Coaching for Teams, Leaders and Managers
of Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses & Non-Profits
I help managers and business leaders expand their positive impact.
And help teams get more of the right things done better.
Coaching is an eye-opening intersection of trust and truth that paves the way to progress.
"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)
Leadership Teams and Work Teams
I have a life-long fascination with high-performing teams. I’ve watched teammates bond, succeed together, celebrate each other. Over many years of supporting Fortune 500 business and non-profit organizational development initiatives across a spectrum of industries as a project manager and as a consultant, I discussed these things with the professionals who were most responsible to create and sustain a healthy work environment throughout their companies. Now, I help teams at any level of an organization experience the victories, self-awareness, and human connection that comes with great teamwork.
Leaders and Managers
There was a time when I was as an IT project manager and there were way too many projects and too little of me. When I cried “uncle” to my employer, THEY LISTENED! Their response affirmed me and sparked my loyalty. I was motivated to re-engage at a high level. My career taught me how great leaders think, feel, communicate, and self-regulate. So I'm thrilled when someone comes for one-on-one coaching to develop their leadership skills. It’s not just for them. It’s for their team members, their peers, their organization. It can be so impactful.
Need a change of scenery?
It could be a promotion, a lateral move within the same company, or time to make your way to a brand new situation. Transitions are among the most important times in our lives as we choose a future direction for ourselves and our families. My assessment process can open you up to possibilities you might have missed, and growth edges to focus on in pursuit of your "next." I know the importance of staying active while in transition. So together, we’ll create accountability structures that will keep you motivated to keep forging ahead.
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:
1. Assess and Discover
My standard assessment packages for teams and individuals are designed to quickly identify the best starting points for coaching. We'll debrief in ways that help uncover new, helpful frameworks that inspire and inform transformative change. We can also support an organization's preferred assessments through our partner network.
2. Goal-Setting
We work together to prioritize the areas of growth a team or individual wants to work on, and define what success looks like in practical terms. That helps us to create specific, achievable and relevant goals.
And we set goals in a way that never overwhelms. Coaching is meant to stretch and grow you, not burden you.
3. Create Action Plans
Whether coaching a team or an individual, we'll think through the action steps needed to reach each goal, including an honest look at challenges and roadblocks that might present, and we talk through how to overcome them. Solid, realistic planning is so important to seeing your best intentions blossom into reality.
4. Accountability Your Way
Coaching is never effective without following through on the action steps that you clarify for yourself as we meet. Many clients say the accountability offered is the most valuable part of the coaching.
Accountability is never 'punitive' but instead curious to discover new obstacles and ways of overcoming them.
You can learn more about some of the theory I find most helpful in coaching by visiting my FAQs page.
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 put in the study and earn the credentials that reflect my immersion in the profession of coaching teams and leaders.
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. A musician at heart, I enjoy friends here who educate me about the live music scene up and down the beach.