"Working with Dave has been a blessing. While I've been in the professional world for many years, I lacked official training and coaching. Dave worked diligently with me to uncover my weaknesses, identify the causes, and provided me with the tools to turn them into strengths. The coaching that I had with Dave allowed me to reflect upon myself and how I could truly improve in my professional life. I credit Dave in the transformation I've had this last year."
- Jillian S., Client Services Manager
The ROI of Executive/Leadership Coaching:
Read about it here (Forbes and American University)
Less STRESS
What would life be like if your professional stress level was cut by one half? Two thirds? More? Here’s the good news: Stress reduction - which nearly always impacts other parts of your life positively - is a common outcome of executive coaching.
More IMPACT
What if you could truly focus on the most important priorities on any given day? How could your organization, even your own career, benefit from your ability to better distinguish between diligence and distraction? It's a common theme among Executives, Leader and Managers, and solutions are often found through executive coaching.
Greater SUCCESS
Any organization or work team can produce greater value for their clients, stakeholders and even their employees - when leaders and managers are truly invested in enhancing their capability to spearhead the organization. The Leader/Manager Enrichment Program is designed for those willing to make the investment.
Who I Serve
Executives - Small to Mid-Sized Organizations
You may be responsible to set the vision, values, mission and overall goals of as many as 500 people in your organization. Or, you may be the Leader/Manager who is accountable for a significant portion of organizational performance. How can you enlist the best efforts of your team so they are highly successful and excited? How can you interact in even more productive ways with peers and team members? My Leader/Manager Enrichment Program is designed for you.
Leader/Managers
You may be accountable for a team, or you may supervise no staff yet play a key role that impacts some aspect of your organization's performance. You can benefit from expanding your leadership skills to be a positive support, influence and role model to the people you work with. I can help you focus on time-honored leadership wisdom as we co-create practical exercises specific to your situation - real things you can do to create positive impacts for you and your team.
Career Exploration and Transition
Everyone faces it at least once – the need for job/career change. These are among the most important times in a working person’s life as you choose a future direction for yourself and your family. They can also be times when you have tremendous power in your hands - the power to choose your future! A good coach can help you see the possibilities for positive change in these exciting and possibly challenging times.
What I Do
Effective coaching is a collaborative effort that requires a high degree of honesty and trust between us. My coaching is a conversational process with four key elements:
You can learn more about some of the theory I find most helpful in coaching by visiting my FAQs page.
What is it like to be coached?
We usually begin with assessments that help us uncover your values, strengths, situation, and highest-priority goals. We’ll analyze the results together and then co-create a coaching plan that best fits the way you process your thoughts and discover new ideas. This often involves your inclination to focus either on actions and behaviors, or on deeper attitudes and motivations, or the right mix of both.
However we decide to proceed, your conversations with me should feel like those you would have someone you deeply trust and who has a knack for asking questions that encourage you to think more deeply and fearlessly than ever before about the future state you want to create, the obstacles both within and outside of yourself that might get in the way, and how you can overcome the obstacles to create your desired future state. We’ll tackle the hills, rivers, plains, and valleys in front of you at a pace that challenges you to grow but never faster than you decide to move.
My coaching should never feel like I’m trying to “fix” you as though you’re broken. It’s more about bringing your strengths to the fore and being your partner in growth!
Here's how my clients most often envision the path to their ideal future state:
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Level up their ability to inspire and encourage their teams to reach business goals
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Clarify the values, vision and mission of their team or organization
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Become a respected champion of healthy and productive team behaviors
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Develop a roster of “strong players” for positions of greater responsibility
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Navigate the complex landscape of “middle management”
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Bring the goals of efforts of separate teams into organizational alignment
My clients have called me their thought partner, accountability partner, a wall to bounce ideas off, and a trusted confidant. I am honored and humbled to have been told such things, and I would be honored to be that for your current and emerging Leader/managers.
ABOUT ME
Supporting others has always been what comes to me most naturally. Great leaders I've been associated with have modeled it to me, and I wanted to study and emulate it. In so doing, I learned that it is deeply satisfying to create the conditions for teams and people to flourish, and then to watch them succeed in their most meaningful and worthwhile pursuits.
I have over 40 years of management and leadership experience in the U.S. military, in private industry, and in the non-profit sector, most of this in the fields of information technology and organizational training and development. I'm convinced that leadership traits can be learned and practiced, and that for many people the journey begins with self-leadership.
My life-long passion to contribute to the success of others has led me to obtain certifications from the Center for Christian Coaching (2023) and the International Coaching Federation (2024). I am currently in process to receive an additional certification from the Center for Executive Coaching (target: Q2 2025).
A proud Buffalo native, after nearly 9 years of military service I made the Washington, D.C. area "home base" for 40 years. My wife and I have landed next to the beach in Southern Delaware, where we live within a short drive of both of our adult kiddos and pick up the fur from our precious Golden Retriever/Great Pyrenees mix.
