Michael’s coaching combines executive leadership experience, relationship insight, cognitive-behavioral principles, and rational self-reflection to help you understand what is driving your responses.
From there, he helps you think more clearly, challenge unhelpful patterns, and move you toward rational, responsible action.
Michael gives you room to speak honestly and be seen, heard, challenged, and guided through validating yet honest conversations. His Behavioral Health Paraprofessional training adds a deeper, practical understanding of human behavior to his coaching style.
Michael’s leadership coaching is grounded in decades of real responsibility, not theory alone. His military and civilian careers moved across multiple levels, from frontline supervision through executive leadership positions.
Executive leadership is not only about position or authority. It is about how you think under pressure, make decisions, communicate through conflict, carry responsibility, and positively influence those around you toward greater trust, performance, and organizational success.
Michael helps you examine how you engage with the roles that matter most to you, both professionally and personally, so you can lead successfully and confidently.
Michael’s relationship coaching perspective is shaped by the work he shares with his wife, Amanda May, M.S., through Nashville Relationship Experts, their marriage and relationship coaching practice.
Together, they support couples through serious relational strain and repair, giving Michael insight into how private pressure enters close relationships.
Michael addresses how you engage across your four personal relationship types: romantic, professional, familial, and platonic. It is not about judgement. It is about understanding the inner patterns shaping your connections so you can respond with greater intention, compassion, and maturity.
Michael’s coaching is informed by cognitive-behavioral principles and rational thought examination associated with Dr. Aaron T. Beck’s Cognitive Model of Emotional Response, Dr. Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Dr. Maxie C. Maultsby Jr.’s Rational Behavior Therapy (RBT), and Dr. Aldo Pucci’s Rational Living Therapy (RLT).
Michael applies these ideas within a non-clinical coaching framework to help explain the connection between interpretation, emotion, and response. A situation matters, but the meaning you assign to it often shapes how you respond emotionally and behaviorally.
The goal is to identify the gap between what you consciously want and the internal patterns pulling you away from it, then move toward more rational thinking, grounded self-control, and responsible action.
Michael provides private one-on-one coaching with you online from anywhere nationwide, with in-person sessions also available locally in Middle Tennessee.
FAQs
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Yes! Michael provides private one-on-one coaching for you online from anywhere nationwide, with in-person sessions also available locally in Middle Tennessee.
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If you are ready to understand what is driving the pressure, see your situation more clearly, and move forward with deliberate intention, then working with Michael is right for you.
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Coaching focuses on clarity, responsibility, decisions, leadership, relationships, and forward movement. Michael does not diagnose or treat mental-health conditions.
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Yes. Coaching conversations are private and handled with care, respect, and discretion.
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No. Coaching is not a medical or clinical service, so insurance cannot be accepted.
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Strategic Life Coaching for Men provides private executive leadership and life coaching for high-responsibility men. Pricing depends on the coaching path developed after the complimentary introductory session. Discounts are available for military members, veterans, and first responders.