lists, to two acquisitions. I mentored founders, served boards, taught leadership.

Those years were a gift. They’re where I learned how culture actually forms, how people actually change, and how to guide both — not from a book, but from payroll, from hard conversations, from rooms where the stakes were real. Everything I do now stands on that foundation.

And alongside it, the music never stopped. I played six nights a week in a band. I studied singing bowls with a teacher from a multi-generational lineage in Nepal, sacred percussion — taiko — in Japan, and sat in ceremonies in Mexico. The dream was always the same: study the music of the world, then bring it into a container for healing and growth. Slowly I understood that the two threads of my life — building experiences and making music — were one thread.

That’s when sound stopped being performance for me and became technology — the oldest one we have for changing human state. A tone can settle a room full of strangers. A rhythm can move what talk can’t reach. This technology is alive, and learning to wield it with precision and reverence is the work of my life now.

Today I live in Telluride, Colorado, and I build states of being: immersive sound ceremonies played from the center of the room, retreats that create the conditions for real change, and one-on-one work with leaders standing where I once stood — successful, and quietly asking what now?

Even my instruments tell the story. I’m a multi-instrumentalist — keys, guitars, voice, every kind of percussion, and the sacred instruments of ceremony: singing bowls, gongs, bells, chimes. Around them sits a performance rig of custom-programmed hardware and software I’ve designed over years, built to shape sound to the state a room needs in real time.