About David
Physician. Coach. Husband. Father. Friend.
David is a physician, coach, husband, father, and friend whose life has been driven by one enduring question: How do people grow?
From his early days serving as Director of Men's Personal Growth for a thousand-student college ministry (what did that 21-year-old kid know about growth, anyway?) to years spent serving in Africa, to his current work mentoring students, teaching residents, and caring for high-risk mothers in a busy urban hospitalā€”this question has always been the thread.
Over time, David discovered that the most important sphere of growth wasn't his family, his work, or his students. It was himself.
Like most men, he carried an "I've got this" kind of confidence, assuming that knowledge, willpower, and inspiration would be enough. The truth? It worked for a whileā€”until it didn't.
Nothing brought David to the end of himself like fatherhood.
Not the day after his wedding when his wife's health took a devastating turn.
Not the 80-hour workweeks of surgical training.
Not getting stabbed with an HIV-positive needle.
Fatherhood.
God saw fit to give David three sons. If he'd had one, he might have tried to wing it. But three? That was a new calling: to become a manmaker. And that noble task doesn't come naturally to workaholics with insecure overachiever tendencies. Sound familiar?
David had to learn the long way so you don't have to. He applied the same intellectual rigor that made him a doctor and dove deep into the psychology of boyhood, the dynamics of attachment, and the spiritual formation of men.
If there's an intense way to do something, David's going to find it. That drive led him to pursue executive coach certification under best-selling author and psychologist Dr. John Townsend.
Coaching physicians would have been the obvious next stepā€”but it wasn't the calling God placed on his heart.