Michael’s coaching combines executive leadership experience, deep relationship insight, cognitive-behavioral principles, and disciplined self-examination 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 functional understanding of human behavior, emotional response, and relational dynamics to his coaching approach.
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-level leadership, giving him direct experience with accountability, difficult decisions, team dynamics, competing demands, and responsibility for outcomes.
Leadership is not only about your position, authority, or professional achievement. It reveals how you think under pressure, manage emotion, communicate through conflict, carry responsibility, respond to uncertainty, and influence the people depending upon you.
Leadership demands rarely stay contained at work. They can affect your confidence, patience, decision-making, communication, family life, relationships, and personal direction. Michael helps you examine how you carry responsibility, how you respond when demands increase, and how you can lead with steadier judgment, stronger self-command, and greater alignment between who you are and how you perform.
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 navigating serious relational strain, communication breakdown, and the difficult process of rebuilding trust and connection. This gives Michael direct insight into how private strain, avoidance, resentment, emotional reactivity, unspoken expectations, and self-protective patterns can shape the way we relate to those closest to us.
For many of us, personal relationship challenges are not isolated from the rest of life. The way we communicate, handle conflict, receive criticism, manage disappointment, protect ourselves emotionally, or withdraw under pressure often connect directly to how we perceive ourselves, carry responsibility, and respond to the situations in our path.
Michael addresses how you engage across your four major relationship categories: romantic, professional, familial, and platonic. It is not about judgment. It is about understanding the inner patterns shaping your connections so you can respond with greater maturity, compassion, and responsibility.
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 principles within a real-world, non-clinical coaching framework to help you understand the connection between interpretation, emotion, and response. A situation matters, but the meaning you assign to it often shapes how you feel, react, communicate, and respond with intention.
Through Michael’s coaching, you learn how to slow down enough to critically examine what is actually happening, identify the assumptions influencing your response, separate what is real from reflexive thoughts and emotions, and move forward with more rational judgment and deliberate action.
This approach helps you recognize the gap between what you consciously want and the internal patterns pulling you away from it. From there, our work becomes more focused: clearer thinking, grounded self-control, more responsible choices, and action that better reflects the man you intend to be.
FAQs
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If you are ready to identify what is driving the pressure, untangle the patterns shaping your responses, understand your situations more clearly, and move forward with deliberate, informed decisions, then working with Michael is right for you.
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Coaching helps you move from confusion, pressure, and reactive patterns toward clarity, responsibility, disciplined decisions, stronger relationships, and meaningful growth. Michael applies structured, rational coaching methods grounded in real-world leadership experience, cognitive-behavioral principles, and substantive work with couples navigating serious relational strain, communication breakdown, and rebuilding trust and connection. Through coaching, you learn to examine what is actually happening, identify the assumptions influencing your response, separate what is real from reflexive thoughts and emotions, and move forward with more rational judgment and deliberate action. He does not provide licensed medical care, psychotherapy, or mental-health treatment, and he does not diagnose, treat, or cure mental-health conditions. Anyone who needs mental-health treatment should work with a licensed mental healthcare provider.
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Yes. Michael provides private, one-on-one coaching for men in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, with online sessions available nationwide.
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Yes. Coaching conversations are private and handled with care, respect, discretion, and dignity.
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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 development and master-level professional life coaching services. Pricing is based on the coaching path developed between you and Michael after your complimentary introductory session. Discounts are available for military members, veterans, and all who serve within the first responder community.