Global Impact

My Core Principle: I do not chase superficial solutions; instead, I embrace the necessary trade-offs that allow me to reveal (not to mention, nurture and cultivate) enduring, meaningful, and authentic individual characters.

My work has touched thousands of lives globally, particularly among marginalized groups. At Israel’s ABA Center at Zinman College, I led a Sports Research Program addressing school dropouts and presented the model at the 1999 AIESEP Congress. My work expanded to the ABA Center in Beijing, The European Union, and UNHCR programs in East Africa. In 2024, I initiated the Context-Informed Prevention Strategies (CIPS) model in collaboration with Taking Action for Good (TAG) at the Progressing Under Restraints & Extremes (PURE) Academy in Memphis, TN, and the Desoto County Sheriff’s School Resource Officers Program in Hernando, Mississippi. As TAG’s CIPS lead, I bridge the gap between skillset and mindset, integrating practical behavioral strategies into existing prevention programs – a concept I plan to introduce throughout the different leagues such as the NFL, NBA, MLB, MLS etc. TAG, founded by Ms. Alice Marie Johnson (Pardon Czar-2025), actively serves communities nationwide. My unique background allows me to provide unconventional, cross-cultural, and practical training focused on distinguishing key behavioral components and their triggers. This empowers coaches to more effectively share their social development goals with their players and within the community – a claim that is currently being pursued across the sports world.

My book: The Pains of Adjustment There are two kinds of pain: Pain that hurts, Pain that alters. The book will hurt those providing pseudo services with ulterior motives. But the book aims to alter the current way in which we intentionally execute our intended intentions. Alterations are to make practical functional adjustments by breaking with traditional habits. One should rather alter a behavior than change a behavior. The latter enhances the chances that one could be met with fiercer resistance. This goes for the service provider as well as the beneficiary.