Forged by fire.
Refined through performance.

In June 1981, a fire tore through our family home. I was two years old.

I survived. Over forty percent of my body didn't.

For the next four decades I carried a story about that day — what caused it, what it meant, who I was because of it. I was so certain of that story I would have bet my life on it.

I was wrong. Every detail of it.

"The story we carry about our worst moments is rarely the whole truth. And the gap between the story we believe and the truth we haven't faced — that is exactly where performance breaks down."

I didn't learn this in a classroom. I learned it in a burns unit in Calgary, in a mask that made strangers stare, on a snowboard moving faster than I should have been allowed to, and on the sideline of three Olympic cycles watching athletes I coached stand on podiums I once dreamed of myself.

Snowboarding found me the way most important things do — sideways and by accident. My parents let me do it thinking it would slow me down. It didn't. It gave me a world.

At the 2010 Vancouver Olympics I ran the halfpipe as a forerunner. My run that day would have placed me in contention for the finals. I never competed at an Olympics. But I spent the next twelve years helping others get there — coaching across three Olympic cycles, working with medal-winning athletes and coaches who are legends in the sport.

In my twenties I began working with young burn survivors. That work changed everything. For the first time I wasn't just surviving what had happened to me — I was using it. The fire stopped being something that defined my limits and became the thing that defined my purpose.

Now I live in Amsterdam with my family. No mountains. And for the first time in my life, that's exactly where I want to be.

I work with leaders, teams, and high-performers who are navigating pressure, transition, or the gap between where they are and what they know they're capable of. I bring everything I've lived into that room — not as inspiration, but as a practical framework for what it actually takes to change.

If that sounds like what you need — let's talk.