As a coach Marty draws on his intertwined experience – the good, bad, and the ugly, in the context of his thorough coach training and practice – Newfield Networks and ICF Professional Certified Coach, decades dedicated to disciplines of mindfulness, awareness, and inquiry (Jewish and Buddhist), and the school of hard knocks. Marty’s dominant threads include wide-ranging experience as a serial entrepreneur, business, and organizational builder in every type and stage from bootstrapped to publicly traded, for-profit, not-for-profit, and social enterprise, and in demanding seats including founder, CEO, senior executive, board member, and partner.
Marty realizes that his most valuable learning likely came from his biggest ‘almost’ successes including one flaming failure. He’s also prioritized the thread of social engagement and impact in all his ventures. But central to all is still the thread of family, community, and friendships.
As a coach, Marty is simultaneously tough, kind, truthful, empathic, open, honest, and humorous. He’ll never tell you ‘what to do’ or grade you on your ‘homework’ reminding you only that empowerment, and accountability belong to you.
Beyond coaching, Marty has regularly paid it forward, through service on numerous Boards including an Advisory Board at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Dalhousie University’s MBA Advisory Board, the international Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure, as Chair of the Authentic Leadership in Action Institute (global) and Naropa University, and teaching and consulting internationally.
You’re likely to wonder (or ask Marty) how this Brooklyn boy’s thread wound from NYC through Boston, Boulder Colorado, Nova Scotia Canada, and now more than six years in the central highlands of Mexico. He says he will just tell you that ‘it’s a three-tequila story’.
