Founder | Regenerative Guide & Managing Broker

David has spent over 25 years at the fertile edges of real estate and 25 years as an educator. Both vocations have always been the same practice, helping people and places recognize what wants to come to life, and cultivating the ability to bring it forth.

He founded three waves to hold that work fully — as a brokerage grounded in high integrity representation, sophisticated market awareness, and fine-tuned negotiations, and as a guide for the deeper, often unspoken learning journey required in regenerative land, home, and community development. All of his work is aimed at holistic flourishing.

For over 15 years in Portland, Oregon, David collaborated on Living Building Challenge and Passive House projects, cottage clusters, and cohousing developments. This was pioneering work that required years of systemic community engagement to shift a market that wasn't ready yet. Now rooted in the Hudson Valley, he continues that field-building through aester, his regenerative development and leadership studio, and was a founding board member of Deep Hole Nature Sanctuary, an organization dedicated to preserving a beloved swimming hole of the Peterskill Creek and its surrounding ecosystem. He also serves as board president of TapRoot Community Land Trust, helping bring affordable housing options to the region.

At the heart of it all, David is here to serve the Hudson Valley in meeting this present moment — as communities, as organizations, and as people who want to call this place home and contribute to its vitality. That's where the core impulses come from: he's moved to support our collective and personal experiences of greater liberation, to cultivate belonging in everything he does, and to nurture and design for beauty.

In service of that, David is devoted to field building, community development, and placemaking — designing the ecosystem partnerships that connect leading-edge practitioners, aligned capital, and development partners into real, working relationships. This is deeply attuned, non-linear work. It asks him to sense and respond to complexity rather than apply a playbook, which is part of why he weaves his regenerative guide and real estate practice together with executive depth coaching, men's circles, fire circles, and community facilitation — the inner work that gives the outer work its potency.

Outside of three waves, David is usually outside, enjoying year-round cold river plunges, #SunriseWonderWanders, and as much tennis in the park as possible. You're likely to find him with a pencil behind his ear and a sketchbook in hand, sketching a housing type, or redesigning some ordinary object to be a little simpler and more beautiful.