Ray’s coaching and consulting work is informed by 25 years as an entrepreneur and senior executive. He is trusted advisor to senior organization leaders providing informed, confidential and candid feedback, guidance and strategies for their professional leadership development. In his coaching practice he has worked with more than 150 senior leaders of companies in fintech, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, professional services, energy, specialty foods, manufacturing, and retail industries.
Ray served as adjunct professor at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business and the College of Engineering’s Graduate Engineering Management Program. He taught Business Plan Preparation, a challenging experiential remote and in-class graduate and undergraduate level course designed to instill business concepts and skills by creating viable business plans with teams of engineering, business, and non-business students.
Ray served on the Advisory Board of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship and the Advisory Board of the Boulder Innovation Center.
My advice to students...
Leadership begins with you. It begins with who you are as a person, what you have learned from lived experiences, and how you inspire others to do the best work of their lives. Whether you are an extrovert or an introvert. Whether you are an empathic or an analytic. Regardless of how you score on any assessment tool...it all begins with who you are, what you know, how you engage with others. There is no single "best" leadership model...there are myriad possibilities. The most respected leaders bring a beginner's mindset. They seek to understand. "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few"...Shunryū Suzuki