Serving as a minister for about 36 years, served as Fire, Jail and Disaster Response Chaplain about 27 years,
Founded and managed a 24 hour crisis hot-line in inner city Detroit for over 3 years,
Served for 2 1/2 years as Assistant Staff Chaplain at Cook County Jail in Chicago,
Trained in several levels of Critical Incident Stress Management disaster mental health response and as an Internationally Approved Instructor, too.
Toured nationally for 12 years doing motivation and insprirational events, educational school shows and training seminars and conventions where I served at a speaker/instructor. Known for a quick wit, unconventional ways to get and keep the attention of an audience through creative performance and motivational models.
Team Leader for Disaster Emotional and Spiritual Care Teams (CISM) that are dispatched immediately after an emergency or disaster. Have served in nationally visable responses including wildfires, earthquakes and other major traumatic events providing aid to responders and victims.
My trainings/Certifications include:
Fire fighter 1 & 2
CISM Individual Support
CISM Group
CISM Advanced
CISM Emotional and Spiritual Care
CISM Pastoral Crisis Intervention
Approved Instructor in CISM Individual Support
Approved Instructor in CISM Group
Approved Instructorin CISM Emotional and Spiritual Care
NIMS Trained Trainer 100,200, 300,400 and 700
School Crisis Response to Trauma and Disaster
Grief, Trauma and Loss (advanced class with H. Norman Wright)Talbot University
Neuro Linguistic Programming - Master Practitioner
I had been wandering through my life and had decided that nothing good would ever come my way. I was VERY lonely, and kept being told that my attitude meant that I was not a "good employee" and one boss even said I was self defeating.
My romance life was non existent.
Through Life Coaching with David, I discovered who I really was, and decided what I wanted to do with my life. I chose to start attending a local church down the street for the chance to meet people and try to get past the "arms length" habit I had built.
The coaching worked! I am now active in making friends, my new boss just called me an "asset to the team" last week and gave me a raise. Best of all, I met a wonderful lady at the church and we are engaged! I truly made decisions for my life through the Life Coaching with Coach David that have made my life 200% better than I ever dreamed it could be.
I have benefited tremendously by Coach David's coaching and mentoring skills, both from a spiritual and career development point of view.
With David as your life coach, you get much more than what you expect. David’s wisdom does not just come out of a few books or courses, it is grounded in a lifetime of experience. His intuition and genuine care for people always shows thru, whether he is giving casual advice, counseling for grief or spiritual growth, or helping to sort out life’s little knots and bumps in the road.
What impresses me most is his ability to see beyond the immediate crisis, and his talent to make you see that “there is a way out!” " He can help you lay a course to a better future, as he did for me." I am proud to recommend David.
Coach David has been my personal life coach for about six months, and he has helped me learn to find a wonderful balance between managing my offline business, working on successfully earning money with my online business, while maintaining balance and lots of time with my wife and children. David truly is a “Master” certified life coach.
