Tony is a certified professional coach and coach trainer, active in the coaching field since 1999. He currently directs the Leadership MetaFormation Institute (www.Meta-Formation.com) which trains leaders to live and lead from the heart.

Tony is the author of eleven books, a variety of training CDs and DVDs, and a suite of open source coach training courses. He runs Coach22.com, an on-line coaching bookstore, and is the founder of the Christian Coaching Center (www.christiancoachingcenter.org), a consortium of 25 authors who provide free information on coaching through hundreds of articles and posts. TheCallingJourney.com is a free calling timeline generator based on his leadership research as found in the book, The Calling Journey. And at www.HeavensPerspective.com you can sign up to have part of your life story rewritten from heaven's point of view.

Tony has founded or co-founded several training organizations, including three coach training schools and an NGO has provided roughly 30,000 hours of coaching to leaders in emerging nations. His Open Source coach training materials make advanced coaching skills training accessible to ministries, non-profits and overseas endeavors.

In his coaching practice, Tony helps leaders encounter God in difficult circumstances, transitions or wilderness times, because anything that happens to you can be leveraged for good if you meet God in the midst of it. He specializes in encounter coaching, a technique of asking Jesus questions that fosters a dialog between Jesus and the coachee.

As a trainer, Tony focuses on conveying practical tools and techniques that produce transformation (deep, lasting, significant change), using a highly-interactive, adult learning approach.

Tony enjoys producing Frank Lloyd Wright-style leaded glass (an interest from his days as a furniture designer), reading, star-gazing, working outdoors and laughter. He lives in beautiful Redding, CA with his wife and a constantly breaking sprinkler system.