The short version
My passion is optimizing life through conditioning leadership. This is impossible without sharing skills, values, and experiences. The PREVAIL.blog is a medium to continue this connection.
During the last 20 years, I’ve worn the hats of a senior consultant for multiple Fortune 125 companies, founded two successful organizations, served as an Army Infantry officer — best job I ever had, and supported global military training and operations as an advisor during peacetime and wartime.
I lead through selfless service and massive action.
If I can help you, I will.
Dale
“Thinking is nothing without doing.”
The long version
Consultant
My consulting career began days after graduating college when I was recruited by the largest company in the world at the time. Due only to luck, I had the privilege to be mentored by a 40+ year industry icon of financial planning and business strategy. This mentoring experience primed my entire career.
Over the next ten years, I would consult for several top-5 national financial institutions, leading teams of experts specializing in financial planning and business strategy. Together we navigated the financial success of 1000+ relationships including elected officials, hall-of-fame athletes, and serial entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneur
I founded my first company in 2013 that provided wealth management caliber financial solutions at no-cost for the other 97.5% of the population. Inspired by Tim Ferriss’ book, The 4-Hour Workweek, I automated this business, soon finding myself needing to refill purpose for 90 new hours each week.
Rather than thinking about “what to do next” I took the approach of “what have I not done yet?” Being part of the military was a childhood dream. While being called crazy, I enlisted in the Guard and went off to Fort Benning and Officer Candidate School with the ability to maintain one hand on my business.
Soldier
After almost five years of sharing full- and part-time responsibilities with the military and earning a commission as an Infantry officer, I was honorably discharged due to injuries sustained during training. This provoked another recruitment call, this time into the world of military contracting.
Now
Following my discharge I founded my second company that leveraged my corporate and military experience, empowered by a roster of lifelong veteran leaders. We support organizations around the world of all shapes and sizes with Executive Development, Strategic Management, and Organizational Leadership.
For the last eight years, I’ve bounced around the world supporting corporations, governments, and militaries in the scope of organizational leadership, executing globally scaled technical projects interweaving different countries, cultures, and languages in real-time across multiple time zones.
Me
A lifelong obsessive optimizer born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who’s resided in six countries and worked in more than twenty. I enjoy escaping reality in Warhammer, swinging kettlebells, exploring cultures, studying histories, and always trying to be better than I was yesterday.