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| About Diane |
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Diane Bolden is passionate about working with leaders to unleash human potential. An executive coach, speaker, author and organization development professional with more than 19 years of experience in leadership development, coaching and consulting, Diane has worked with managers, directors and vice presidents/officers in Fortune 100 and 500 companies and nonprofit organizations to achieve higher levels of performance and success by helping them to bring out the best in themselves and everyone around them. Her first book, The Pinocchio Principle ~ Becoming the Leader You Were Born to Be, was released in January of 2011.
Diane has a Masters in Business Administration from Arizona State University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona. She is a Certified Corporate Coach and a graduate of Corporate Coach University.
Diane is committed to working with leaders who seek to continually improve themselves so they can make a larger impact and contribution to their organizations, their communities and everyone around them. She has helped her clients and their teams get to the heart of their challenges and tackle their most significant issues and opportunities while learning to access and utilize their own internal wisdom, intuition, and natural talent.
Diane has proven expertise in leadership development. She has taught, facilitated and designed numerous programs over the years, and worked with managers, directors and vice presidents/officers and their teams to help them learn and apply strategies for improving their effectiveness. Her experiences led her to recognize that people learn best when they are faced with challenges that require them not only to develop new skills but to effectively apply them. She complements this knowledge with the philosophy that often what is required is not only learning, but unlearning. As Diane works with her clients to align their intentions and actions with desired results, she also helps them identify and eliminate habits, patterns and assumptions that keep them from doing their best work.
Many coaches shy away from advising their clients, leaving them at a loss as to how to best approach organizational and leadership challenges. Diane draws from her experience and knowledge of organizational behavior and leadership development and blends it with a powerful coaching approach that allows people to access their own wisdom and leverage their strengths to rise up to challenges and opportunities.
Diane is a native Phoenician who is happily married and blessed with three beautiful children.
Click here for information on Diane's Leadership Coaches
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"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| TESTIMONIALS |
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"Diane has taught me how to be more productive yet work less. This was a completely foreign concept to me since I have achieved most levels in my career through hard work and then working harder. I had always worked under the assumption that I had to be "in control" for anything to really get done right. Diane has taught me to rely on the skills and abilities of others and to feel comfortable in delegating key tasks. This has allowed me to elevate my level of thinking to more strategic concerns. Another positive result of this lesson is that for the first time in my professional career, my stress level is down yet my productivity and results have soared.
Over the years, I have been through many management training programs, leadership seminars, behavioral effectiveness training, and motivational programs. While this training was helpful, none of these classes ever truly impacted me to the point where I changed my behavior. While working with Diane, I have changed my management style, my communication delivery, and my behavior. The past several months have been eye-opening for me and I have a renewed passion for improving myself not just to become a better manager but also to simply become a better person."
- Brian Moore, Information Services Account Manager, Fortune 500 Company, Phoenix, AZ |
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"I began my work with Diane in an effort to improve my effectiveness and better use my time in a way that would make the greatest contribution to my organization and community. The work we have done together has allowed me not only to be more focused and balanced, but also to become aware of the things I do that either contribute to my success or prevent me from getting the results I aspire to. Diane has helped me gain insight into how I am perceived by those I seek to build and maintain strong relationships with. I have utilized this newfound awareness to improve my interaction and communication with them as well as to address blind spots and leverage my strengths. The work I have done with Diane has allowed me to catch myself before falling into unproductive patterns and instead take action that brings about collaborative and creative solutions and lasting change.
I look forward to my meetings with Diane and feel they have benefited me both professionally and personally. The value she has provided has far exceeded my initial expectations."
- Marty Shultz, Vice President, Governmental Affairs, Fortune 500 Company, Phoenix, AZ |
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"From the beginning, Diane's coaching approach was to bring what I needed from where it already was - inside me. With this she blended a strong ability to know when I needed a bit of a shove and when I needed an ear or a heart. She also blended a fairly open free style approach (which is the only thing that would have worked with me) with, when appropriate, a more formalized focus to maintain movement toward agreed upon goals and objectives. I have always been a venturesome supporter of continuing growth, and clearly I saw my relationship with Diane as an opportunity to make quantum moves. To say I am satisfied would be a gross understatement.
Very directly, Diane has helped me to: adopt different communication styles when called for; avoid avoidance; manifest what I could see or envision; deal with tough personnel issues while at the same time being honest and compassionate; forge relationships where formerly there was historical baggage and confrontation; delegate; develop the people around me; connect learnings to both work and non-work and see them both benefit; have the courage to be honest; the strength to do away with a lot of fear; stretch my styles and body of knowledge; be a more credible and called for voice at the corporate table; and be rewarded and compensated fairly for what I do. To reiterate, the progress that Diane helped me cultivate manifests itself at work, at home and in my life.
As an aside, I have also had the fortune and pleasure of working with Diane as an Organization Development consultant in both my department and with the larger company and believe she demonstrates formidable skills in this area as well. I have watched and participated in some pretty tough groups that Diane took through visioning, planning, mission, strategy, tactics, and implementation with excellent results."
- Paul Reynolds, Director of Communications, Fortune 500 Company, Phoenix, AZ |
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"Diane's approach has been to uncover the underlying feelings and beliefs that are the root of my reactions and emotions. She helps me to alleviate stress and better focus on what my intentions and goals are and how to best achieve them. She has shown me that when I am where I need to be the work is effortless and joyful. With Diane's help, I have increased productivity (my own as well as my team's), decreased turnover, and achieved greater team effectiveness. These results have come about as a result of the work she has helped me to do on myself.
I am delighted with my experience with Diane. She has enlightened me and the work we do is a gift that has impacted all facets of my life. I would encourage anyone who would like to experience less stress and more success to enlist Diane as a partner in the process. Their work with her will exceed even their highest expectations."
- Robin Hayes, Back Office Manager, Power Marketing & Trading, Fortune 500 Company, Phoenix, AZ |
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