Coaching

Executive & Team

Become a better leader by becoming a better version of yourself

Show up for your team and yourself with courage, confidence, clarity, and calm

Get there by unpacking and letting go of the beliefs, ideas, and commitments that are complicating your life and disrupting your teams

Executive Coaching

Being a leader today is often complex and overwhelming. Most of us struggle day to day to feel like we’ve tapped into our potential and that we’re having the impact we want to. And few us of feel a deep sense of fulfillment or joy in our role.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

The alternative is a form of conscious leadership with more impact and less effort.

I partner with executive and senior leaders to help them create a reset on that complexity and overwhelm to create a leadership mindset that to lead with more courage, confidence, clarity, and calm.

you have to simplify to amplify…

The hard truth to resolve is that you have too much and that is driving the complexity and overwhelm in your leadership role (and life).

You’ve accumulated a lifetime of beliefs, ideas, and commitments and not all of them are useful or even true anymore (your personal version of leadership bullsh*t). And there’s a need to declutter that noise to create the space you need to make room for what matters the most and become a minimalistic leader.

Minimalistic leadership isn't about having less for the sake of less; it's about stripping away the non-essential and junk to create more space for clarity, purpose, and meaningful engagement.

As a minimalistic leader, you’ll find easier access to our courage and confidence in conflicts and difficult conversations. You’ll find more clarity and clam by decluttering your leadership bullsh*t and aligning your actions with what’s essential to you, your values, and your deeper sense of self.

Let’s connect and see how minimalistic leadership can help you unlock a life of more meaning, fulfillment, and impact!

…and you have to cut to create

My commitment to you as a client is to offer robust challenge, support, and availability, so all of my clients have access to unlimited coaching sessions. My goal is to help you grow as a person and a leader, not count the number of sessions.

This approach also means that I have a limited number of clients and only take on clients who are fully invest in doing the work to improve themselves as people and leaders — folks who are willing to lean into curiosity and humility to experiment, explore, fail, and embrace learning as the foundation of being a better leader.

Team Coaching

Change how your team works by changing how your team thinks.

Imagine what it would be like to... 

  • Have transparent insights into your colleagues’ priorities?

  • Understand why some of your team members resist change?

  • Generate collaborative ideas, faster, with less effort?

  • Work in a place where diverse voices and perspectives mattered?

  • Have more energy for work, not less?

Team coaching is all about drawing out new information from the members of the team, increasing positivity in the team, and working together to find more effective and cohesive responses to the challenges you face.

If you are willing to put in the work, your team can become more connected, cohesive, and courageous.

I work with teams that are having a range of experiences, from trying to recover from conflict to maintaining success as a high-performing team. You want your team to work better together, have a healthy team culture, and do work that matters.

Maybe your team is struggling with the conflict and uncertainty of change. (All teams do.)

They worry they won’t get it right. They want to be nice but nice is leaving them resentful and drained. They want their team to take more ownership of the team’s success.

Through our sessions, I help them become teams that face challenges head-on with courage and compassion. They lean into tough conversations, navigate fears and feelings, build safety and trust, promote diversity and inclusion, and create higher-performing teams. And they don’t sacrifice themselves or their values to get there.

Relationship is the currency that runs organizations. ~ CRR Global

  • Dave helped me become more strategic and proactive in how I lead.

    — Mike Lee, USC

  • If you want rich, practical, and incisive coaching to help you lead through increasingly complex times, Dave is the one for you.

    — Celine Marquez, Genentech

  • Dave's facilitation was engaging, compassionate, and authentic—he felt like one of the team after knowing him just a short while.

    - Kristin Valerius, Sundstrom Clinic

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