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More about Thom

In 1997, I heard – and began to answer – a profound calling to deeply embrace the concepts of Ecology (Life), Compassion (Love), and Oneness (Interconnectedness).

Given my upbringing in- and leadership within a family-owned architectural precast concrete company, my formal education in building design and construction management, and my explorations into what seemed to me the magical and vital expanse of ecological design (including co-founding a consensus-based natural building company), the initial iteration of the answer to my calling took the form of an ecological interior design firm.

That pioneering company, AlterECO,inc, is still thriving and still features innovative, artfully-designed, finely-crafted modern bamboo cabinetry as the foundational system for our approach to ecological design alternatives. “Ecology” informs the deeply respectful way we design and build vibrant, healthy, meaningful spaces for our customers’ homes; “Compassion” is at the core of our customer care relationship; and “Oneness” is the constant reminder that all we are and all we do are intimately intertwined with everyone and everything else.

While still creating beautiful, harmonious spaces in customers’ homes, the work of AlterECO has now expanded to align with the evolution of the understanding of my Why. Profoundly painful failures in my personal and professional endeavors as well as deliciously auspicious awakenings have led me to a new understanding of the trajectory of my life and work. Key to this seemingly glacial shift were introductions to the game-changing work of Pachamama Alliance, which affirmed, slowly clarified, and ultimately transformed the work I am here to embody – “the walk” I am here to undertake in this life.

I became a dedicated volunteer and community leader for Pachamama Alliance and now co-lead the organization’s Business Engagement Initiative, introducing into companies large and small the vital mission of “bringing forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.” I’d be delighted to introduce you and your organization to AWAKENER, our transformational course for business, and I incorporate the program into the Walk Your Why, Become a Changemaker coaching program.

Concurrently, I was called to dive headlong into the rapidly advancing world of personal development (what I call “why-inspired life design”), leading me to deep study under Eben Pagan, Bill Baren, Brendon Burchard, Josh Turner, Christian Mickelsen, Ryan Eliason, and – most intensively (since 2014), Derek Rydall – whose “Emergence” work deeply resonated and under whose personal tutelage I became one of his select group of Master Coaches. And, of course, Pachamama Alliance co-founder, mentor, and friend, Lynne Twist, continues to play a grounding, liberating, heart-guiding role. Ahhh, the emergence of the Why-driven life I love!

So, naturally, I am now an ECO Interior(s) Designer – working in the independent yet synergistic realms of the home we each live in and the home that lives within each of us – inspiring and guiding myself and fellow visionary creatives to design the thriving, just, regenerative lives that empower us – individually and collectively – to walk our why, becoming changemakers, who nurture our world, by nourishing ourselves.

Click here for the Spiritual Entrepreneur Podcast interview by Devi Adea.