About

David loves spending time outdoors, climbing, hiking and kayaking, and brings his unique perspective of personal growth, symbolism, and meaning with him wherever he goes.  Having travelled extensively through China and Taiwan as a mentor and guide, he's able to utilize a broad worldview, rich and overflowing with history, to bring lessons from the masters to life as he teaches, facilitates, and coaches.

He enjoys playing tennis and volleyball, epic board games, and spending time with his family and friends.  Dave is a Qi Gong Master from the Daoist lineage of Mount Qingcheng - The Green Fortress.  He and his wife have 9 children ranging in ages from 4 to 25, have remodeled and flipped 4 homes while living in them, and both share an interest and passion for regenerative and organic farming.

With a special flair for relating to and engaging adolescent and young adult guys, he spent years volunteering to make camping trips, snow-shoe backpacking excursions, and 50 mile kayaking trips memorable and meaningful.  He's planned and led educational and transformational trips through remote parts of China, including abandoned sections of the Great Wall, Zhangjiajie (where they filmed the Avatar movie,) and even camel riding through the Gobi desert of Inner Mongolia.  Dave's life experiences, special interests, developed talents, natural abilities, and enthusiastic passion combine in the work he does of sharing personal growth and empowerment.

His "Official" bio:

David Boyd, devoted father and husband, is an award-winning educator, powerful motivational speaker, and linguist with degrees from Cornell University and UC-Boulder.  An IACC and ICF Certified Life Coach, he offers transformational personal and professional coaching, mentoring, facilitating, curriculum writing, and motivational speaking.  Dave also holds certificates and/or training in Emotional Intelligence, Growth Mindset, Interpersonal Leadership Training, Unconscious Bias, Healthy Relationships, and Advanced Mentoring.

Passionate and energetic, David draws on over a quarter century of expertise and seamlessly blends timeless truths from Chinese classics, such as Sun Tzu’s Art of War and the Classic on the Way and Personal Power (Dao De Jing), with cutting-edge coaching techniques to empower individuals and organizations to gain clarity on their identity, purpose, and how to make their Way through the maze of life.

David's ultimate goals are threefold -- to uncover, recover, and discover:

1. Uncover: To help people uncover their true identity and embrace their place in the universe as unique treasures free from limiting beliefs and labels.

2. Recover: To assist people as they recover their self-worth and ground it in their identity instead of their performance to recover their infinite potential and possibility.

3. Discover: To guide people as they discover their unique gifts and passionately pursue their personal purpose on this planet.