UNEXECUTIVE

Unconventional coaching for extraordinary people

Hi I’m Toku,

What you do matters, more than you realize. 

What you do doesn’t just impact you or your future legacy, it ripples across all of your closest relationships, shifts the success of your business, and changes how people you don’t even know relate to the world. 

And yet we pay far too little attention to our actions and the place they arise from. 

Living as a Zen monk for over two years taught me to carefully watch the mind, to see the seeds of thinking, and how those seeds slowly blossom into the fruits of speaking and doing. 

Life is a tremendous gift that vanishes in an instant. 

I write poetry, essays on leadership,  and guides that help people use that gift and most importantly experience it.

If that feels like you, stick around. I’d love to spend some life with you.

Love,
Toku

My writing and ideas have been featured on:

"Toku is an amazing coach. He's been like this insightful, compassionate friend who challenges me and encourages me all at the same time.

Every time we talk he really listens, understands my problems, and helps me find solutions that work.

He's helped me get really clear on where I need to go next in my business and he's helped me learn how to be a better man for my family as well as for my readers."

- Leo Babauta, Best Selling Author, Thought Leader, and Creator of Zen Habits*

*A Time Magazine Top 25 Blog

Latest Post

Stop Being A Simple Leader

In some ways, leadership is incredibly simple. Leadership is about guiding the future by using the tools of your past.

You decide what matters from a place deeper than your ego. Figure out how to make an impact on it. Use your wits, experience, and relationships to make that impact in a sensible and sustainable way. And then continue to develop yourself so you can lead more people and more projects with more skill and less effort.

And yet the true nuance of leadership is unsimple because it rests on who you’re being as a leader. It’s not some performance of the seven habits of highly effective people or the execution of a perfect morning routine and optimized schedule.

We all admire people with this kind of discipline, but the true leadership qualities we crave are so much deeper than that.

Empathy
Wisdom
Presence
Responsibility
Depth
Power

To be a leader is to inject leadership into your marrow. To stand for your leadership in the midst of your own terrible failure. To allow your heart to be shattered while holding to your belief in the possibility of people.

It goes beyond managing KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) and quarterly goals. It’s about managing your own heart, the way you breathe in times of crisis, and how big you can expand your awareness.

It’s the reason so many great leaders were also highly spiritual. Because leadership demands more than just the tools and techniques.

It’s what makes leadership unsimple, but also powerful.

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