Founder & Coach
Learned in the room, not the lecture hall
Founder · LeVar Coaching · A Division of LeVar Holdings
Here's the part of my story most bios would bury: I never went to college. No degree, no campus pipeline, no network to lean on, no safety net. I started my career in a central office in Washington, D.C., in the middle of the dot-com boom — and made plenty of mistakes there, every one a lesson no classroom could have taught me. Over time I worked my way into mobile switching, then networking, then consulting — always learning in the moment, on live systems, with real money and real people counting on me to get it right.
That was just the systems of the job but there were also politics!
It was an unforgiving classroom, and the best one I could have asked for. I helped build federal infrastructure millions of people rely on, stood up innovation centers for a national wireless carrier against immovable launch dates, and spent more than a decade inside one of the world's largest technology companies, providing solutions customers bet real budgets on. Lessons learned with that much on the line are lessons that hold.
Every transition — technician to engineer, engineer to consultant, consultant to Sales Engineer , Sales Engineer to leader — began the same way: a new room, higher impact, no script. What carried me wasn't a credential. It was a mindset: stay curious, respect the people closest to the work, and grow in public, even when it's uncomfortable.
My belief is simple: when people thrive, business responds. I didn't read that in a book — I lived it, from every vantage point along the way. That's why I coach!