Hi, I'm Zach.
I help purpose-driven leaders, empaths, creatives, and heart-centered professionals transform their pain into power, move through deep healing, and realign with their highest potential.
About
My Story
My own journey began after college, when I found myself spiraling through addiction, anxiety, and disconnection. That pain led me to a life-changing chapter at The Himalayan Institute, a yoga and spiritual community where I began the deep healing and training that now forms the foundation of my work. It's also where I became a father to two incredible boys, and committed to a path of authentic leadership, spiritual practice, and service.
For over 20 years, I've studied with master teachers in yoga, tantra, meditation, somatic psychology, addiction and recovery, executive development, and more. Drawing from these systems, I help clients navigate life transitions, emotional healing, and purpose realignment, offering a multidimensional approach tailored to each person's path to help them embrace their true self.
Before founding my coaching practice, I spent more than a decade in product and project management, helping organizations in healthcare, wellness, and tech grow through heart-centered leadership and strategic innovation. Today, I bring that same ingenuity, leadership, clarity, and soulful presence to every coaching session, supporting clients to lead, love, and live from their highest truth.
I live in Madison, Wisconsin, where I work with clients in person, and I coach clients virtually across the U.S., offering transformational coaching that's grounded, intuitive, and designed to catalyze deep healing and embodied change.
My role is to create a container where you can realize your own beliefs. Neutrality and strengthening your unique beliefs is essential to support your path, deepen your tradition, and accelerate your direct experience. I walk beside you with structure, presence, and honesty as you explore and connect with your true Self.
20+years of coaching and teaching
5,000+coaching hours
Hundredsof client transformations
Nothing in our life experience should go to waste. The same raw material that broke a person open becomes the fuel for what they build next. Only then do we uncover our unique path to fulfillment and freedom, and realize the greatest gifts we've been given.
Mission & Philosophy
My mission is to help purpose-driven leaders, empaths, wellbeing practitioners, and sensitive souls transform pain, loss, confusion, and life's hardest chapters into a gateway for healing, clarity, and inner power.
Whether you're moving through divorce, grief, burnout, spiritual awakening, loneliness, or cycles of emotional pain and addiction, my work meets you exactly where you are and helps you build a grounded foundation to move into what's next with clarity, resilience, and compassion.
While I draw from a wide range of tools and modalities, I don't offer quick fixes or a one-size-fits-all formula. I offer a sacred coaching container designed to hold the full spectrum of your human experience: emotional integration, nervous system alignment, whole-person-aligned strategy, and embodied action.
At the heart of this work is a deep commitment: to walk beside you with structure, presence, and devotion as you reclaim your truth, awaken your power, and lead from your grounded center.
I'm not here to fix or heal you. I create the conditions where deep healing, self-trust, and transformation become not only possible, but accelerated, supporting your emergence into your highest potential.
I leverage proven tools and techniques, including somatic experiencing, breathwork, meditation, habit mastery, ritual, values-based alignment, and strategic visioning. But tools are never the goal. My work is always in service of your unique voice, values, and vision, offering personalized guidance to support your highest path forward.
Change and pain are inevitable. But true transformation is a conscious choice. I help clients connect to the deeper intelligence within and build a life their future self will thank them for.
This is more than coaching. It's a sacred return to your wholeness. To your clarity. To the leader and healer within you, fully embodied and awake.
Core Values That Guide My Work
Self-Knowledge as Power
Knowing yourself at every level (body, mind, energy, and soul) is the foundation for all lasting transformation. My work is rooted in helping clients uncover their innate power through their unique power of will, determination, and desire.
Interconnectedness
Healing doesn't happen in isolation. We are profoundly interconnected, and in this work, I honor the web of relationships, systems, and energies that shape us. I hold a strong coaching container with deep alignment and integrity, where connection becomes a mirror, a teacher, and a source of strength.
The Path to Purpose Is Through Fulfillment & Freedom
Change and pain are constant. The ultimate form of freedom (from pain) is living in alignment with your deepest truth. My coaching invites you to reconnect with what matters most, your why, and to let that purpose shape your choices, direction, and impact. Fulfillment isn't found in more; it's found in uncovering the meaning of life.
Creativity as Devotion
To be human is to create. In this work, we honor your creative force, not just in art, but in how you shape your life, your relationships, and your leadership. Together, we close the gap between your desires and your reality, helping you create your unique destiny.
Discernment & Boundaries
Not everything is yours to carry. Discernment is the sacred choice of knowing what is yours to do, and releasing what is not. I practice and teach neutrality in my coaching approach. My goal is to hold space without over-identifying or convincing you of what you should do. Instead, I create an environment that connects you to your own inner guides, to empower your own sovereignty and self-guided transformation.
What Is Transformational Coaching?
Transformational coaching is an individualized, holistic, growth-centered approach that goes far beyond surface-level fixes or change.
It's about healing and empowerment at the root, reconnecting with your highest potential, and creating deep, lasting alignment in your body, heart, mind, and throughout your whole life.
Transformational Coaching Is Not Therapy
While traditional therapy can be valuable, it often leans heavily on the medicalized model, focusing on diagnosis, symptom management, and coping mechanisms. It's also commonly open-ended, without a clearly defined outcome.
Transformational coaching, on the other hand, is focused on wholeness, clarity, total body-mind healing, and forward movement. It's a holistic process that draws from best-in-class approaches to healing and growth, supporting your full human experience: mental, emotional, physical, energetic, and spiritual. This work meets you exactly where you are and guides you toward your highest potential: empowered, embodied, and free.
Traditional Therapy
- Deeply aligned with the medicalized model
- Focuses on past wounds and mental health diagnoses which can reinforce unhelpful patterns
- Emphasizes emotional processing and reflective conversation
- Often open-ended or long-term without a clear outcome
- Typically led by a therapist with clinical training
- Often will not incorporate best-in-class holistic modalities like somatic, spiritual, or energetic tools
- Valuable for managing symptoms or mental crises
Transformational Coaching
- Focuses on growth, clarity, and aligned action to elevate your total healing and empowerment journey
- Addresses the past, but is oriented toward creating your future
- Uses a structured, proven process to support deep change and clear outcomes
- Draws on holistic tools like somatic work, Human Design, and embodiment that respect your full human experience and the total picture of transformation
- Designed for people ready to shift from symptom management to embrace their unique path of deep healing
- An authentic guide that has first-hand experience, and extensive expertise and knowledge, with your unique transformational process
My Sacred Commitment to My Clients
Real transformation requires real commitment (from both you and your guide).
While many clients experience breakthroughs and momentum early on, lasting change doesn't happen overnight. It requires consistency, structure, trust, and a willingness to stay in the process.
When you commit to your healing journey, I commit to you, fully.
This isn't a surface-level process. It's a sacred partnership built on trust, presence, and transformation.
This is why I ask every new client for a real commitment of at least 10 weeks, because true healing takes time, and you deserve a container that honors that depth.
You'll receive:
- My full presence in every session
- A personalized roadmap that we iterate as your evolution and growth morphs and transforms
- Access to text/email in between sessions and a guide sharing insights throughout your healing journey
- Reflections, resources, and insights tailored to your path
- A deeply studied plan rooted in your intake to generate and build momentum from day 1
- A strategic, adaptive process that evolves as you do
You Are the Strategy
There's no one-size-fits-all blueprint for transformation. Yes, tools and modalities can support your path, but they aren't the path itself. YOU ARE THE STRATEGY.
Your unique life, purpose, outcomes, goals, strengths, relationships, weaknesses, pain, limiting beliefs, experience, trauma and more.
What matters most is not which technique we use, but when, why, and how, in alignment with your unique state, story, timing, needs, and nervous system. That's why my coaching isn't cookie-cutter or formulaic. It's integrative, adaptive, and relational.
We draw from powerful frameworks and proven modalities (see below), but we move based on what's alive in you. Every session and every coaching pathway is co-created to accelerate your evolution, not squeeze you into someone else's method...
There are a lot of methods out there: some powerful, some trendy, some helpful for a moment and others for a lifetime. But transformational work is not about picking the perfect modality or technique.
It's about choosing the right approach and strategy for you, at the right moment in your journey. That's why my coaching is integrative, adaptive, and deeply personal. I leverage proven frameworks and strategies, but would never recommend following an AI generated script.
My Expertise & Transformational Tools
Leadership, Systems & Purpose Development
Support for purpose-driven individuals seeking to align vision, strategy, and service with authentic leadership and clarity.
- Authentic leadership coaching
- Strengths, purpose, & values alignment
- Purpose discovery & life path mapping
- Strategic visioning & goal setting
- Systems mapping for purpose/life integration
- Legacy and vision planning
Behavioral Change & Integration
Practical structures and support to turn insight into embodied, sustainable action in daily life.
- Habit mastery & systems implementation
- Time management & energy planning
- Accountability structures that support growth
- Boundaries, communication, and relational development
Relational & Emotional Intelligence
Tools for healing and deepening your connection to self and others through presence, empathy, and emotional maturity.
- Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
- Attachment theory & relational dynamics
- Conflict navigation & boundary setting
- Divorce, separation, and conscious uncoupling
- Inner child healing & reparenting
Mind-Body & Somatic Practices
Tools that reconnect you with the wisdom of your body, regulate your nervous system, and restore grounded presence.
- Somatic Experiencing & nervous system regulation
- Breathwork & pranayama
- Yoga & embodied awareness
- Meditation & mindfulness
- Sacred space creation & ritual design
Healing & Integration
Support to process and release emotional pain, trauma, and inherited patterns, so you can fully integrate past experiences.
- Shadow work & emotional clearing
- Parts-work
- Trauma-informed coaching
- Voice activation / sound work
- Conscious movement & intuitive dance
- Past-based belief deconditioning
Psycho-Spiritual Insight Tools
For spiritual seekers to help reveal your deeper design, spiritual blueprint, and soul-level clarity to guide aligned choices.
- Gene Keys & profile interpretation
- Human Design strategy & authority guidance
- Intuition development
- Feminine and masculine energy
- Spiritual direction rooted in presence and embodiment
I've Been Called a Lot of Things Over the Years…
- Transformational Coach
- Emotional Fulfillment Coach
- Guide & Wisdom Keeper
- Purpose Realignment Coach
- Resilience and Mindset Coach
- Somatic Healer
- Leadership Coach
- "Mind-Body-Breath" Expert
- Life Strategist and Personal Development Coach
- Psycho-Spiritual Coach
- Divorce Coach
- Grief Coach
- And more…
No Matter What I Am Called… Here's What I Know:
Labels don't matter. Results do.
- This isn't surface level coaching.
- This is not performative healing.
- We aren't bypassing anything.
- We go deep. We get honest. We shift what's no longer working.
- And we build the life your future self will thank you for.
Whatever the label, one thing stays the same: we do the work that actually transforms your life.
Your Journey Begins Here
Real transformation starts with one courageous step: reaching out and scheduling your free strategy session. This 3-step process is designed to make it simple, grounded, and clear.
Book Your Free Strategy Session
This virtual session is a relaxed, no-pressure space to talk openly, gain clarity, and explore what kind of support might serve you best. You'll also learn more about my coaching approach and the next steps, so you can decide if this journey feels aligned. No hype. No pressure. Just honest conversation, meaningful insight, and a strategic space to support what's next for you.
Receive A Clear Transformational Path Forward
Together, we'll map out a personalized coaching journey to accelerate your healing, growth, and alignment. The path is strategic, but never rigid. We'll refine it as you evolve to honor your process and support your highest potential.
Quick Wins & Early Breakthroughs
Complete a short intake to generate momentum and help us hit the ground running before your first session. This step lays the foundation for rapid insight, early breakthroughs, and real traction in your healing and empowerment journey.
Life-Changing Results:
Save Years of Trial and Error
Get the depth, structure, and personalized guidance you need to move forward with clarity, confidence, and far less wasted time and energy.
If you're ready for true, embodied change, your next evolution starts here.
Book Your Free Strategy Session