Professional Career:
- Motivational speaker and leadership consultant
- Author
- Game Changer: Setting Your Mind to Win
- Rethinking Race: Our History’s Achievements and Promising Future
- Former professional educator 21 years, teacher, coach. consultant and administrator
- Former NFL Agent Former sports ministry with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes
- Former team Chaplain Kansas City Chiefs and Royals
- Former professional football player
Personal, Hobbies, In My Spare Time, Unique Facts:
- Father, friend, believer, coach
- Born during Jim Crow in rural Missouri
- Golf, reading. Pitt State football, NFL fan
- Ordained minister
- Coaching youth football players
What I Love About School / The Profession of Education:
- The opportunity to empower others.
- Helping students succeed.
- The camaraderie of peers.
- Making lifelong friends.
- Establishing lifelong learners.
Favorite Quote(s):
“Success is the progressive realization of predetermined worthwhile, personal goals” — Paul J. Meyer
“All men are created equal…” — Thomas Jefferson
Favorite or Most Impactful Teacher Growing Up:
Les Grimes was my math teacher and JV basketball coach. He was a strict disciplinarian who made room for the development and utilization of individual talent. He made the game and learning fun but challenged you to live life on a higher plane.