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High-achieving leaders don’t hire a coach because they’re struggling. They hire a coach because they’re ready to operate at a higher level, as leaders, as professionals, and as humans.

You have the accomplishments, the title, the experience. But you know you’re capable of more:
• more clarity in how you think and decide
• more confidence in who you are and how you lead
• more control over your time, energy, and direction
• more consistency, presence, and stability
• more leadership from the inside out

You’re not looking for generic leadership development. You’re looking to become the most important leader in your own life, to lead yourself with the clarity, confidence, and control required to operate at your highest level.

That’s the real work.

I help CEOs, founders, and senior leaders become the most important leader in their life, so they can lead themselves with clarity, confidence, and control, and ultimately become Fearless Leaders in their work and life. And once they do, they’re fully equipped to lead others even more effectively.

My coaching blends:
• executive leadership development
• identity and behavior transformation
• self-leadership psychology
• strategic decision-making and direction

It’s deep work delivered in a grounded, practical, leadership-ready way. This is not “personal development.” It’s the leadership work most leaders skip, and the work that changes everything.

Who I Work With

I’ve coached 500+ leaders from Amazon, Google, DoorDash, Mayo Clinic, the CDC, and high-growth organizations across tech, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, government, and private equity.

Leaders partner with me when they’re ready to:
• lead themselves with more intention and discipline
• elevate their identity, presence, and leadership impact
• make clearer, faster decisions
• build unshakeable confidence
• take control of their direction and personal leadership
• step into the bolder, more powerful version of themselves

Core Offers

Fearless Leader: 12-Month Executive Coaching Partnership
For leaders ready to step into their internal authority, elevate how they lead themselves, and operate with clarity, confidence, and control.

Executive Career Coaching & Job Guarantee
A proven, structured path for leaders navigating major career decisions and transitions. 

If you’re ready to become the most important leader in your own life — and lead fearlessly — let’s connect.

Dr. Benjamin Ritter

Project Management Advisors, Inc.

National sector leader of newly created Real Estate Advisory Services group and co-lead fast growing Texas regional office of a venerable, well-regarded national owners’ representation firm based in Chicago.  Responsible for scaling up the company both regionally and nationally through the generation of new multifamily, mixed-use, healthcare and entertainment development and construction projects, as well as other wide ranging, complex commercial ground-up opportunities.

Vice President Advisory Services

Ag3 Advisory

Real estate transaction management, business advisory, brokerage and consulting company focused on discrete, out-sourced assignments that tie directly to the creation of enterprise value and strategic initiatives.  Design and execute corporate roll-out programs, locate investment and development opportunities for various real estate concerns on a nationwide basis and assist in the sourcing of equity.  Offer real estate consulting and brokerage services on an as needed basis.

Managing Principal

Flix Entertainment | Flix Brewhouse | Cinema Breweries

Oversaw all real estate functions of Flix Entertainment LLC, including, but not limited to, the nationwide expansion of a cinema/eatery/micro-brewery concept called Flix Brewhouse. Handled all strategy development, site selection, deal evaluation and structuring, as well as investor matters/fund raising and development-related concerns.  Functioned as the "Guardian of the Brand".  Served as General Counsel on an "as needed" basis.  

Highlights include:

>Designed and preside over nationwide roll out of the Flix Brewhouse concept generating well over 10x  in enterprise value.  Includes site selection, complete deal negotiation and full development and construction responsibilities.

>Re-cast and polished up the Flix Brewhouse brand so that it could be scaled-up in connection with the company's national roll out.

>Instrumental in raising the equity funding required to fuel national expansion.

>Guided the development of a revolutionary new prototype building to be utilized for all future Flix Brewhouse expansion.

Chief Development Officer/SVP Real Estate & Brand Development

XCELhc

Chief operating officer and general counsel, responsible for day-to-day affairs, all legal matters and designing and implementing an aggressive business plan to refine ops, rebuild sales team, restructure warehouse logistics and evaluate real estate opportunities associated with corporate growth.  Concluded with successful exit and sale to major market operator as part of a sector-focused consolidation initiative.

COO/General Counsel

Next Realty

Managed commercial real estate brokerage group with a primary focus on acquisitions for investors and developers.  Also functioned as a principal while looking for shopping center assets for Next Realty, LLC to acquire through its fund.

Equitable Property Corporation

Generated, qualified and structured brownfield development opportunities for partnership. Sourced and evaluated property opportunities nationwide.

Associate Director of Acquisitions

Pedersen & Houpt

Senior Associate

Blatt, Hammesfar & Eaton

Environmental Coverage Litigation Associate

Associate Attorney

Ace Hardware Corporation

Staff regulatory and compliance attorney focused on environmental and transactional matters.

Attorney

I am a serial deal facilitator, unrelentingly focused on the intersection of location, brand and top line potential.  Although I practiced environmental and transactional law for quite a few years to start my career, the allure of bringing people, ideas, concepts and opportunities together for a living was far too compelling.  I left a promising legal career behind to become what I like to call a "professional purveyor of opportunity."  It just fits.

I have built a successful career effectively connecting the dots as a principal, managing broker, operator and investor between real estate/business wants and needs, people and concepts -- and delivering results at the highest possible level both in a professional and executive capacity. I am passionate about truly transcendent/resonant consumer brands and consumer-facing real estate concepts, and have amassed significant experience in site selection, retail development, residential, mixed-use and adaptive reuse development, land acquisitions, asset “up-cycling" and general business deal-making and operations as a principal and on behalf of select brands and developers.  One of my true professional passions is scaling up a business that requires real estate to grow. I also maintain a high level of Spanish language proficiency -- just in case. 

In presiding over the rollout of concepts like the now well-established Flix Brewhouse brand, I have been afforded the opportunity to coalesce virtually all of my professional strengths and passions into a singularly satisfying bundle.  I’ve also been able to draw on various “soft skill” attributes cultivated through my rather diverse background to offer more in the workplace than the sum of my professional parts might suggest.  Empathy, humility, compassion, ceaseless curiosity and approachability (among others) are a big part of my DNA and I’ve received a nice return on time invested in colleagues, teammates, and direct reports as a result. 

When I’m not on the clock, I spend time thinking about real estate and business ideas, branding brainstorms, gardening, figuring out ways to help those who are less fortunate, hiking and generally enjoying as much time as I can exploring my adopted home town, Austin, TX with my family.

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