About Me

Kurt helps entrepreneurs discover courage for their calling.

With twenty years' experience in forty nations, Kurt draws from a wealth of firsthand accounts to inspire and instruct through his Courage for Your Calling® framework.

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 poetic literature. 

Kurt and his wife Karen have been married since 1993 and raised their family in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, where they founded a community development agency. They live in the emirate of Sharjah, near Dubai.

Kurt’s roots include the Texas Gulf Coast, the Rio Grande Valley, the Heart of Texas, and New England.

Kurt writes in the prophetic and poetic traditions, inspired by the wonder of creation and the cultures of the nations. Guiding sources for his works 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. The key to the future always begins with a memory, and our calling comes from the original self the Creator had in mind when He made us.  

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