After earning a master’s degree in counseling education from the University of Connecticut, Tom served as a leader in several health care organizations. In 1998, in addition to his executive duties, Tom developed and implemented an Institute for Mind/Body Medicine with Harvard Medical School's Mind/Body Institute. This affiliation provided Tom the opportunity to advance his training, knowledge and skills in the field of complementary and integrative medicine. It also ignited his passion for working with individuals and organizations to help them deal with change and to maximize their potential.

Through his association and experience with the Mind/Body Institute and his own self-directed learning, Tom was inspired to create a training and development model to assist individuals and organizations to assess, understand and implement strategies to enhance their effectiveness and performance. He calls his model EcoDomains. His model integrates the science of stress, the neurosciences, resiliency research and emotional intelligence in a wholistic, dynamic approach that is insightful, renewing and revitalizing. The model seeks alignment and attunement with four primary areas of growth and development that can either drain or provide the energy needed to maximize potential or create dissonance and vulnerabilities.

Tom has also taught at colleges and universities on a part-time basis since he began his master’s degree work at the University of Connecticut. Currently he is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business Management Institute. He teaches a course entitled "Leadership-Achieving Results The Emotionally Intelligent Way". Tom also taught courses for undergraduates at the University entitled "Success Over Stress-Maximizing Your Potential" and courses in Mind/Body Medicine for the school of Continuing Education.

The role of trainer and consultant are not new to Tom. Throughout his executive career he worked on selected projects and programs in partnership with other consultants with clients such as Disney and Texaco. In his leadership roles his philosophy was to engage his management teams in developing leadership potential and in implementing employee and customer programs that focused on creating cultures and climates of commitment, loyalty and service excellence.

Tom’s self-directed learning and quest for information and tools to assist individuals and organizations to enhance their effectiveness lead him to Q-Metrics and Essi Systems who developed the EQ Map and the Resiliency Map respectively. The Maps are self-administered and scored assessments that provide feedback to individuals on their EQ and resiliency strengths and vulnerabilities. Tom was certified in 2001 by Q-Metrics in the use of the EQ Map, which is based on the work of Dr. Robert Cooper and his well-known book, Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations, and Esther Orioli, the CEO of Essi Systems. Tom's commitment to bring the power of emotional intelligence to individuals and organizations resulted in further training and certification by Six Seconds, an internationally recognized leader in the field of emotional intelligence, in 2001.

Tom’s consulting and training clients are varied, including business, health care, government and educational organizations and individuals. He has presented at national conferences and conventions. Participants of his workshops and presentations have characterized his work as inspirational, life changing and motivational.