A producing and successful industrial broker who coaches performance, not hype.

I built my career in a very competitive market by combining discipline, strategy, and real execution. That’s what I coach.

I’ve spent the last 20+ years in commercial real estate brokerage with a focus on industrial real estate in Calgary. It’s a mid-sized Canadian market with sophisticated competition, including the largest commercial brokerages in North America. You don’t win consistently here without skill, systems, and the ability to perform under pressure.

My advantage has always been the combination of field experience and structured thinking. I earned an MBA with Distinction from Durham University Business School in the UK, and the CCIM designation through advanced training in financial analysis, market analysis, and investment strategy.

I’ve also built and led a high-performing brokerage group that has ranked among REMAX Commercial’s “Top 25” teams worldwide since 2015. I received REMAX Commercial’s Lifetime Achievement award, and in 2025 I was named to CREi’s “Top 150” LinkedIn Influencers in Commercial Real Estate.

Outside transactions, I’ve been trusted to contribute to the industry. I’ve served as an advisor to the Real Estate Council of Alberta, the province’s real estate industry regulator. I’ve also lectured and taught brokerage practices at the Calgary Real Estate Board, and I’ve presented at REMAX’s global conference.

Before brokerage, I ran a marketing consultancy. Earlier still, I served as a Combat Engineer in the Canadian Armed Forces. That experience shaped my coaching style through disciplined planning, clear objectives, honest debriefs, and consistent execution.

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What I coach

I coach producing commercial real estate agents in the areas that actually move a career forward:

  • Decision quality so you think cleaner, choose better, and avoid preventable mistakes
  • Prioritization under pressure so the urgent does not crowd out the important
  • Execution habits so goals turn into actions that get completed week after week
  • Professional standards so you operate at the level you say you want, even when busy
  • Strategic perspective so you have a private place to talk through strategy, business management questions, and tough calls using real experience and training
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My coaching philosophy

Coaching is applied philosophy. It’s the practice of turning intention into action under uncertainty, while keeping character and standards intact.

  • Purpose over motion
    Action without a clear end becomes motion for its own sake. The first task is to name the aim, then judge everything else by whether it serves it.
  • Practical wisdom over cleverness
    Real progress comes from practical wisdom, not from clever tactics. Practical wisdom means choosing well in real conditions, with incomplete information, and owning the consequences.
  • Truth as a discipline
    Most professional stagnation is a failure of honest observation. The work begins by naming what happened without excuse or self-attack, then learning precisely from it.
  • Commitment as identity
    Commitments matter because they shape the person who makes them. Each kept commitment strengthens self-trust. Each broken commitment trains self-betrayal and weakens future resolve.
  • Constraint realism
    Time, attention, and energy are finite. Any plan that assumes infinite capacity is fantasy. Good coaching produces plans that survive real weeks, real deals, and real pressure.
  • Courage in small doses
    In this business, growth often requires discomfort. The goal is not heroism. It’s repeated, manageable acts of courage that build a durable professional temperament.
  • Standards as self-governance
    Standards are not external pressure. They’re the personal laws a professional chooses, then lives by. Raising standards means narrowing what’s tolerated in thinking, behavior, and execution.
  • Feedback that leads to change
    Reflection is pointless unless it alters the next decision. Every review must end in an adjustment that can be tested in the next week.
  • Compounding over intensity
    Careers are built through accumulation. Small, consistent improvements in judgment and follow-through compound into outsized professional growth.
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