Clif has developed and delivered practical mindfulness training to tens of thousands of corporate and government leaders and professionals with measurable impact on employee leadership, performance and well-being.
Following his passion for developing others, he built Ernst and Young’s (EY) Mindful Leadership program, delivering practical training to over 150,000 people, including EY professionals and clients, with measurable impact on performance, leadership and wellbeing.
Before devoting much of his time to creating and managing mindfulness programs, Clif led EY into a new market, winning multi-million dollar deals for the firm as an account leader in the Government and Public Sector practice. Immediately prior to joining EY, he managed diligence projects across several sectors including financial services, telecommunications, and government at private investment firm Granahan McCourt Capital (GMC). Prior to GMC, he was a Vice President at JP Morgan Chase where he helped create the firm’s first cyber threat and protective intelligence collection, reporting, and analysis policy and program.
Clif’s experience in the private sector is preceded by 17 years in the US Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, and broader Intelligence Community, where he served as an intelligence officer managing and carrying out signals intelligence and controlled and overt human intelligence collection operations around the globe including deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Clif’s personal journey from poverty to prosperity is a key motivating factor for his work as an executive coach and keynote speaker helping others achieve success despite their self-limiting beliefs and challenging circumstances. His coaching clients have included CEOs, CROs, CISOs, university administrators, veterans, troubled youth and others.
His keynotes as well as his insights gleaned from successfully bringing mindfulness into the corporate setting, are sought after by many organizations, including major universities, corporations, leadership conferences and non-profits nationally and internationally where he’s been invited to speak.
Clif is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher, a certified Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence teacher, an ICF certified executive coach, and an accomplished public speaker. He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems from Bellevue University and Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Clif and his wife, Jen, live with their son in Virginia.
