Erik, an experienced business executive and independent consultant, is an active speaker, trainer, coach and consultant. With more than two decades of experience in financial services and management consulting, he provides leadership coaching, strategy and organizational development consulting services. He launched Endorphin Advisors in 2005 and regularly leads workshops on leadership and marketing topics in the "Good Players Play Hurt" business workshop series.
Erik began his career in financial services at Guy Carpenter / Marsh & McLennan, as a reinsurance intermediary in their New York, London and Philadelphia offices.
During graduate school, Erik spearheaded several marketing projects at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
After graduating with an M.B.A., Erik moved to Silicon Valley to experience first-hand the dot-com boom (and bust). At InsWeb.com, he directed a marketing program for a cutting-edge online marketplace.
Subsequently, Erik joined the consulting and risk management firm, Towers Perrin, in San Francisco.
From June 2007 to July 2009, Erik was Co-Founder and President of Your Marketing Lab Inc., a resource of marketing expertise and services for business owners and entrepreneurs.
Erik has a B.A. in English from St. Lawrence University and an M.B.A. from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has studied French at the University of Grenoble (France), coaching skills at the Coaches Training Institute (San Rafael, CA), and negotiation skills at the American Management Association (San Francisco, CA).
