WHAT I DO
I'm a Certified Professional Coach trained at the Coaches Training Institute (now called the Co-Active Training Institute). I help people connect with their inner wisdom and creativity and it’s the best job in the world.

I chose to become a coach because I’ve always been curious about what makes people tick and because for as long as I can remember, people have come to me with their conundrums — to vent, to confide, to get a pep talk, a reality check (sometimes those people have been total strangers). When I began coaching in 2014, it felt like I'd arrived at a destination that was expecting me all along. 

Each of us has a core part of ourselves that knows what we want and need. My job is to help people hear what that part has to say. Partnering with people as they get unstuck, change their self-beliefs, see new possibility, and transform into more authentic versions of themselves is the coolest. 

WHO I WORK WITH
I love working with creative people, whether they get paid to be creative or are creative in other parts of their lives. I’ve coached designers, activists, and artists. Writers, professors, and project managers. Magicians, musicians, and photographers. Parents, nurses, and librarians. Therapists, yoga teachers, and architects. Researchers, filmmakers, and DJs. And plenty of people doing their own thing, at their own pace, in their own way.

I’ve worked with clients from Adobe, Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Headspace, IBM, IDEO, Instagram, Microsoft, Mozilla, The New York Times, Nike, Salesforce, and Twitter when it was Twitter (to name a few). I’ve teamed up with people from design consultancies, non-profits, start ups and solopreneurs, and these industries/areas: healthcare, education/academia, food service & hospitality, automotive, film & television, publishing, tech, wellness and plenty of people who are still figuring out where they fit.

Often what brings someone to coaching are work and career-related topics, but it’s common that we expand our range of curiosity from there. Your whole self, your whole experience as a human being is welcome.

WHAT I DID BEFORE COACHING
Before I became a coach, I spent a couple of decades in marketing. The role I last held was marketing director for a user experience design firm. Before that I worked for the car sharing service, Zipcar, during their start-up years. I started out working in publishing and independent book selling, where I once made David Sedaris laugh while introducing him at a book reading — that was a really good day. And before all that, I spent years working in restaurants (front and back of house) where I learned pretty much all there is to know about life.

OTHER STUFF
I was born in L.A., raised in a small town in Northern Michigan, spent a decade in Boston, just shy of two in San Francisco, and currently live in Portland, Oregon where I hope to stay for a very long time.

My last name is pronounced DAG-lee-en, and my pronouns are she/her. I am in my mid-fifties, which isn’t super important, but it means I bring some solid life experience to my work, and that if you were born after 1990, some of my pop culture references may leave you perplexed. I went to a big state university in my home state where my focus was Literature and Women’s Studies.

CERTIFICATION & TRAINING
I am certified by the Co-Active Training Institute and The International Coaching Federation.

Certified means I have completed 200 hours of initial training (including supervision, assessment, and feedback on my coaching), and completed exams, both written and oral.

I have thousands of hours of coaching under my belt and continue to educate myself on all kinds of topics, tools, and modalities that may help my clients (my ongoing certification through the International Coaching Federation requires it!). I have augmented my core coach training with these other programs over the years:

• The Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate program through The Embody Lab

• Internal Family Systems through the IFS Institute

• The Positive Intelligence Coaching Program with Shirzad Chamine

• The Neuroscience of Coaching Program with Ann Betz

My aim is to inform my work as a coach with some of the concepts in these programs that lend themselves to the coaching environment.

Let’s talk!