Spiritcode.
Spiritual growth for people who think in systems.
What is Spiritcode?
Spiritcode is a leadership development method built on one claim: there is a code behind how life and leadership work, and it can be learned. It treats a leader as a whole system, spirit, soul, and body, and maps the practices every coach teaches to that deeper standard. I authored it and coach with it; the book is in progress.
Where it comes from
I have lived two careers at once for most of my adult life. By day, enterprise architecture inside Fortune 100 programs: eleven years at Disney, plus Southwest Airlines, JCPenney, and Vontier, and now founder and CEO of a healthcare technology company. The other career most resumes never show: I am an ordained minister, and I have spent those same decades studying how the unseen side of a person, what I call the spirit, grows or starves while the career compounds. Spiritcode is what those two careers taught each other. The name says it plainly: spirit, the part of you that actually leads, and code, the architect's conviction that there are patterns underneath, and patterns can be learned.
Is Spiritcode religious?
No, and I will not pretend the question away either. Spiritcode is rooted in my Christian conviction, and it is built to be useful to people of any faith or none. There is no religiosity in the room: no jargon, no performance, nothing to sign. The test I hold myself to is simple: the method has to work on the terms of your actual life, your decisions, your peace, your people. What I refuse to do is strip out the depth and sell you the husk. Leaders are not performance machines, and coaching that treats them that way produces exactly the burnout it bills itself as curing.
The method
Every practice the leadership industry teaches has a deeper version. Spiritcode maps one to the other. Self-awareness becomes discernment: learning to read which of your internal programs is actually running. Grit becomes the Equilibrium Audit: knowing the difference between healthy drive and the kind that is quietly destroying you. Servant leadership becomes the Advanced Human: "others" as the real measure of advancement, not a management technique. Resilience becomes the Three Default Explanations: catching the frame you reach for when things go wrong, before it hardens into burnout or fear. Goal setting becomes Where Is the Line: the oldest leadership tension, when to press and when to wait, finally treated as a skill.
The frameworks
The method works from named, authored frameworks. Each has its own page: The Calibration Gap. The Peer Vacuum. The Three Default Explanations. Where Is the Line. The Equilibrium Audit. More are published as the book progresses.
The book
Spiritcode is also a book in progress: the full method, the stories behind it, and the standard it maps to. It follows my co-authored Routledge title, Saving Rural Hospitals: The Transformation Playbook. If you want to read along as it is built, the Insights page and my newsletter carry the working material.
How to engage
Spiritcode is delivered through my coaching practice: one-on-one engagements, a two-day private intensive, and the Spiritcode cohort, a six-month small group of four to eight senior leaders, admitted by application. Coaching details and the application form live on the coaching page.
Last updated: June 2026.