“Andy brings an amazing presence to his coaching; you feel enfolded in love and support, and deeply uplifted by his positive regard and positive intention for his clients. His coaching feels like gentle guidance, but calls you to your deepest challenges and your biggest self!”

My Background

My 15 years at Target Corporation have been absolutely amazing, including leading the global Point of Sale software development team with 60,000 in-store cash registers on our watch, supporting millions of transactions per day. I led this team during and through the company’s 2013 data breach, and I realized just how much I cared about all the human beings involved – from our guests to my team and their families. That human connection became the catapult into my growing work in coaching and talent development, and my information technology experience planted the seeds of Agility and Product thinking that I’ve now taken to countless leaders and their business areas. I am passionate in taking what I’ve learned about high-performing teams, enlightened leaders, an Agile mindset, and the urgency of an intentional life to help teams excel.

I worked my way through college, coding an Inventory Management system from scratch for my home-town employer, and completed my undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Music Performance from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. I decided early on I wanted to learn from people farther along than I was, in terms of building great companies and products, and my work brought me to project management at Weyerhaeuser, team leadership and coaching at Emerson, and then Target where I’ve had roles in Target’s credit card business, stores, merchandising, and supply chain. Called to coaching during cancer, I completed my Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from the University of St. Thomas in May 2018. I also in 2018 completed my first album of original music, Meaning to Tell You, the release party for which was attended by over 300 people, as a celebration of my family’s victory over cancer.

Today I am known as a go-to Agile coach and executive coach for growing leaders, team members in transition, and folks looking to invigorate their creativity and their emotional intelligence. Business Agility, information technology, and the arts are expert areas I generously consult on, yet my clients consistently get more: the realization that nobody else is going to live their life, and have their priorities. And they can start living more fully, and successfully, right now. My clients don’t ‘solve’ work/life balance – they live it – for themselves, and for the teams they lead.

Why I Work

“My personal mission is to encourage, affirm, and realize, in lasting and renewable ways, beauty, love, growth, and respect for all human beings. Having survived cancer, I feel a new vigor and urgency to reach as many people as possible, with my teaching, coaching, music, speaking, and leadership. I am living life to the fullest, and will keep encouraging – and challenging – others to do the same.”