Topanga, California
Working worldwide
Create your
next chapter.
You’ve built, earned, or been given more than most people ever will. The question now is what it’s for.
I work privately with a small number of founders, elite performers, and accomplished people who are ready for a fuller life: deeper purpose, stronger relationships, and work that means something beyond the number.
What are you ready to grow?
- ColumbiaMBA · Heffernan Award for Service & Leadership
- USCAccounting · Renaissance & Presidential Scholar
- DeloitteFormer auditor, billion-dollar funds · retail · hospitality · CPA
- Ventures30+ startups and 3 funds advised · $12M investment readiness prep
- Faces of the FutureCo-founder with Victoria Petrovsky
- MediaGeneral Manager of Digital · Beverly Hills Courier · co-publisher and Editor-in-Chief international magazine
01 The moment after the goal
Success answers some questions. It raises better ones.
The people I work with aren’t lost. They’re founders, athletes, artists, and heirs: capable, resourced, and usually admired. What they’re facing is quieter than a crisis and harder to talk about: the life they have no longer fits the person they’re becoming.
If you’ve built it
You hit the number, and it didn’t land the way you thought it would.
The exit, the title, the house. The next target feels like more of the same.
If you were given it
You have freedom and options. What you want is something that’s unmistakably yours.
A real challenge, a real responsibility, a reason to get up that nobody handed you.
If you performed at the top
The stage, the field, or the tour gave you an identity. Now the spotlight is fading.
Elite athletes, musicians, and performers who are ready to be someone beyond the role.
02 Three ways in
What are you ready to grow?
Two domains, one person. Choose where the pressure is greatest right now. Each path leads to a short application and a private conversation with me.
Life & identity
Yourself
Purpose, direction, relationships, and spiritual experience you can live on an ordinary Tuesday.
Discuss your
next chapter →
Wellness growth & commercialization
Your business
Positioning, economics, and go-to-market for wellness companies with a real product and the resources to grow it.
Discuss your
growth strategy →
Life & business
Both
For founders whose next chapter needs the person and the enterprise to evolve together.
Discuss life
& business →
03 Why me
At home in boardrooms and ashrams.
Most advisors understand one side of your life. I’ve spent fifteen years in both: auditing billion-dollar funds and building companies from an apartment, and also sitting in silence in India, in men’s circles, and with people in the middle of spiritual crisis. You don’t have to translate yourself for me.
The boardroom
- FinanceDeloitte audit of multi-billion-dollar hedge funds
- BuildCo-founder & COO of a wellness company, 2 to 39 people
- CapitalInvestment readiness for a potential $12M debt raise; three venture funds
- DealsHonored guest, first Misk Global Forum, Riyadh, 2016
The ashram
- TravelTraveled India alone for spiritual practice
- TrainingParamashivoham I & II; Joe Dispenza’s seven-day advanced retreat
- Practice750+ hours of intuitive and channeling work; 50+ Akashic Records Readings
- Men’s workThree years of consistent, weekly men’s work
None of it matters as much as the person in front of me. What it gives me is range: the ability to see your whole situation, find the clear strategy and the next right step, and let you own it. I don’t push. I help you see, then ask where you’d like to go.
04 Track record
Wellness. Capital. Media.
Three threads that rarely meet in one person: building wellness companies, structuring capital and deals, and creating media that puts entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and policymakers in the same room.
Capital
$12M
Potential debt raise for a wellness-device company. I led investment readiness, go-to-market strategy, and the financial model.
Deals
3→1
Strategy and financial model for a proposed three-company merger across AI, healthcare, and devices.
Expansion
32
Cities in a franchise rollout strategy, with store economics and franchise compensation, for a water concept.
The media thread
Faces of the Future magazine
Co-publisher and editor-in-chief of an international publication connecting entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and politicians, distributed at the UN General Assembly, the US–Africa Leaders Summit, and the C40 Conference of Latin Mayors.
Beverly Hills Courier
General manager of digital services. Built an incubator for international sites and new revenue lines, ran promotions for Rodeo Drive events, and supported the company’s sale.
SwipeZine
Co-founder. Web and mobile revenue products for newspapers, radio stations, musicians, and local businesses.
Operator experience: co-founder & COO of Human Garage, an integrative wellness company grown from a two-person apartment operation to ~$200K months and a team of 39. The $12M raise and the merger were proposed transactions; the 32-city work is a strategy and model, not a completed rollout.
Thorough and multifaceted, and highly specific and tailored to what’s needed for my growth and expansion.
Jesse Z.Spiritual integration facilitator
“I’d get strategy calls, but no real implementation. That all changed…”
Corbin B.Bestselling author & relationship coach
“They supported me every step of the way, not only in launching my first digital product, but also empowering me around wellness.”
Leslie O.Self-care coach for women
“Until you experience it, you’ll never really know.”
Lucas RubixEntrepreneur, investor & author
Experiences of work with Clifton and Victoria through Faces of the Future.
05 The life behind the work
I practice what I ask of you.
I live in Topanga with my fiancée, Victoria, and our two cats. We co-founded Faces of the Future together. We’re opposites in almost every way, and building a conscious relationship and a company side by side has taught me more about leadership than business school did.
I play beach volleyball, make music, host a podcast, and write software for fun. I’m building a Total Life of Joy, and I measure it the same way I’d measure yours: by what holds up under pressure.
06 Writing & conversations
Read how I think.
Essays, a podcast with Victoria, and two albums. If you want to know me before we speak, start here.
Growth & capacity
When expansion outruns capacity
What almost broke me wasn’t spiritual awakening. It was expansion without structure.
Read →
Values & daily life
What you worship is revealed by your calendar, not your altar
Where your time and attention go is what you actually value.
Read →
Building & becoming
In-between
The long stretch between starting something and making it last.
Read →
Where to begin
What do you want this chapter to hold?
YourselfA life that feels as good from the inside as it looks from the outside.
Your businessA wellness company with the strategy and economics to scale.
BothWhat you build. Who you become. Growing in the same direction.
Faces of the Future is the company Victoria and I built together, with programs and a community for coaches, healers, and service founders. Some of my private work draws on its methods. Visit Faces of the Future ↗