Executive Coaching
Dream BIG and accomplish the incredible so that you can create and sustain deep, powerful, lasting change for you, your team, your business, and your world.
Who I work with
I help purpose-driven founders and their teams step up and lead so they can powerfully, authentically, and sustainably propel their business forward.
My clients are:
✔️ Founders, CEOs, and C-level executives at scaling tech companies. I sometimes also work with senior executives of high-growth organizations inside of larger tech companies.
✔️ Trailblazers who don’t follow the rules—they make the rules. But while they know that there is no blueprint or roadmap for success— they also crave more structure and accountability towards accomplishing the seemingly impossible.
✔️ Brilliant, creative, outside-the-box problem-solvers, thinkers, and doers. While this is usually an asset, it must be managed and used for good.
✔️ Mission-driven and will stop at nothing to get the job done…but they are also usually teetering on burnout and know they need to work smarter, not harder.
✔️ Ready to be the change they want to see in the world.
How this works
Using a unique blend of evidence-based coaching, visual thinking, design thinking, gestalt psychology, and narrative psychology, I help help you get out of survival mode so you can start thriving. We then help you sustain that transformation with measurable results that we can see, feel, and most importantly measure.
Each engagement is completely bespoke and unique to each individual client or organization. Using a 4-step framework tailored to your specific needs, goals, and challenges we:
Identify what is already going well (because you often don’t know!), what you and your business need more of from your leadership in order to thrive, and any blind spots you must consider.
Create a powerful vision of a shared future—for yourself and your business—and develop a plan to get you to who and where you need to be.
Make sh*t happen. Once we’re clear on what you need to do and who you need to be to make it all happen, you set the agenda. I keep us on track.
Measure success. Together, we establish internal and external feedback loops to assess, support, fully integrate, and sustain your growth.
This can include narrative 360 interviews, vision, journey, and plan development, personal workshops and retreats, as-needed coaching via Zoom or in person, on-site or remote shadowing and observation.
Team coaching, workshops, and retreats, are additional options we can explore.
From billion dollar CEOs to bootstrapped founders to tech executives and leadership teams, I’ve worked with leaders at:
Results
“My life is so much better after working with Donna. I’ve turned so much around! Before working together, I felt overwhelmed with running my growing business. Together with my team we reorganized our methods for working and communicating to enable my business to grow. Now I feel confident and am the CEO I want to be. I feel less overwhelmed, have cut back my hours, and rely on my team more. ”
“I’ve grown as a person and grown as a leader through working with Donna. I know more about myself and how to lead my company forward.”
“If you’ve tried executive coaching before but still question the value, then I can only assume you’ve never had the Donna experience. You should fix that, stat.”
“It’s been invaluable to work with someone who understands my industry and marries that with expertise in how organizations work, human psychology, and leadership more broadly. I’m more aware of the stories and fictions I tell myself that hold me back, so I’m better able to get out of my own way. I’ve also been able to apply Donna’s story-based techniques to many aspects of my work — from team building to product design. She’s really helped me embrace opportunities that’ve made a huge difference at work and in life.”
““Donna helped me find a beautiful blueprint for finding clarity in the chaos of leadership.””
“Donna provided me actionable steps to becoming a better leader. ”
“Before working with Donna, engineers and product managers did not truly collaborate. After working with Donna, there was very real, and at times magical, collaboration. Donna’s the best at what she does, and you only truly understand what that is after working with her. Give it a shot, you won’t regret it.”
“After spending years in large companies, I thought I knew what I could get out of coaching and mentoring - and was never very impressed with the results. Something always felt missing. When I did some research into what Donna offered, I discovered that piece—someone who isn’t doing this as a box-ticking exercise, who has training and expertise, and familiarity with the challenges I face. Working with Donna has allowed me to dismiss the issues that aren’t important - but get in the way of dealing with the things that actually matter. She has helped me to structure my thinking, set better goals, and have confidence about how I manage my relationships, my day-to-day work, and my career.”
“Stepping into my new role and establishing a brand-new department, I knew it was going to be a challenge. I needed to establish credibility not just with my team and strategic partners, but also with myself. Donna has helped me identify the values, actions, and behaviors I expect from myself to lead in an authentic way. I’m now able to lead with more confidence. ”
“I hesitated for over 3 years to hire a business coach, not because I didn’t believe in them, but more so that I hadn’t found the right one for me. I was drawn to Donna’s design thinking, use of visuals, and her career path of experience in working with successful companies, products, and a range of people searching for how to solve challenging problems.
Donna helped me to see blindspots that I had not seen. I wear many hats: a designer, an entrepreneur, and now a new mom. Donna guided me to discover the beauty and power in all three of those roles, not separated, but one.
If you are up to something great, believe in your vision but don’t know how to get there, crave accountability, or are feeling challenged or powerless, I highly recommend that you do YOU, the world, and your vision a service. Say hello to Donna.”
