About Me
Kurt helps those who built someone else’s dream finally build their own. With twenty years' experience in forty nations, he draws from a wealth of firsthand accounts as an author, speaker, and personal development coach.
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Enjoy this site, kurtmahler.com, where you’ll find his writings on the Ancient Faith, original poetry, and a portal to book him as a keynote speaker—offering stirring stories and practical tools drawn from a life lived across many cultures. Kurt works with a small number of coaching clients by invitation.
Kurt is a sought-after speaker on five continents and a well-respected international life coach, serving in places as challenging as Cuba, Persia, and North Korea. He has written hundreds of articles and published multiple books, including award-winning poetry.
He and his wife Karen have been married since 1993 and raised their family in Afghanistan, where they founded a community development agency. They are Americans living in the Emirates with ties to the Gulf Coast, the Rio Grande Valley, Central Texas, Louisiana, and New England.
He writes in the poetic tradition, inspired by the wonder of creation, the mysteries of the Ancient Faith, and the drama of the nations. Guiding sources for his work include the Hebrew prophets, the Desert Fathers, Dante, Milton, George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, and Tolkien.
Why? Because thought leaders go back to the beginning to find the way forward.