About David
I didn’t get fired.
But I still walked away feeling like I’d failed.
The firm brought in an outsider to lead the team, a role I’d assumed I was building toward.
I stayed professional.
I kept it together.
But something had already started to feel off well before that moment.
Not because I lacked experience.
Not because I wasn’t capable.
Something in my work had stopped feeling solid long before the announcement.
— I was stretching myself thin.
— Carrying pressure I didn’t talk about.
— Overthinking decisions that used to be easy.
Not because I lacked experience.
Not because I wasn’t capable.
Something in my work no longer felt solid, and I didn’t have language for it yet.
All I knew was that forcing myself harder wasn’t fixing anything.
So I rebuilt how I work from the ground up.
I stopped relying on willpower and started designing for clarity and steadiness instead.
Nothing fancy. Just systems that reduced noise instead of adding to it.
That shift changed how I showed up at work.
And eventually, it changed my career.
The work I do now
Today, I work with senior leaders who are capable but haven’t locked into a direction.
— They’ve led teams.
— They’ve built things that mattered.
— They’ve earned the right to have options.
And that’s the problem.
— Too many viable paths.
— Too much second-guessing.
— No clear direction to commit to.
I help leaders choose one path that actually fits, tighten their positioning around it, and move forward with clarity.
Where leaders tend to get stuck
Most people I work with recognize themselves here:
— A resume that’s solid, but unfocused
— A LinkedIn profile that points in a few directions at once
— A network that’s wide, but not aimed anywhere
— Strong experience that isn’t landing cleanly
It creates that constant feeling of hovering between options.
That’s where momentum breaks down.
The structure behind the work
I built my approach around a few things I wish I’d had earlier:
— Choosing one direction that actually makes sense now.
— Making my story point clearly in that direction.
— Showing up in the right conversations
— Turning that visibility into real opportunities
When those line up, things start moving again.
Why work with me
Before coaching, I spent 20 years in recruiting, HR, and hiring leadership.
I’ve been:
— An agency recruiter
— An in-house HR leader
— A senior hiring manager
I’ve worked with hedge funds, private equity firms, asset managers, and large operating companies.
I know how leadership hiring decisions are actually made and why strong candidates stall when their direction isn’t clear.
That’s what the work is built around.
— We cut noise.
— We lock in direction.
— We give the search structure.
If you’re done weighing every option and ready to move forward, Momentum is where we do that work.
If that’s where you are, you can book a time to talk below.