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Meet Our Collaborative Supergroup

Collaborative

Collaborative Experts With Rockstar Swagger

Whether coming at the problem of Collaborative Dysfunction from the perspective of behavioral science, data science, global executive management, or the real world experience of touring musicians, our unique team is the ultimate supergroup of collaborative experts. Together we harmonize our expertise to leverage the True Collaboration®  system to uniquely help every client radically improve their collaborative performance and amplify their collective genius.

Home Base: Atlanta, GA

First Concert: The Police

Band that makes me feel like a fan: U2

Book(s) that’s changed my life: Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Switch, Leadership and Self Deception

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I played in 17 countries as frontman for the band Five Star Iris.
  2. I successfully built and sold my first company by the time I was 30.
  3. I entertained US servicemen and women all over the world, including Iraq.
  4. I consulted for GMR Marketing and Best Buy.
  5. I sang the national anthem at a NASCAR race on national television.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I flew a C-130 over the Middle East.
  2. I won a countywide essay contest on brotherhood while in the third grade.
  3. I’ve been to the British Virgin Islands 19 times and counting.
  4. I don’t go see very much live music.
  5. I never wanted to be a singer or songwriter. I learned how because I needed them.

Home Base: Currently married with five children, based in Malibu, CA

First Concert: KISS

Band that makes me feel like a fan: STP – Saw them on New Year’s Eve, forgot it was New Year’s Eve 

Book(s) that changed my life: The Atom. Read it when I was 6 over 100 times. It’s out of print, completely wrong, but drove my intellectual curiosity.  

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I’ve been the CEO of four companies: Citysearch, Evite, Superpages, and LeaseVille.
  2. I’ve run companies as small as $5M in revenue to over $1B. 
  3. I worked in the music industry for over 10 years, heading up Marketing for EMI North America.  I worked with a wide range of artists including the Beatles, Garth Brooks, Pink Floyd, Cold Play, Foo Fighters, and Radiohead.
  4. I grew Citysearch’s traffic from 2M unique users to over 25M in two years.  
  5. The businesses I’ve run have all had to be turned around, and I was able to do that with all of them. 

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I raced motocross and was ranked competitively in skiing.
  2. As Citysearch was unprofitable and unprofessional, I declared I would wear a tie every day until we reached profitability.
  3. I’m fairly certain I ran the first ever SEO campaign.
  4. I convinced MTV to have an unknown band, Radiohead, to be their first performance at the MTV Beach House. The rest is history. 

Home Base: Minneapolis, MN

First Concert: They Might be Giants

Band that makes me feel like a fan: The Jayhawks

Book(s) that’s changed my life: Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time, Healthy Work: Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction Of Working Life

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I teach graduate and MBA courses on leadership, well-being, and organizational behavior at the University of Minnesota.
  2. I won several awards, including Most Influential Paper Award, from the Academy of Management for research on negotiation and the Strategic Priority Award from Target Corporation for a global enterprise leadership competency model.
  3. While in graduate school, I published a book on the science of cooperation.
  4. I authored numerous research articles published in psychology and management journals.
  5. I presented employee engagement and organizational effectiveness research at international scientific conferences, including in Cergy, France, Cork, Ireland, and Toronto, Canada.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I have lived in New Zealand, Israel, Boston, and Ithaca, NY but keep coming back to Minneapolis. My wife, my four kids, and I love spending the summer camping on the north shore of Lake Superior and spending spring break in St. John, USVI.
  2. After college, I worked as a mental health counselor for children at a residential treatment center in Boston. The summer before starting my PhD, I spent several days biking through the Loire Valley in France.

Home Base: Charlevoix, MI

First Concert: New Kids on the Block

Band that makes me feel like a fan: Incubus

Book(s) that’s changed my life: Thinking Fast and Slow

What my publicist will tell you:  

  1. I’m a Card-carrying MENSA member.
  2. I’m the DJ Khaled of data science.
  3. I’m an award-winning marketer and trainer (and somehow still a pretty nice guy).

Things that might surprise you: 

  1. I’m a founding member of Hipster Picnic 
  2. I’ve seen so much of The Office that Netflix stopped asking, “Are You Still Watching?” 
  3. I have more cows than children.
  4. I only know like four magic tricks, but they will explode your mind.

Home Base: Cocoa, FL

First Concert: Hall & Oates

Band that makes me feel like a fan: Prince

Book(s) that’s changed my life: Chasing Francis, Switch, Fox in Socks

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I was recently selected as one of the country’s “Top 10 Motivational Speakers.” 
  2. I am a critically acclaimed author, award-winning musician, and podcast host.
  3. I am CEO and founder of Rock Star Impact, a boutique agency that teaches people and organizations how to cultivate values-based leadership. 
  4. Passionate, engaging, and transformational, I encourage audiences to discover their “Black Sheep Values” and move forward with deliberate intention. My interactive and entertaining techniques of defining what matters most compels audiences to dive deeper into their lives and start living on purpose.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I played the school bully on Nickelodeon’s “Welcome Freshman.”
  2. I lived in hospital for 263 straight days with my son who successfully beat cancer!
  3. I am an ordained pastor.
  4. I was voted best dancer in high school.
  5. I broke several baseball records in the state of New Hampshire.
  6. I have owned over 50 cars!
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Home Base: Smith Mountain lake, VA

First Concert: The Moody Blues

Band that makes me feel like a fan: The Eagles

Book(s) that’s changed my life: Leadership and Self Deception

What my publicist will tell you: 

  1. I served in the United States Air Force and worked for Colin Powell and Dick Cheney.
  2. I’m a lifelong coach and mentor – “Inspiring others to greatness”.
  3. I spent three years in Saudi Arabia leading the development of local nationals to lead the expansion of a major IT company.
  4. I’m a thought leader in how to drive change and build culture within sales organizations.
  5. I’m focused on being a mission partner with my customers.

Things that might surprise you: 

  1. Pickleball is my passion. 
  2. I enjoy section hiking the Appalachian Trail.
  3. I’m an avid X-Box gamer at 70 years of age (first-person shooter games).
  4. I’m learning to play guitar (harder than I thought).
  5. I love to learn new things – I just learned about fluid dynamics. 

Home Base: Atlanta, GA

First Concert: The Police (with Joan Jett)

Band that makes me feel like a fan: Foo Fighters

Book(s) that’s changed my life: The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I built and sold an internet company at age 30.
  2. I enjoy tackling complex problems.
  3. I entertained troops all over the world playing in a band.
  4. I am a “Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech.”

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I used to have hair down to my waist.
  2. I can cook some mean Szechuan food.
  3. I wound up meeting my wife as a result of fixing someone’s computer.
  4. I’ve never seen Castaway, Dances with Wolves, or Titanic.

Home Base: Atlanta, GA

First Concert: Rush

Band that makes me feel like a fan: Snarky Puppy

Book(s) that’s changed my life: Brian Eno – A Year 

What my publicist will tell you: 

  1. I have played over 2,000 live gigs in 42 states and nine foreign countries.
  2. I have worked with nine Grammy Award winners and one Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member.
  3. I’ve been the Operations Manager at Tunefruit music license library since 2017.
  4. I have over 200 album appearances (rock, hip hop, country, and jazz) including nine Top 40 singles in various formats.
  5. I’ve been a successful small business owner for 15 years.

Things that might surprise you: 

  1. I once performed for a crowd of over 60,000 and a crowd of less than 60… in the same week.
  2. I am an avid record collector.
  3. My favorite relaxing jam… reading
  4. I’ve driven from Miami to Maine, SanDiego to Seattle and everywhere in-between.
  5. I know KungFu.

Home Base: Boston, MA

First Concert: Leon Redbone

Band that makes me feel like a fan: Any artist(s) that have played our backyard or living room. More on that later…

Book(s) that’s changed my life: The Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives by Dan Millman. It is what it says it is.

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I’m a conflict management practitioner and Master’s candidate at the UMass Boston McCormack Graduate School, organizational ombuds (“om, what?”) at Brandeis University, and mediator.
  2. I am a 2020 recipient of the Donald Paulson Service Award in Conflict Resolution in recognition of “outstanding service in the field of conflict resolution, both within the program at UMass Boston and to the wider conflict resolution field.”
  3. I’m a former Chief of Staff and Director in technology at Fidelity Investments as well as a panelist, advocate, and ally for the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Program.
  4. I advise and volunteer with global and local community-based organizations such as Stone & Compass, SPUR, Common Impact, Beyond Walls, and the Me & Thee Coffeehouse.
  5. I create rapid understanding and alignment around concepts and ideas through visual illustration and design.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. My wife and I host the “Homegrown” house concert series. Our school-age kids have an associated bakery “business” that donates profits to causes they care about.
  2. One of our kids is illustrating a colleague’s new book on unshakable leadership.
  3. I am a 2018 gold medalist at the World Flying Disc Federation Ultimate Frisbee World Championships and a bronze medalist at the 2019 WFDF Pan-American Ultimate Frisbee Championships.
  4. I have been known to create a company in 10 minutes (with a cool logo and tagline) and even sold one as a co-founder.
  5. When I was seven years-old, my family and I took transatlantic passage on an oil tanker.

Home Base: Atlanta, GA

First Concert: Listening to my dad play guitar

Band that makes me feel like a fan: Five Star Iris

A Book(s) that’s changed my life: Bad Dog (I ate it when I was a puppy)

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I’m highly skilled at chasing and catching tennis balls.
  2. I was able to reach an agreement to live harmoniously with three cats.
  3. I can shake on demand with both paws.
  4. I am a proud rescued shelter dog.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I fake having to go to the bathroom so I can go outside to eat worms.
  2. I successfully completed a cross country road trip with my parents.
  3. I got my name from a fan of my dad’s band on Facebook.

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Home Base: Boston, MA

First Concert: Stryper

Band that makes me feel like a fan: Crowded House

Book(s) that’s changed my life: The Gospel of John

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I was featured alongside American Idol’s Alex Preston by Berklee College of Music for a performance entitled “An Evening With New England’s Top Songwriters.”
  2. “One of the brightest songwriters and storytellers coming out of the Northeast these days is a man named Jim Trick. With the ability to draw an audience into his world, Jim is a brilliant communicator who is definitely worth the effort to go see.” – Grandfather Rock from WCWP 88.1 FM Brooklyn
  3. I know what it’s like to swim frantically across the alligator riddled Belize river and how it feels to share a stage with Katy Perry. One of those experiences was terrifying. The other one involved alligators.
  4. I am a frequent guest lecturer at Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music.
  5. “Listening to Jim Trick’s songs and voice are like getting a hug from an old friend. A friend that knows you well. His music lets me take off my armor and feel welcomed into a world where I know I’m understood, not alone, and truly invited into. Wonderful stuff.” – Mary Lou Lord

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I was once 430 lbs, wearing size 66 pants. Yes, they make ’em that big.
  2. I work as an ICF certified life and professional coach.
  3. I have witnessed abject poverty, first hand, in a Central American refugee village.
  4. I write a blog that is followed by thousands of people in over twenty countries.
  5. I am an avid fly fisherman and fly-tier.

Home Base: Nashville, TN

First Concert: Alabama

Band that makes me feel like a fan: The Eagles

Book(s) that’s changed my life: What Color Is Your Parachute

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I’ve co-written six #1 songs.
  2. I have had over 100 songs recorded.
  3. I once knocked Psy out of #1 in South Korea with my song “Bounce.”
  4. I wrote Joe Cocker’s last #1 song.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I was a red belt in Taekwondo.
  2. I once found a 1st century Roman coin while metal detecting.
  3. I climbed the highest mountain in Colorado.
  4. I’m a top level Tripadvisor contributor.

Home Base: Simsbury, CT

First Concert: Bryan Adams

Band that makes me feel like a fan: Jason Isbell

Book(s) that’s changed my life: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, Rising Strong by Brene Brown

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I am a multi-instrumentalist who has toured with musicians such as Jason Mraz, Tristan Prettyman, Zac Brown, Ed Kowalczyk, Ed Roland, Kevin Griffin, and Emerson Hart.
  2. I am a speaker for NAMM (National Association Music Merchants).
  3. I invented a product called Potz in collaboration with Latin Percussion.
  4. I have an online store called BoomBoom Percussion.
  5. I am the brand manager and communications director for The Blue Devils and System Blue.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I know how to do a tax return.
  2. I would rather be on the golf course than any place in the world.
  3. I am writing a book.
  4. My dog is named Blanche after the character from “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

Home Base: Atlanta, GA

First Concert: Phil Driscoll

Band that makes me feel like a fan: NEEDTOBREATHE

Book(s) that’s changed my life: The Goal, The 4 Disciplines of Execution, Made to Stick, Switch, The Power of Now, A New Earth, Autobiography of a Yogi, The Master Key System, The Science of Getting Rich

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I performed in nine countries as front-man for the independent rock band State of Man.
  2. I wrote and recorded several albums, including a top 10 best selling Billboard chart hit single.
  3. I launched an indie label, PolyPlat Records, and grew from representing one artist to over 400 independent touring artists.
  4. I founded indiehitmaker.com and launched the first Soundscan CD sales reporting service for indie artists.
  5. I am a published author in the best selling series Adventures In Manifesting: Love and Oneness, which includes thought leaders such as Mariane Williamson, Lisa McCourt, and Danielle Laporte.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I attended the United States Military Academy out of high school after receiving nominations to it as well as the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
  2. I left college my senior year to pursue music and eventually landed an investor in my own indie label (PolyPlat Records) for nearly half a million dollars.
  3. I am a certified energy healer.
  4. I am an ordained minister.
  5. I am a big anime (martial arts/sci-fi/fantasy) fan.

Home Base: Atlanta via Hamilton, Ontario

First Concert: The Who

Band that makes me feel like a fan: U2

Book(s) that’s changed my life: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I joined the ranks of history when I marched the Royal family through the Brandenburg Gate as a soldier/drummer in 1991, ending the Peace Keeping mission in Berlin.
  2. The first time I was lucky enough to be featured in Rolling Stone was in 1997 as a part of the Lilith Fair tour.
  3. I performed the roll of ‘Roger Davis’ in RENT for 550 performances from Sept 01-May 03 across the US.
  4. I had the pleasure and privilege of working for one of the worlds most important music producers: Daniel Lanois (U2, Peter Gabriel, Dylan…)

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I have never had a formal music education or vocal lesson.
  2. I’m a proud Canadian that married the most beautiful girl in the world.  
  3. I, too, struggle with self-doubt on a daily basis. I accept it in the name of being better tomorrow.  
  4. Dogs complete me.  

Home Base: Sandwich, MA

First Concert: Switchfoot

Band that makes me feel like a fan: Blink 182

Book(s) that’s changed my life: The Power of One

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I am the lead singer/songwriter for the band Phone Calls From Home.
  2. I sold 50,000 records and toured 47 states over a 4-year period.
  3. I recently started the Christian rock band Real Hope.
  4. I published a nonfiction book in 2017 titled College On Sale.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I received both a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and an MBA by taking online classes from my van while on tour over a 4-year period.
  2. I can fluently play the guitar, bass, drums, and piano, and I also sing. When writing songs, I often play every instrument in the recording process.
  3. Being a life-long learner, I have already held many job positions in my 20’s that have sparked interest in me. In the last 5 years, I have been a full time musician, a music teacher, a church worship director, a financial researching associate, a small-town business owner on Cape Cod, a real estate agent, an insurance agent, and (of course) a corporate trainer.
  4. I am an avid surfer and soccer player.
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Home Base: Hartford, CT

First Concert: Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies

Band that makes me feel like a fan : Toad the Wet Sprocket

Book(s) that’s changed my life: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I built and grew a hospital-solution start-up into a company with over 6000 worldwide accounts.
  2. I am a business and scheduling consultant for Yale University.
  3. I performed as a sideman on various instruments for two national touring acts.
  4. I function as tour manager for several national and international touring acts.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I once rode in the trunk of a Bentley to a David Bowie concert in Hong Kong.
  2. I ran the Boston Marathon.
  3. I drive a 1966 Chevy C-10 pickup truck.
  4. The oboe was my first instrument.

 

Home Base: Atlanta, GA

First Concert: Jackson 5

Band that makes me feel like a fan: Morris Day & The Time

Book that changed my life: The Power Of Now

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I am a showbiz veteran with 30 years in entertainment.
  2. I am a prolific songwriter with about 100 songs placed on film/tv.
  3. I landed numerous national ad campaigns.
  4. I manage a successful stand-up comedian.
  5. I create jingles for companies all over the world.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I am hooked on “The Walking Dead.”
  2. I grew up working for the family newspaper.
  3. I know how to juggle.
  4. I cook a mean pot of gumbo.

Home Base: Fairfield, CT

First Concert: Meatloaf

Band that makes me feel like a fan: Coldplay

Book(s) that’s changed my life: A New Earth

What my publicist will tell you:

  1. I co-wrote the song “Nothing More,” the featured closing song to the Sochi Olympic Games, countless charities, school organizations, and TOMS Shoes.
  2. I wrote the independant song of the year in 2004.
  3. I wrote the highest rated song in history on the Platinum Blue Hit Screening Software.
  4. I am a co-founder of The Alternate Routes, and I toured with Johnny Lang, Ingrid Michaelson, Live, OAR, Sister Hazel, Josh Ritter, Brandi Carlisle, NEEDTOBREATHE,  and Collective Soul.
  5. I played just under 2000 shows in a 10-year period from 2003-2013.

Things that might surprise you:

  1. I was Class President in 8th-12th grades.
  2. I was the highest ranked high school quarterback in the 1999 season. I only lost the State Championship and State Semi-final as a starter.
  3. I graduated college with a double major in 3 years.
  4. I’m a student of the kitchen and cooking is one of my most favorite hobbies.
  5. The thing I am most proud of is that I was voted the nicest person in my graduating class of 380 in high school.

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