About

Matthew brings 15 years of experience designing and facilitating adaptive leadership coaching and professional development and has coached or trained over 1600 leaders in his approach grounded in Emotional Intelligence Leadership Theory. This work includes coaching and OD training training for C- level leaders in the business, non-profit, federal government, higher education, and K-12 education sectors. Matthew is an ICF PCC-certified executive coach. He is also a founding faculty member, Meta-Coach, and curriculum developer for Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence Coaching & Training Programs.

Prior to his executive coaching career, Matthew was an award-winning international and urban public-school teacher and principal, founder of a school leader residency training program, and senior director of adaptive leadership for a large charter management organization. Matthew became an educator to close the opportunity gap and fight for racial and economic justice. He became an executive coach and trainer to support mission-driven leaders to reach their full potential and create the same transformational conditions for the people they lead.

Matthew recently pushed a book entitled “The Noble School Leader: The Five-Square Approach to Leading Schools with Emotional Intelligence.” It is a practical guide for school leaders and managers seeking concrete strategies for professional improvement and is a contributing author for a series of primers within the “Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence: 12 Leadership Competency Primers” by Dr. Daniel Goleman et al.