Life at the helm is hard. No two ways about it. My decades in clinical practice gave me a front row seat to the heavy mantle that male business owners carry—so many of them family men and pillars of their community. What struck me in my relationships with so many remarkable men in that space was how so many of them, despite being strongly resourced in the common domains of ‘business coaching’, report feeling lonely and isolated in the deeper concerns they hold about their lives. Their relationship to their own internal world, their spiritual journey, and their social context, remain profound burdens for them.
These men were otherwise competently guided in their aspirations for their businesses and no measure of success in those domains seemed to meet these other needs. They had expert coaching for hiring and retaining talent for their organizations, for generating and maintaining access to capital, for keeping healthy cashflow, for navigating taxation and regulatory burdens, for navigating our uncertain economic outlook, for avoiding personal financial risk, and for garnering business longevity into strategic succession strategies.
None of these resources seemed to quell the host of concerns that these wonderful men otherwise maintained in silence; the ones that haunted them in their hours outside of the office; the ones that pummeled them with fear or shame. Their loneliness and tremendous experience of being overwhelmed consisted in something else. They were under resourced in the territory of the spiritual life—the life of vocation, or calling—and the communal forms in which it exists.
Men like this—good men, who possess remarkable leadership capacity, who care deeply about their family, community and employee base, who wish to leave a rich legacy to the ones that they love—are still in search of guidance in the territories of the masculine heart. Men like this care about their character and are, there, left alone to cobble together whichever bits of wisdom they may find from 20-minute sermons, podcast clips, or motivational personalities in the social media space. They are therefore left in want of something deeper, more reliable, and consistently accessible.
It is into these spaces—those of masculine character and the great wisdom tradition that has historically guided men there—that I invite you. If what you have read above matches your needs or interests, it would be my honour to journey with you into the places that matter to us all. Into the deep concerns that we hold there in secret. Through bi-weekly engagements, first around the table in a beautiful setting, and then into time around the fire, it is my honour to offer this Executive Cohort experience to men who still wish to answer the call upon their life—who wish to further discern their vocation.
Those who have gone there with us report that it has been lifechanging for them, that it meets a need that undergirds everything they are trying to accomplish besides. They experience it as an ingredient they had been missing—an equipping into a more integrated wholeness. It would be my honour to meet you in this space. I’m blessed that you came by to look further into the matter. If you or someone you know could benefit from becoming a part of such a community, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
I’m rooting for you, Gentlemen, whomever you are, and I look forward to the prospect of meeting you,