Value: Curiosity

I prioritize discovering the right question(s) over the right answer(s).

Value: Courage

For me, courage means to act while facing fear and anxiety.

Value: Compassion

While I value and pursue empathy, I lead with Compassion. As I understand it, the difference is that empathy requires a certain level of understanding; what’s more, the pursuit of it can seduce us into believing full understanding is possible. On the other hand, compassion can be given and felt without stipulation or requirement. I give it without qualification.

Principle: Work Slow (To Go Fast)

I do not offer or promise quick and easy fixes. I believe my success in my role as consultant and leadership coach is related to the strength of my bond with my client(s). Developing strong bonds takes time. Change, deep, lasting, change, takes time. So, I work slow.

Principle: Go Toward Tension

When I sense tension, I grow curious, and move toward it rather than away.

Principle: Embrace Not Knowing

I know enough to know I do not know and might not know even if I want to know.

Principle: Learning Is Fun

The best learning in my view, happens when people are having fun, can play around, express themselves. I endeavor to make even the hard learning fun.

Ethic: Service

I elevate service to others above self-interest.

Ethic: Dignity and Worth of the Person

I treat each person, group, and organization in a caring and respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and cultural and ethnic diversity. I promote clients’ socially responsible self-determination and seek to enhance clients’ capacity and opportunity to change and to address their own needs.

Ethic: Importance of Human Relationships

I understand that relationships between and among people are an important vehicle for change. I engage people as partners in the helping process and seek to strengthen relationships among people in a purposeful effort to promote, restore, maintain, and enhance the well-being of individuals, families, social groups, organizations, and communities.

Ethic: Integrity

I take measures to care for themselves professionally and personally and act honestly and responsibly and promote ethical practices on the part of the organizations with which they are affiliated.

Ethic: Competence
I continually strive to increase their professional knowledge and skills and to apply them in practice.

(adapted from the NASW Code of Ethics)