“There is a moment many of us arrive at, often in the middle of success, when the map we have been following stops making sense. Your life looks right from the outside... but something is missing.”
About Brooks
I built Soulful Impact because I needed it myself.
I grew up in a family with a long history of success: conservation pioneers, institutional leaders, best-selling authors, world-changing entrepreneurs. My ancestors have held wealth and power for generations. I've carried that weight my whole life.
For years, I pushed hard to measure up. Princeton. Deloitte. Stanford. Silicon Valley startup. I checked every box. I thought outward achievement would be the path to inner fulfillment. But no level of success, impact, or prestige — even in areas aligned with my passions and values — could quench the longing of my heart.
In 2014, on a vision quest in the Utah desert, I finally broke through. Four days alone with no food and no distractions. Only a prayer to discover who I really am and what I’m here to do.
The light I saw in that canyon helped me remember a deeper truth.
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I grew up in Colorado, in the mountains, in a family that played piano together and told stories and had no TV. I learned early that the unseen world — of nature, of narrative, of inner knowing — was more real than most people admitted.
Following my initiation in the desert, I threw myself into the deep ecology of soul work and the lifelong craft of transformational leadership. I began my coaching journey as a facilitator with Leaders In Tech, a nonprofit holding some of the most influential names in Silicon Valley. I guided leadership development expeditions with NOLS, the global leader in outdoor education. I facilitated Interpersonal Dynamics at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the iconic course known to have changed lives for over 45 years.
I have trained with some of the best coaches and guides in the world, including Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Joe Hudson, and Bill Plotkin. I have ventured into deep explorations of the edges of consciousness and human understanding, studying and practicing with various wisdom traditions, nature-based lineages, meditation teachers, and psychedelic medicine practitioners. I am licensed as a Natural Medicine Facilitator here in Colorado, offering legal psilocybin-based work.
Over more than a decade, I have coached hundreds of leaders, including top-tier founders, investors, and CEOs of companies with market values reaching into the hundreds of millions. I have learned to guide others into the landscapes, literal and interior, where transformation becomes unavoidable.
Today, I work at the intersection I was born into: material mastery and soulful presence. Executive intelligence and inner truth. The ambition to change the world and the willingness to be changed by it first.
I live in Carbondale, Colorado with my wife Ashley and our two young daughters. I am connected to the land, to my community, to the lineages I carry, and to the people I accompany across the threshold.
My invitation to you is the one I wish someone had extended to me:
There is a version of your leadership that is both visionary and fully alive. The world wants it now. Let's build it together.
“The magic of Brooks is he has a CEO’s brain and a rabbi’s soul.”
— Joe Greenstein, Co-Founder @ Leaders In Tech, previously Co-Founder & CEO @ Flixter & RottenTomatoes (acq. by Warner Bros)
What is Soulful Impact?
Soulful Impact is more than a business. It’s an idea — and, aspirationally — a movement.
Our world needs leaders to evolve. The current paradigm from which we are creating our future isn’t just falling short — it’s directing us over a cliff.
I believe the primary reason for this is that we have forgotten what it means to be fully human.
In that forgetting, our egos are in the driver’s seat. They may be trying their best, but they simply aren’t equipped to successfully navigate the challenges of The Great Turning.
Before we can build the future we really want, we need to remember who we really are. We need to approach and define the success and impact we pursue from the part of ourselves that remembers a deeper truth.
We need to lead from soul.
Ways to Engage
Executive Coaching
Deep, custom, ongoing support for leaders who are ready to evolve.
The Opening Arc: 4 months of deep work with Brooks.
The Deep Arc: One year transformational program + custom retreat.
Personalized Retreats: Take the work to the next level.
Quests & Retreats
Guided transformational experiences in the Colorado high country.
Wilderness quests. Sound ceremony. Legal psychedelic journey work.
Currently offering bespoke, custom experiences for individuals and groups.
“My work with Soulful Impact was undeniably LIFE-CHANGING. I loved the weaving together of various concepts, disciplines and tools. It felt like an honoring of the wisdom and ways of my ancestors, which led to deep resonance and remembering of who I am. I came home to myself more fully and deeply than I ever thought possible. ”
— Natalie Domond, Leadership Coach
“I came to Brooks at a pivotal moment. He has a rare ability to see through the noise and bring you back to what's true. Over six months, I changed more than I had in years. I found a steadier kind of joy.”
— Will Edwards, Founder & Co-Owner @ Seed Catering
“Find a way to work with Brooks.
His coaching style is a refreshing cocktail of conscious leadership, strategic problem solving, and spiritual exploration. You'll walk away a better, more centered, and effective leader. Work will feel more playful and light. Moments of suspicion and tension with colleagues will slowly shift towards spaciousness and curiosity. But the best part about working with Brooks? The work will transcend work. If you're open to his approach and showing up, you'll walk away a happier, more full-bodied version of yourself.”
— Connor Diemand-Yauman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Merit America