hi, i'm aaron
As a certified Integral Coach™, I bring 30 years of leading teams in corporate environments like Amazon, Google, Disney, and NBCUniversal, and designing experiences that bring people together in museums, theaters, and classrooms. I have two grown daughters whom I am enormously proud of. I love the outdoors, live music, all the animals, playing guitar, and making things. Community service, creative expression, kindness, and compassion are important to me. And I am a bookworm. You can see what I am reading here.
Five years ago, after decades of doing everything I could to manage serious health challenges, my body stopped me. Lifelong migraines and cancer brought me to a threshold I didn't choose. That's when everything I had been working through came into sharp focus.
the way forward
What followed was the hardest, but most clarifying, stretch of my life. I navigated it using a wide range of practices, from western medicine and therapy, across somatic healing and meditation, to psychedelic-assisted therapy. That journey felt like coming back to life. It gave me the gift of clarity about what actually creates change in a person and eventually led me to train as a coach.
As I found my new footing, I retrained. I went back to graduate school, then earned certification in Integral Coaching® through Integral Coaching Canada, one of the most rigorous developmental training programs available, and trained in the ethics of power through the Right Use of Power Institute™. My learning is ongoing. The same capacities this work asks of my clients are asked of me as the coach.
I know the experience of surviving before I could start to actually live. Childhood adversity, the grief of divorce, and the harder lessons of professional and personal mistakes all shaped how I understand what people carry and how to move forward.
I live with nervous system patterns shaped by complex trauma, including symptoms that overlap with ADHD. I am thriving with it, rather than despite it.
All of that experience is in the framework.