Derek is the President and Founder of EMBARK, an organization committed to developing highly effective leaders. Derek is also the Founder of Guywire Ministry

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Derek is an ICF Credentialed coach, Master Certified Advisor in Leadership Development with LionsLead, Certified Trainer in Transformational Leadership, he is a public speaker  and serves on the National Advisory Council for A Christian Ministry in the National Parks and as an Advisor for G1 Outdoors.

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Through his leadership, coaching and consulting experience he has worked with leaders in various industries including Aerospace, Communications, Defense, Medical, Food Safety, Plastic Packaging, Microelectronic, Solar and Syntactic Materials.

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Derek is passionate about mountain top experiences. As part of the Guywire journey he leads with other men, an outdoor leadership and spiritual development experience known as EPIC HIKE. These trips include trekking excursions across the country to weekend leadership schools. 
 

The picture above was taken at 12,100' on top of the Continental Divide.