Throughout my 25-year marketing career, my passion has been mentoring, managing, coaching and teaching marketing professionals. I started Make the Leap! Coaching to follow my own passions. Now I specialize in coaching successful marketing professionals to meet the challenges they face in their work and their careers. As a result, they reach new heights in their businesses, their lives and their careers. The people I get to coach are fun, creative and intellectually engaging. I am always learning new things from my clients. Making major leaps can be challenging, but ultimately rewarding. I am honored to be a part of your journey.
Professional Experience
- Executive Coach, Make The Leap! Coaching (2008-Present)
- Executive Vice President of Marketing, Admissions & Corporate Sales, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management (2001-Present)
- Adjunct Marketing Professor, Lake Forest Graduate School of Management (1997-Present)
- Adjunct Faculty Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management (1999-2003)
- Principal at the new product development consulting firm Kuczmarski & Associates
- Director at the marketing research firm Information Resources, Inc.
- Brand management positions at the Quaker Oats Company and Miller Brewing Company
Education
- Coach U Graduate
- MBA in Marketing, Strategy and Organizational Behavior, Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management
- B.S. in Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Other Professional Activities
- Volunteer Mentor to High Potential Corporate Women for Menttium Corporation (2008 Pepsi, 2009 Hewitt, 2010 Grainger, 2011 Allstate)
Personal
I live with my wife Barb and our two sons, Ryan 14 and Kyle 11, in Lake Forest, Illinois. In my spare time, I am an avid practitioner of taekwondo. I am a third degree black belt and enjoy full contact Olympic Style Sparring, taking the gold medal for my age group at the AAU National Competition in 2008. One of the ways enjoy giving back is teaching with my son Ryan a taekwondo class to underprivileged Jr. High kids at a local Boys and Girls Club.
