Live Your Authentic Everything.
Meet marc.
I coach people navigating growth and uncertainty — helping them cultivate self-awareness, strengthen judgment, and take deliberate action aligned with who they’re becoming.
“No bird soars too high if they soar with their own wings”
– Adapted from William Blake
Executive Coach & Founder (PCC, NCC)
I didn’t plan to become a coach.
For most of my career, I was a senior leader in a high-performance tech environment, leading global teams and driving growth. By most measures, I was doing well.
At the same time, my personal life was coming apart. A divorce forced me to slow down and look at assumptions I had carried for years — about success, identity, and what security actually meant.
I entered an executive coaching engagement thinking I’d pick up a few better leadership tools.
Instead, I got honest with myself.
CliftonStrengths gave me language for how I’m wired. Ontological coaching helped me see how my patterns of thinking and reacting were shaping my results. For the first time, I wasn’t just performing — I was paying attention to how I showed up.
I brought that work back to my teams. What started as strengths conversations with a few leaders grew into something much bigger across the go-to-market organization. I became Gallup-certified and helped leaders weave coaching into the way they ran their business. That culture is still alive there today.
Eventually, I reached a crossroads. The work I cared most about — developing leaders — had become bigger than my role. I had a decision to make: find another senior leadership position or build something that reflected who I had become.
My top CliftonStrength is Deliberative. I don't jump quickly. I think. I weigh risk. I ask hard questions. And I had to confront one directly — was security a steady paycheck, or was it trusting my own capability?
After months of deliberation and with the support of others, I chose to bet on myself.
That’s how Brightway Coaching began.
Today, I work with executives, founders, and professionals at inflection points — promotions, pivots, organizational change, or simply the quiet question of what’s next.
I don’t rush clients toward answers. I help them slow down, see clearly, and make decisions they can stand behind.
In a world that rewards speed, I help leaders cultivate judgment.
Because real courage isn’t reactive.
It’s deliberate.