Meet MCK
Hey there, I'm MCK.
And I’d like to help you to achieve a breakthrough in a professional or personal relationship.
That might look like short-term relief with a Bounce Conversation OR building break through habits via the Relationship Breakthrough Bootcamp.
You’ll see a bit more of my professional side below, but what you won’t find there is how much I love hosting a good dinner party, great events, urban biking, Bic pens, and a little stretching [or yoga] to start my day.
I hope we’ll have the chance to connect 🙂
My Background
While I’ve spent my career as an entrepreneur or working with tiny giants, I’ve also worked alongside names you might recognize like Microsoft, Nokia, Société Générale, Honeywell, Greenpeace, and Guinness World Records.
And have developed experiential education programming for Executive Masters students at the Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources.
I was born and raised in Upstate NY, studied International Relations (and “played” track) at Brown University, lived in China (Beijing and Yunnan Province) for 10+ years, and now spend the bulk of my time in NYC.
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- Oh, you know, just years of failures in my everyday conversations in my work life, in my personal life, plus and a few catastrophic relationships along the way.
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- Why my first company crashed and burned (hint: my co-founder and I did not speak the same language)
- How to NOT navigate a sticky job situation when you work for your friends and when expectations don’t match the reality
- The worst communication strategy in a romantic relationship (or any relationship. ever.) “she will change and it will all be okay”
These days it’s a lot easier to make light of my relationship and communication “catastrophes,” but jokes aside, here are three important beliefs I have:
- I believe our relationships make or break our lives.
- I believe the way we communicate has a MASSIVE influence on the quality of our relationships.
- I believe that QuestionS Are The Answer [what ‘QSATA’ means]
And it was during the process of healing from the romantic relationship I mentioned above [sooo much writing and reflection] when I started an experiment to help me connect with others while managing my social anxiety.
While healing from a significant romantic relationship I started an experiment to help me connect with others while managing my social anxiety.
I desperately wanted to avoid the ‘What do you do, MCK?’ question.
So when people asked, I told them, “I do this ‘conversation experiment,’ do you want to try?”
I’d be a great listener and ask them questions for 10 minutes. We could see how far we’d get.
It was an amazing way to avoid telling people that I had been recently dumped, was depressed, and didn’t have a job.
I also helped these people I was meeting to find answers with the biggest questions on their mind [and often to feel lighter and less stuck].
Turns out, being a great listener and asking someone else some good questions helped me to feel lighter, less stuck, and find my answers too.
All the experimenting also got me to realize how important the way we communicate is in our relationships.
And I started to wonder… how could I consolidate learnings from my relationship and communication failures and hundreds of these experimental conversations to make this process easier for others?
Practical Approach,
Lasting Results
I started with the belief that if we’re better communicators, we’re clearer, more confident, make better decisions, and have better connection and relationships.
I.e. we live better lives.
So I’ve created things like the Bounce Conversation Framework, MasterCom, The Bounce Exchange (TBX), and the Relationship Breakthrough Bootcamp as practical approaches to equip others with the tools to be better communicators and to improve their relationships…
- that aligns with daily life and doesn’t require time off / away
- where people could start to see immediate results and
- would set them up for continued growth after our time together
After helping 100+ people from 17 different countries… the rest is in the present 
So as we come to the end of this page, here's the bottom line...
I’d like to help you hear things you may not have heard before, see things you haven’t seen on your own, and say things you haven’t been able to say (or ask) before.
And to help you get a breakthrough that would make a BIG difference.
Where would a breakthrough make the biggest difference in your life right now?
Achieve a Relationship Breakthrough in 6 weeks ⚡
Why "Relationship" and "Communication"
Breakthroughs?
- Why my first company crashed and burned (hint: my co-founder and I did not speak the same language)
- How to NOT navigate a sticky job situation when you work for your friends and when expectations don’t match the reality
- The worst communication strategy in a romantic relationship (or any relationship. ever.) “she will change and it will all be okay”
Why QSATA?
Jokes aside, here are three important beliefs I have:
- I believe our relationships make or break our lives.
- I believe the way we communicate has a MASSIVE influence on the quality of our relationships.
- I believe that QuestionS Are The Answer [what ‘QSATA’ means]
And it was during the process of healing from the romantic relationship I mentioned above [sooo much writing and reflection] when I started an experiment to help me connect with others while managing my social anxiety.
QSATA's Origins
After that last lesson (my failed romantic relationship… it was a doozy), I started an experiment that evolved into the Bounce Conversation Framework. A questions-first process that helped me find my answers, by asking others about their top-of-mind challenges/situations.
And all the experimenting got me to realize how important the way we communicate is to our relationships with others (and ourselves).
If we’re better communicators, we live better lives.
So I created MasterCom as a practical approach to equip others with the tools to be better communicators and to improve their relationships…
- that didn’t require time off / away
- where they could start to see immediate results and
- would set them up for continued growth after our time together.
And that’s the short version of how this all started.
Here’s how I can help…
Option 1: Bounce
Can I help you think better about a relationship, a situation, or decision that matters to you?
You'll be surprised how far we can get in 20 minutes!
Option 2: Tune-Up
Can I help you identify the one thing to improve your most important relationship(s)?
3 exercises + a free 1-on-1 conversation with me
Option 3: MasterCom
Can I help you make a massive difference in your relationships in one month?
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