Hi everybody!

I got a kick out of telling you all about bringing Noah on to the team, and now I’d like you to hear from the man himself.

– John

Make no mistake: he is every bit as friendly as he looks in this photo.

Hello CA Family! I’m Noah, and it is a huge blessing to be here! My story of arriving at CA is one that I would have never imagined. It all started with a book.

During the winter break of my Sophomore year of college, I went to a local book store and walked down the non-fiction aisle. That day I discovered the self-help genre, and I was instantly obsessed with the idea of learning from others’ wisdom and life lessons. I clearly saw how these authors were living life very differently than anyone I had encountered, and that made me want to share what I was learning with the world.

By the middle of my junior year of college, I was promoting myself as a coach. I had no idea what I was doing, but I believed that helping others apply what I was learning would also help me integrate it more deeply. At the same time, I was also interning as an engineer.

Truthfully, I wanted to change my major to psychology. I decided that I was too close to graduation to make a change, so I completed my engineering degree. Two weeks after graduation, I started working as an engineer. Months later, I bought a house and got married. At this point, the idea of coaching was completely out of my mind.

As an engineer, I was in charge of rolling out a Workforce Management software system to 130+ locations during the middle of Covid. I was overwhelmed with my job, and shaken to my core by the loss of several family members. To help me through this season, I asked my new friend from church, David Limiero, to be my mentor. David’s current position was leading a software support team, and he was also coaching. The company he was coaching for used CoachAccountable. That is how I was introduced to this amazing platform.

I later decided to receive some coach training myself. I knew that my intentions in college were pure, but at the end of the day, I wanted to help people with real tools and strategies. Right after I finished coach training, David gave me the opportunity to blend my experience of rolling out software platforms and my coach training to help several CA users get up and running with their own accounts.

When John posted the role for my position, I was nervous to apply. I have always worked as an engineer, and my last company had 300,000+ employees. As I considered the potential impact on my wife and two daughters, it was not easy to  leave a very stable but life-draining career for a new opportunity in the field of my “hobby.” Thankfully, as I learned more about how John has built the CA culture and business model, I had a sense of peace and excitement about joining the team.

Now, I couldn’t be more grateful to be here! The vast majority of this work is in my Desire Zone¹, and the work couldn’t be more meaningful to me. Helping coaches help their clients live better lives; it doesn’t get more value-driven than that for me.

I look forward to helping each of you however I can, and if you are ever traveling through East Tennessee, send me an email. I would love to connect with you over a cup of coffee.