Good programs outlast the people who build them. That’s the standard I work to.
I’ve spent my career inside organizations that ask a lot of their people: Army special operations, the Space Force, a major hospital system, universities, professional sport, and the cruise lines that carry some of the world’s best performers. I’ve treated in those settings, taught in them, and led in them.
Today I run operations for a healthcare company, direct clinical education for a doctoral program, own a consulting practice, and co-founded an education company and a professional summit. The thread through all of it is structure: clear roles, sound processes, and people who know what good looks like.
Services
Ways to work together
Consulting
For organizations launching, growing, or realigning a clinic, performance program, academic program, or healthcare service.
- Program design and launchStanding up a new clinic, department, academic program, or service line.
- Program review and realignmentAn outside look at what’s working, then a plan to realign it.
- Operations and fractional leadershipDirector or COO leadership, part time and ongoing.
- Testing, data, and technologyProtocols, equipment, reporting, and advice for companies building tools.
Education and speaking
For conferences, universities, clinics, and the clinicians and leaders they develop.
Client care
For athletes, operators, performers, and the events they compete in.
Roles
What I bring
- Operations executiveDirector of Operations and COO, Next Stage PerformanceI run day-to-day operations for a healthcare service provider to cruise line entertainment (clients include Virgin Voyages): staffing, logistics, program development, business development, and growth.
- Business ownerCJ Performance Solutions LLCMy consulting and clinical practice since 2020, and the company through which I contract consulting, program builds, and clinical care.
- Co-founderDungeons & DynamometersAn education company teaching clinicians and coaches to collect, interpret, and act on force, velocity, and isokinetic data, with implementation consulting for clinics.
- Conference organizerCourses, conferences, and a professional summitNational courses and events through Dungeons & Dynamometers, the Elite Rehab Conferences with Erik Meira and The Science PT, co-founder and co-organizer of the Traverse City Tendon Summit, and a member of the AASPT Program Committee shaping the academy’s education programming.
- Academic leaderDirector of Clinical Education and Associate Professor, Augustana UniversityBuilt the clinical education program for a new DPT program. Adjunct faculty at Creighton University, and previously at Auckland University of Technology, Texas Southern, Bellarmine, and the U.S. Air Force Academy fellowship.
- ClinicianBoard-certified sports clinical specialist since 2014Residency and fellowship trained, with care spanning rugby, Olympic weightlifting, MMA and UFC athletes, tennis, CrossFit, running, collegiate and professional sport, tactical and military personnel, para-athletes, and performing artists, including circus and aerial.
- MentorMentoring clinicians, residents, and studentsGuiding others in clinical practice, professional development, and career growth through residency and fellowship collaborations, student clinical education, and one-on-one mentoring. Formerly site coordinator for the Memorial Hermann sports residency, and an annual faculty member for the Wake Forest Division I Sports PT Fellowship.
- ResearcherCurrent, active research across sports medicineOngoing studies and publications on return to sport, strength and force testing, clinical reasoning, and tendon injury, including funded Department of Defense work and an expert Delphi panel. Trained through a research master’s degree in biomechanics (MPhil, Master of Philosophy).
- Professional leaderAASPT Program Committee and 2026 Aspen Ideas: Health FellowRepresented APTA at the AMA CPT Editorial Panel, APTA CSM abstract selection committee, peer reviewer for Sports Health and IJSPT, former research director for EIM and Kinetacore, and former chair roles in the AASPT Sports Performance SIG.
In practice
Across the work
Experience
Where the work has happened
Special operations and military
- U.S. Army Special Operations Command
- Air Force Special Warfare
- U.S. Space Force
- U.S. Air Force Academy
Professional and college sport
- Professional sport
- NCAA Division I programs
- Collegiate athletics departments
National and international sport
- USA Weightlifting and IWF events
- North Harbour Rugby, New Zealand
- Tennis New Zealand
- MMA and UFC athletes
Performing arts
- Cruise line entertainment, through Next Stage Performance
- Circus and aerial performers
- Stage and touring performers
Hospitals and clinics
- Memorial Hermann
- Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
- Frazier Sports Medicine
- Bridge Physical Therapy
- Next Level Physiotherapy and Performance
- In Good Hands Physiotherapy, Auckland
Universities
- Augustana University
- Creighton University
- Auckland University of Technology
- Bellarmine University