Live with Passion – a popular phrase that has been immortalized by Tony Robbins. I have met Tony, and I completely agree with him (interesting sidebar: Tony is 6 days younger than I am). In fact, his coaching has really helped shape me over the years. I believe in living with passion and doing what you love.
So what do I love? Creating products and building brands. I am an active software product manager, constantly dreaming up products and designing new features that maximize engagement. I am a strong believer in the power of learning and the power of games. Curiosity and fun are great ways to help us tap into our humanity in positive ways.
I love words – and to go with that is my passion for Scrabble. I am an active player – you can find me on Facebook and challenge me to a game (but be careful, I am pretty good)! Being such an active Scrabble player, I am designing a game to help Scrabble players get better. What is the ‘trick’ to becoming a great Scrabble player? That 50 point bonus, the ‘bingo’ – which you get from using all your letters. Which means, knowing how to find and place 7 letter, and often 8 letter (and sometimes larger) words becomes key. My latest product is Bingo Bruiser.
I love learning and helping others – explaining my passion for mentoring. I am focused on helping new entrepreneurs – you can learn more by visiting The Magic String Company. As an example of what is possible, I have mentored one client who has taken his business from zero to over 700,000 daily e-mail subscribers in under 2 years! One of the important things when creating and building companies is to understand yourself. I am a part-time workshop leader on personal branding – you can learn more by visiting Career Coaching Workshop.
Following on this theme of mentoring new entrepreneurs, a key component of which is forming the initial team, which represents the classical High Performance Team, HPTware is all about designing high performance teams. This business productivity app is designed to both learn about yourself and interact with and learn about others along the way to forming an optimal, high performance team. The product is called HPTware.
I have also done work in educational software, specifically focused on the younger market. Past educational games include: