Thirty years across every room. 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 changed rooms.

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

More than $200 million raised. 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 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 Nonprofit Leadership Diagnostic Study (NLDS), and the findings became Amplifying Impact, the forthcoming book he co-authored with Joel Swanson and Curt Swindoll. The VED Framework — 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. Leadership coaching and EOS Implementation for purpose-driven CEOs and founders who are trying to build organizations that match their values.

Everything he has done brings him to this work.