It Begins Within
I've won the life lottery.
I'm the husband to the beautiful and wonderful Negin Yazdani.
I'm also a girl dad, founder, and executive coach.
I love being active and outdoors: beach volleyball, road cycling, tennis, olympic lifting, hot yoga, rucking, and running.
I also love getting deep. I am an avid journaler, introspective-nut, and seeker of wisdom in myself and others.
My craft is leadership coaching. I'm the founder & owner of Rora, a leadership coaching service for top AI Researchers & Engineers.
My work is not about leading others. It's about leading by example and helping others that desire to do the same.
I am grateful to be coached by two amazing humans Marshall Goldsmith and Carole Robin. Before that I am grateful to Amy Jin and Jerome Dixon.
Previously, I was the founder & CEO of Leada, a Y-Combinator backed edtech startup.
The best way to reach me is by email.
Books That Have Influenced Me
Quotes That Have Inspired Me
You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path. And that will make all the difference.
Family dysfunction rolls down from generation to generation, like a fire in the woods, taking down everything in its path until one person in one generation has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to their ancestors and spares the children that follow.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other"
Doesn't make any sense.
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.