MEET YOUR COACH
Founder & Health and Wellness Coach
I believe meaningful change begins with understanding what matters to you. My role as a coach is not to tell you where your journey should lead, but to create the space, support, and partnership that can help you discover what comes next.
MY PATH TO COACHING
For more than three decades, my career was built around technology, business transformation, and leadership. I had the opportunity to lead large organizations, navigate significant change, solve complex problems, and develop people at many different stages of their careers.
Over time, I realized that the part of leadership I valued most wasn’t the technology or the business outcomes. It was helping people grow - creating the conditions where someone could recognize their strengths, see possibilities they hadn’t seen before, and accomplish more than they believed they could.
My own experiences with health, change, resilience, and personal transformation eventually brought that interest into sharper focus. I began studying lifestyle medicine and health and well-being coaching, ultimately earning a master’s degree in Lifestyle Health Sciences and Coaching and becoming a Certified Health & Well-being Coach.
Thrive grew from the intersection of those experiences: a belief in human potential, an understanding that meaningful change is deeply personal, and a desire to help people discover what matters most and navigate their own path forward.
MY APPROACH
I approach coaching with curiosity rather than assumptions. You bring the expertise about your life. I bring a supportive process designed to help you reflect, explore possibilities, recognize strengths, and decide what feels right for you.
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Listen first
I want to understand your experience before exploring where you might want to go.
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Explore what matters
We make space for the priorities, values, strengths, questions, and possibilities that matter most to you.
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Turn insight into action
When you’re ready, we translate what you’re discovering into practical steps that fit your circumstances and your life.
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Learn and adapt
Change rarely follows a perfectly straight line. We reflect on what happens, recognize progress, learn from challenges, and adjust as you go.
My role is to support the process. You remain the author of the journey.
EXPERIENCE & PERSPECTIVE
The experiences we bring into a coaching conversation influence how we listen, what we notice, and the questions we ask. My perspective has been shaped by decades of leadership, teaching, mentoring, transformation, and my own experiences with change.
More than 30 years of professional and executive leadership experience across complex organizations and periods of significant transformation.
Experience developing, mentoring, and supporting more than 100 leaders throughout my career.
Experience as an educator and a longstanding interest in helping people learn, grow, and recognize what they are capable of.
Graduate education in lifestyle health sciences and coaching, professional coach training, and personal experience with health and lifestyle change.
Founder of Thrive Health & Wellness Coaching, created around a simple belief: meaningful change should begin with the person, not a prescribed formula.
CREDENTIALS & EDUCATION
MASTER OF LIFESTYLE HEALTH SCIENCES AND COACHING
University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
2026 Leading the Way Award
Advisory Board Member, Department of Personalized Health and Well-Being, UNT Health
Tom serves on the department’s advisory board, supporting the continued development of evidence-based, industry-relevant academic programs, workforce alignment, community engagement, and collaboration among the university, community, and industry partners. The department includes the M.S. in Clinical Nutrition and M.S. in Lifestyle Health Sciences and Coaching programs.
CERTIFIED HEALTH & WELL-BEING COACH
Wellcoaches
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS
State University of New York at Buffalo State
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Mental Health First Aid
QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper
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ARTICLES & WRITING
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CONVERSATIONS & MEDIA
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PRESENTATIONS & RESOURCES
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RECOGNITION & HIGHLIGHTS
2026 LEADING THE WAY AWARD
Department of Personalized Health & Well-Being
University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
100+ LEADERS DEVELOPED
Leadership development, mentoring, and growth have been consistent threads throughout Tom’s professional career.
30+ YEARS OF LEADERSHIP
Experience leading people and organizations through growth, transformation, and change.
BEYOND COACHING
I believe well-being is something we continue to explore throughout our own lives, not simply something we help others pursue. My own journey has shaped how I think about change, resilience, growth, and what it means to thrive.
Outside of coaching, I value opportunities to teach, mentor, contribute to my community, continue learning, and spend time with the people who matter most to me.
Like the people I coach, I’m still learning, growing, and navigating my own path forward.
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