I love the startup stage, creative partnership building, personal development, innovation, marketing and business development.
 
I have used and received almost every kind of financing; debt, equity, government grants, foundation grants, public markets, crowdfunding and my favorite, bootstrapping. I'm very passionate about designing new forms of financing to support businesses building a better world.
 
I also have well-practiced and effective program development skills from having launched dozens of programs which focus on youth, technology, social and women's entrepreneurship.
 
I'm a student of how to create high performance teams. To me, a focus on culture and values is critical to drive excellence in personal and business potential.
 
I have been a passionate and committed mentor to over 1000 businesses in my career and am currently working with hundreds of entrepreneurs working on the World’s To Do List.

Specialties: business start-up, “remover of obstacles” aka creative bootstrapping, business model hacking, actualizing concepts, synthesizing, innovation, vision, culture-building, network building, behavior change, strategy, inspiration and storytelling as a pathway to culture change.