About Me -- I am a trainer deeply invested in hands-on learning, certainly when it comes to leading.

My Work -- Negotionics workshops are 70% activity-based. All case- study material is volunteered by our audience and acted out under the collaboration rubric. No P.T. Barnum, "I know and you don't" style lecturing.

My Community -- My community is anyone who is willing to shed power in order to gain influence. As reviewer Jack Magnus writes, "As I read his chapters describing how collaboration works best, I wished I had known about this when I was a manager."

My Journey -- I began my adult life as a Marine Corps infantry officer during Viet Nam. Steeped in top-down authority, I was stunned when I returned to civilian life. Nothing worked. So I studied collaborative leadership with Tom Gordon's LEADER EFFECTIVENESS INSTITUTE in 1984. I have taught it at the university level since 1991. I think of myself as the biggest learner in the class.