Thirty-two years leading organizations. One practice.

The rabbinate — learning presence

Ordained as a rabbi and earned an MBA from the same institution, in the same years. One integrated vocation.

He learned that presence — genuine, full-contact presence — is not a soft skill. It's the precondition of every other form of leadership.

The rabbinate never ended. It moved into new work.

Twenty-three years at American Jewish University — learning what relationships make possible

More than $170 million raised there, and more than $200 million across his career. Because of a sustained conviction that transformational giving happens when people feel genuinely known and cared for.

JEWISHcolorado — learning what crisis requires

As President & CEO, he guided a community through the Tree of Life massacre, COVID, and the Marshall Fires. He held grief and governance simultaneously. He restructured the organization while completing a capital campaign.

He learned what it costs to lead in crisis. And what becomes possible for leaders who can.

The research — learning what the field couldn’t tell him alone

Thirty-two years of field leadership taught him what worked. It couldn’t tell him why, or whether it would hold in a room he hadn’t stood in himself. That question became The Structural Health Study™, whose Summer 2026 Nonprofit edition publishes shortly, and the findings became Amplify Impact, the forthcoming book he co-authored with Joel Swanson and Curt Swindoll. The Painpointing Assessment — Vision, Execution, Diagnostic capacity — comes directly out of that research and now anchors the diagnostic work at the center of this practice.

He learned to hold both: the practitioner’s instinct and the scholar’s discipline to test it.

The Strear Group — where it all converges

Founded in 2023. Strategic planning, EOS Implementation, and leadership coaching for nonprofits and for companies whose leaders answer to partners, a board, or private equity owners.

Everything he has done brings him to this work.