Scrawny kid.
Navy SEAL.
Harvard MBA.
Single dad.
All of it true.
Bullies called me Feivel: the mouse from the Disney movies. I grew up as a scrawny, half-immigrant kid with no family in the military or business. No blueprint. No connections. Just a conviction that the gap between where I was and where I wanted to be was closeable — if I had the right mindset, habits, and systems.
Combat. Code. Capital. Science. The full operator's playbook — not aphorisms. Tools.
Most ex-military speakers bring one chapter to the stage. I bring that, plus 15 years inside tech and finance. First PM hired into Amazon Alexa AI. AI product leader at a16z-backed startups. Two stints in women's fashion — yes, really. Wall Street trader. Harvard MBA. And underneath it all: methods grounded in science. CBT for stuck thinking. PERMA for sustainable performance. Nervous-system regulation for high-stakes moments. Not war stories. Working tools.
The Arc
How you build something from nothing.
2000
U.S. Naval Academy
Graduated Annapolis and commissioned as a Naval officer. No family in the military. First generation everything.
2000–2008
Navy SEAL Officer
Started on a ship — navigating heavily trafficked seas as Officer of the Deck while the captain slept. Then BUD/S, the Trident, and combat missions for a joint task force in Iraq. Bronze Star with Combat V for valor. Protected the Vice President of Iraq.
2010
Harvard Business School
MBA. The strategic and financial layer that makes the rest of the operator's playbook complete.
2010
Wall Street
Derivatives trader at Barclays Capital in electricity — the most volatile securities market on the planet. Learned to make decisions when every option feels wrong.
2012–2024
Tech Operator
First PM hired into Amazon Alexa AI. AI product leadership at Andreessen Horowitz–backed startups, Capital One, Wayfair, and beyond — spanning AI, logistics, healthcare, finance, and fashion.
Now
Inevitable
Keynote speaker. Executive coach. Host of The Warrior Poet podcast. Founder of Inevitable — helping founders and senior leaders build teams that move with ownership, speed, and judgment.
Off the Stage
The parts that don't fit on a speaker reel.
I'm a single dad of three. I hack at the guitar. I take my kids to rap concerts (Childish Gambino was a highlight). I have an ADHD brain and read too many books at once. I grow 10 kinds of basil alongside heirloom tomatoes and peri peri peppers with hydroponics. I think deeply about neuroscience, philosophy, food, and what it means to lead well — especially when it's hard.
Cause it usually is.
I'm the founder of Inevitable and host The Warrior Poet podcast.
ADHD Brain
Diagnosed, owned, and weaponized. The same wiring that makes focus hard makes pattern-recognition fast.
Single Dad
Two kids. Childish Gambino concerts. The most important leadership role I hold.
The Guitar
Hacking at it. Not performing. Some things exist just because you love them.
Hydroponic Cucumbers
Basement garden. Quiet systems. Growing things on purpose.
The Podcast
The Warrior Poet.
Conversations with people who've operated at the edge — founders, operators, athletes, traders, SEALs. 100+ episodes. The same curiosity that drives the coaching drives the show.
See all episodes →Why I Do This
I know what it looks like when organizations execute well. And when they don't.
I've been inside the rooms where the best teams in the world make decisions under pressure. I've also watched brilliant people fail to execute — not because they lacked talent, but because they were running the wrong system. Missing the right culture. Leading from the wrong identity.
Now I help founders and senior leaders do the thing they say they want to do: build teams that move with ownership, speed, and judgment. Not through platitudes. Through frameworks forged in places where getting it wrong had consequences.