Live life by Design rather than Default.
Executive coaching, team development, and leadership programs grounded in clinical psychology and 25+ years of evidence-based practice.
Personal coaching to enhance professional development and Management Consulting for the challenging issues of managing an effective team.
Where would you like to start?
Leaders & Executives
1:1 executive and leadership coaching built on a five-step process.
Start here →Women in Leadership
LeadHer — a Jungian, archetype-based series for women who lead.
Start here →Organizations
Workshops, team development, and consulting scoped to your organization.
Start here →Therapists
Writing and clinical consultation for therapists and clinical teams.
Start here →Credentialed, not just certified.
A doctorate in how people think, change and grow, applied to leadership.
Clinical licensure most executive coaches don't have.
Private practice, corporate talent leadership, and university teaching.
Also a Certified Professional Coach (College of Executive Coaching), working with Social + Emotional Intelligence, positive psychology, and the Enneagram.
Depth Beyond Certification
My work is informed by a PhD in Clinical Psychology, licensure as a Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), certification as a Professional Coach, and years of experience in executive coaching, leadership development, team building, and organizational consultation.
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This multidisciplinary foundation allows me to understand both the person and the system—bringing psychological depth to the very real challenges of leadership, relationships, performance, and organizational life.
A Process Designed for Results
Coaching should be more than a series of good conversations. Each engagement follows a purposeful, five-step process that moves from assessment and goal clarification through development, application, and measurable results.
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The process creates structure and accountability while remaining responsive to the individual. The goal is not simply greater insight, but translating insight into intentional action and meaningful outcomes.
Frameworks Grounded in Human Potential
My approach draws from Social and Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology, strength-based practices, and evidence-informed principles of human development.
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Rather than beginning with deficit—What is wrong or what needs to be fixed?—we begin with potential: What strengths already exist? What has not yet been fully developed? What patterns may be limiting access to that potential? And what becomes possible when those strengths are intentionally leveraged?
Clients move through a structured yet individualized process designed to deepen self-awareness, expand capacity, and translate their strengths into meaningful progress toward the outcomes that matter most to them.
Assessment to results — you always know where you are.
Recent writing from Dr. Donna
Why Self-Awareness Is a Leadership Competency
Self-awareness is not a soft skill. It is the skill underneath every other leadership skill.
Read the post →The Space Between the Extremes
Athena, the Golden Mean, and the development of a woman leader.
Read the post →Observing the Space Between the Extremes
Athena and the Golden Mean as a lens for the responses clients default to.
Read the post →"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."