About You

You’re passionate to change the world, starting with yourself, and you know that within your being is all the power, intelligence and spirit you will ever need. You realize that to express your highest potential and fulfill your greatest aspirations you must consistently bring your very best self forward to meet every moment. You’re ready to do whatever it takes to make this happen but in our busy world you need a proven learning experience that will meet your unique needs.

You understand that to bring about the conditions you wish to see in the world you must begin by embodying the qualities you hope the world will embrace. You also realize that the only way to become the person you aspire to be is through accessing your innate spiritual and moral intelligence and allowing this consciousness to guide and shape your life and work. You seek support on your learning journey and desire insight from like-minded heart warriors.

About Me

Like you I’ve been on a journey of inner growth intrinsically connected to making a difference in the world. My inner path formally began when, fresh out of high school, I became a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda. Years living in Yogananda’s meditative community were followed by decades serving his global organization in various capacities, all the while steadily growing my understanding of the ancient meditative path. 

My early work in organizational arenas included successfully engaging the world as an entrepreneur, business owner, serial change agent, and grassroots leader--always with an eye to building healthy collectives where people have every opportunity to learn, grow and do their finest work. Eventually I moved into professionally supporting others doing organizational development and coaching a wide variety of social movement leaders.  

About Working Together

Whether I’m serving you as a coach, advisor or project leader; whether we're focusing on your personal life, your professional endeavors, or your organization, our relationship is fundamental to everything we do. Put another way, how we work together will determine everything we might accomplish.  

How we work together will determine everything we might accomplish.  

What I strive to bring to every one of these forms of engagement is the ability to listen deeply and understand what is actually happening, which can be quite different from what the challenge appears to be or what clients start out wanting to address.  Our work together is to get under the surface of any given situation and pull out the fundamental truths in order to identify the deeper shifts that are calling for attention to bring about the hoped for outcomes.

Essential to our work together is honesty, integrity, truth telling, and a sustained shared passion for advancing genuine transformational growth for all concerned.

Testimonial 

More than any other mentor, I think back to lessons David Stember has passed on, in personal and timely ways. David's wisdom runs deep - whether it comes to developing the skills and mindsets for transformational work or helping your group move through crisis and crossroads moments. David's combination of spiritual, business, and movement experience, combined with a natural gift for mentoring and facilitation is a crucial resource for our troubled times. 

Joe Solomon - writer, activist, bookseller