Who I Am

I’m not here to sell you healing.

I’m here because I’ve lived through enough collapse to know what’s real.

My name is Dean Hobson.

I’m a father, a veteran, a former healthcare executive, and a man who burned everything down to build something true. I’ve guided people through breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between. I've been through betrayal and made choices I had to make peace with.
I’ve experienced real loss—of identity, marriage, health, purpose. And I’ve rebuilt—not into perfection, but into presence.

What I Do

I guide people through transformation. Men stepping into real leadership. Women remembering their worth. Couples healing what’s broken between them.

Some come to me for trauma work. Some for nervous system regulation. Others for intimacy, business coaching, or spiritual integration. Many come when they’re at a crossroads—tired of pretending, ready for something real.

What I offer is not a quick fix. It’s not about becoming someone new. It’s about coming home to who you really are.

Why I Created The Sovereignty Path

Because I believe transformation requires depth. It asks us to face what’s real—not just what’s comfortable. It’s not about escaping the hard parts, but learning how to meet them with presence.

I created The Sovereignty Path to bring together what truly works:

  • Inner stillness and nervous system truth
  • Deep trauma resolution and emotional clarity
  • Somatic awareness, masculine/feminine harmony, and aligned action
  • Tools that go beneath the surface and honor the full spectrum of human experience

This isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who you’ve always been—and reclaiming the authority to live that way.


This is your invitation to live fully—on your terms.

Dean Hobson

Straight talk. Deep presence. No fluff.

  • Former hospital executive (30+ years in health systems)
  • U.S. Navy veteran
  • Trauma-informed and spiritually integrated
  • Father of three
  • Creator of The Sovereignty Path

Professional Background

  • Founder, Dean Hobson Wellness – 2012–Present
    Holistic wellness programs using biomarkers, data-driven coaching, movement, and supplements.
  • Co-Founder, The Custom Plate, LLC – Holistic meal delivery and nutrition enterprise ($1.2M annual revenue).
  • Leadership Roles – University of Washington Medicine, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Kaiser Permanente.
  • Service Line Administrator, Neurosciences & Neurological Surgery – UW Health System.
  • Assistant Director of Imaging – Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center.
  • Military Service – U.S. Navy Corpsman, Honorable Discharge (8 years).

Education & Certifications

  • MBA, University of Colorado (Health Admin, Pharmaceutical Mgmt, Health Economics)
  • BS, Health Sciences – University of Phoenix
  • Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach
  • Reiki Master | Yoga Teacher | Ordained Minister
  • Trauma-Informed Somatic Practitioner

The Sovereignty Path

After decades of leading teams, guiding patients, and walking through my own crucifixions, I created The Sovereignty Path as a structure for human wholeness.

It bridges science and spirit — combining functional wellness, trauma repatterning, and conscious leadership into one unified system for men, women, and couples.

It exists to help people unravel through remembrance and unbecome into being.

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Dean — Founder & Architect of The Sovereignty Path

Dean Hobson is a systems-level leader, change agent, and architect of human transformation with over three decades of experience operating inside complexity, pressure, and consequence.

Before creating The Sovereignty Path, Dean spent his professional life in senior healthcare leadership, working across academic medicine, nonprofit systems, for-profit healthcare, government entities, and unionized environments. His career spans operational leadership in radiology, molecular imaging, oncology, cardiology, and neurosciences, where he was responsible for multi-million-dollar budgets, large interdisciplinary teams, regulatory compliance, labor relations, capital planning, and service-line growth. He has led cultural turnarounds, redesigned failing systems, expanded clinical and research programs, and delivered results in environments where failure had real human cost.

Across roles, Dean consistently operated as a bridge-builder: between clinicians and administrators, frontline staff and executives, research and operations, vision and execution. He is known for his ability to see interdependencies inside complex systems, identify leverage points, and bring the right people together to reduce friction, restore trust, and produce sustainable outcomes. His leadership style is hands-on, relational, and structurally disciplined, grounded in the belief that clarity, accountability, and human dignity must coexist for systems to function well .

What Changed

Over time, Dean recognized a deeper pattern beneath organizational dysfunction: human systems fail when individuals lose sovereignty—when people operate from fear, performance, survival roles, or inherited conditioning rather than clarity and self-governance. He saw the same dynamics repeat in leadership teams, institutions, relationships, and inner lives.

The Sovereignty Path emerged not as a departure from his past work, but as its logical evolution.

What He Brings to The Sovereignty Path

Dean brings to this work something rare: the fusion of lived executive accountability with deep inner transformation, translated into structure that actually holds in the real world.

He is not offering philosophy, belief, or bypass. He has built a complete operating system for human sovereignty, designed the same way effective organizations are built:

  • clear frameworks
  • defined stages
  • measurable outputs
  • repair protocols
  • governance structures
  • and accountability to lived behavior

The Sovereignty Path is grounded in the C3 architecture — Clear, Connect, Create — and expressed through four integrated programs (FORTIFY, UNVEIL, UNITY, External Shadow Work), each mapped across five human realms: Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual/Energetic, and Applied Sovereignty. This system reflects Dean’s career-long discipline of designing frameworks that scale, adapt, and remain coherent under pressure .

His Unique Contribution

Dean’s unique contribution is not inspiration. It is translation.

He translates:

  • trauma into structure
  • insight into practice
  • coherence into leadership
  • healing into systems
  • inner truth into external governance

He understands that change fails without structure, and structure collapses without truth. The Sovereignty Path is built to prevent both.

Where many personal-development models remain internal or abstract, Dean insists on Applied Sovereignty—how clarity shows up in daily decisions, relationships, leadership, boundaries, work, and legacy. This insistence comes directly from decades of responsibility for outcomes, people, and systems that could not afford illusion.

Who He Is in This Work

Dean is not positioned as a guru, savior, or authority over others. His role is that of architect, guide, and accountability partner—someone who has lived inside collapse, repair, leadership, and responsibility, and who knows how to build containers that help others do the same.

He brings:

  • deep respect for human complexity
  • intolerance for incoherence
  • compassion without collapse
  • clarity without domination
  • and devotion to truth over image

The Sovereignty Path is the culmination of his life’s work: a practical, ethical, and grounded system for individuals, couples, and communities to reclaim self-governance and live from coherence rather than survival.

It exists because Dean knows—both personally and professionally—that sovereignty is not a concept.

It is a practice, and it must be built to hold.