Still waiting for your "real" life to start?

I’ve helped millions begin transforming their experience of life.

Let’s find your path.

—Michael Caloz
Coaching for Full-Stack Humans

Still waiting for your "real" life to start?

I’ve helped millions begin transforming their experience of life.

Let’s find your path.

—Michael Caloz
Coaching for Full-Stack Humans

Are you a future-oriented, multi-passionate big-thinker?

Let’s take you from indecision, overwhelm, and stuckness substantial impact, clear purpose, and stimulating connection.

I’ve coached hundreds of people to transform their lives—from Fortune 500 leaders, to data scientists, to a Mount Everest record holder, to people who had no idea what they wanted to do with their lives.

My specialty is ENTP & INTP personality types, and I work with a lot of INFJ's, INTJ's, ENFJ's, and ENFP's too.

People who have awesome ideas but don't end up following through (or staying focused) on them.

People who have so much potential but struggle to make the impact they want to be making on the world—leaving them feeling jaded, overwhelmed, or frustrated.

Sound like you?

You have endless amazing ideas but trouble focusing down to the best one and taking real action on it. You overthink everything (even choices that "should" be easy like which restaurant to eat at).
You know you have so much potential, but you struggle with inconsistent motivation & energy. You live with depression and/or anxiety. You want to find/create your deepest purpose—one that really lights you up.
You’re into lifehacking & productivity (Tim Ferriss, James Clear, Andrew Huberman, Sam Harris, etc.). But you feel burnt out trying to follow all that advice. You really wish you could find the one thing that would finally work.
You highly value rationality. You’re probably an atheist, and you might feel nihilistic at times. Or, maybe you've dabbled in Buddhism, meditation, or psychedelics (or you're curious about those).
You hate small talk and you love going deep. So you often feel lonely. It’s hard to find “your people” and make great friends. You have high standards for yourself and others, and you wish for a community where you could really belong.

Sound like you?

You have endless amazing ideas but trouble focusing down to the best one and taking real action on it. You overthink everything (even choices that "should" be easy like which restaurant to eat at).
You know you have so much potential, but you struggle with inconsistent motivation & energy. You live with depression and/or anxiety. You want to find/create your deepest purpose—one that really lights you up.
You’re into lifehacking & productivity (Tim Ferriss, James Clear, Andrew Huberman, Sam Harris, etc.). But you feel burnt out trying to follow all that advice. You really wish you could find the one thing that would finally work.
You highly value rationality. You’re probably an atheist, and you might feel nihilistic at times. Or, maybe you've dabbled in Buddhism, meditation, or psychedelics (or you're curious about those).
You hate small talk and you love going deep. So you often feel lonely. It’s hard to find “your people” and make great friends. You have high standards for yourself and others, and you wish for a community where you could really belong.

I work with leaders at companies like:

Plus, employees and entrepreneurs from 6 continents—in industries as diverse as crypto, government, education, tech startup, health & wellness, and beyond.

My client list includes executives & founders, product managers, teachers, doctors, consultants, artists, coaches, grad school students, data analysts, a librarian, a zookeeper, and more.

I’ve helped millions start changing their lives.

Personality typing is just the beginning (we can even skip it if it's not right for you).

Nearly a million people a year—from nearly every country—take my test (often referred to as "the Michael Caloz test") to find their personality type.

That’s a huge step toward better understanding what you need to feel energized and motivated.

But you're a complex human, and your type is just one part of your story.

For a personal growth path to be truly effective, it must be customized. That’s why I’ve studied a variety of coaching modalities—because everyone's different, and I don't want to give you cookie-cutter solutions.

Business + Mindfulness. Thinking + Feeling.

I'm a highly rational Thinker-type (and a skeptic at heart) who studied computer science and worked in management consulting.

But I also lived in Japan, deeply studied Buddhism, and actively pursued existential awakening for over a decade.

Thanks to that blended life experience, my style is a unique mix of East & West—analytical, research-backed psychology, and somatic, feelings-oriented mindfulness.

The trick to real growth is not just knowing answers in your mind. It's deeply experiencing the truth of them—feeling it in your body.

You're not just one thing. You're a complex combination of systems.

To unlock your full potential, you need to become a Full-Stack Human.

I offer an uncommon blend of coaching, counseling, & mentoring.

Unlike many life coaches or executive coaches, I also have three years of comprehensive training in psychological counseling.

Plus, I can offer mentorship (i.e., specific advice based on my own journey) in areas like:

Succeeding in the world of tech (Agile, product management, UX, game design);
Promoting DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) and being a more confident, resilient, effective ally (especially as a straight white guy);
Dealing with the nihilism of atheism and finding meaning & motivation in life;
Learning how to make friends as an adult, deepen your connections, and improve your marriage/relationships (including ethically non-monogamous ones);
Going from overthinking to confident decision-making, and from endless unfocused interests to finding your dream career & designing your life purpose.

To help overcome your most frustrating challenges, I'll pull in the right technique at the right time:

The world's most-respected modality for executive & life coaching, used by the leaders of over half the Fortune 500. Through Co-Active, we’ll explore you as a whole person (both home & work life)—with curiosity rather than judgment.

This changed my life. Hakomi is a somatic counseling practice integrating Western psychotherapy, Eastern mindfulness, and cutting-edge neurobiology. It’s like looking at the underlying structure of your mind (and entire nervous system) with a magnifying glass—to understand how you work at a deep level.

This is all about understanding how you take in information and process it—how your type of mind tends to be organized. Knowing your type helps you make better decisions, use your innate superpowers, and get re-energized when you feel drained. My favorite systems include Jung-Myers (16 types), Enneagram, Big Five, DISC, StrengthsFinder, Sparketype, and Four Tendencies.

Based on rigorous scientific research conducted at Stanford on hundreds of CEO's and elite athletes, Positive Intelligence builds the muscle of mental fitness—to improve performance, emotional wellbeing, and reduce feelings like overwhelm and frustration.

I weave in a variety of other modalities as well, including:

Brené Brown’s Brave Leaders framework
Agile / Lean
R-CS Re-Creation of the Self
Nonviolent-communication (NVC)
Meditation & mindfulness techniques from Buddhism (particularly Sōtō Zen and Theravadan Vipassana)

Clients are often pleasantly surprised when I tie together ideas from multiple systems and modalities for them.

(For example, someone might appear to be, say, an INTP. But, our Hakomi & Enneagram work might reveal a deeper truth underneath. Perhaps part of their core Feeler self has been covered up by years of trying to live up to their ENTJ parent's or society's priorities, which celebrate Thinker types and decisiveness. Then, we can work to surface that deeper self by using techniques from, say, Positive Intelligence & R-CS).

Want to learn more about me and my coaching/counseling practice?