Hear from my Clients- Testimonials for The Real Leader Academy

 

Diane is an exceptional Executive Coach who has helped me navigate some of the most difficult professional challenges that I have endured with both grace and success. Diane is both thoughtful in her delivery and successfully holds her clients accountable to challenging their limiting beliefs that tend to block us from reaching our full potential.

I had the pleasure of working with Diane in both a group and 1:1 setting and I am impressed with her intellect, candor and ability to cut through the noise to connect on a deep, human level. Her training materials are well researched, professionally produced and more importantly relevant and easily approachable.

She is able to really listen to what her clients are saying, and what they are not saying – and address all angles of the preverbally elephants. Her observations are spot-on and help provide an outsider’s view into what potentially can be a skewed reality.

I highly recommend Diane to any C-suiter that wants to take their career to the next level, without losing their soul. It can be done and Diane is enthusiastically the coach that can make it happen.

– Heather Monigan, Senior Director, CSS Partnerships Arm

 

 

“I couldn’t see the alternatives – I was so stuck in thinking things needed to continue the way I had always done them that I couldn’t let in alternative solutions. I learned to step back from that and embrace the things I just couldn’t see – in my personal and professional life.

The Pinocchio Principle Unleashed program was life-altering for me – there wasn’t one area of my life that wasn’t impacted. It’s helped me question things that have been embedded in me my entire life by highlighting what was unconscious to me so that I could work through it.  It was really eye-opening.

The program helped me to pause – I didn’t think I ever had time to stop, and I’ve taken a lot of time in the past few months question what I was believing and whether there is an easier way to do things so that I didn’t go down the same paths that were burning me out. I know that this is just the beginning for me of bringing things to my conscious level and working through challenges as they come up and it’s largely impacted my leadership.

Also – in a time when it would be so easy to be in fear, judgement and anxiety, I have operated in my genius during this time more than ever before at any point in my life. I have you to thank for that and I am truly grateful.”

– Porsha Caddell, Senior Manager, Customer Service Business Planning, Southern California Edison

 

 

“The things Diane has taught us through her coaching and programs have taken on a life of their own in our organization and given rise to some business practices that are helping us to get to the next level of organizational success. Diane has helped us to increase our self-awareness, gain insight into how we could be more effective, take inspired action, and build on our successes as leaders. Now we are finding ways to do that across our entire organization.

We have put several of our people through her Pinocchio Principle Unleashed program, starting with myself and our C level team and we’ve continued to downstream the program through various levels of the organization. It’s been extremely helpful, and the ROI is something I can’t even measure – it’s just exponential.

Thank you so much Diane for assisting to make CACU a better place to work chalked full of balanced, healthy, and motivated people – we have needed you and your skill set and you exceeded expectations for me personally, and more importantly, for the team’s transformation for the better!”

– Pete Pritts, President/CEO, Corporate America Credit Union

 

 

“I’ve really benefitted from the tools and approaches that were taught in The Pinocchio Principle Unleashed program and often found I was able to immediately apply a concept or tool covered in a lesson or a group meeting to something unfolding at work. Learning to let go of needing to control everything as well as my assumptions about what had to be done has allowed me to not only be happier and more motivated, but also much more effective.  I’ve been able to keep myself from falling into traps that used to keep me overextended and I’ve replaced old unconscious ways of working with better communication, prioritization, delegation and daily routines.

Integrating what I’ve learned in the program has also helped me to stay positive and not get pulled down by things around me – and as a result have a beneficial impact on others as well.  I am living my life much more consciously and intentionally both at work and at home and feeling so much happier, even as lines between work and family are becoming increasingly blurred.  I’m thrilled that people in my team have also gone through the program and will continue to do so, because I believe it has helped us to restructure and reinvigorate the way we do business to maximize our strengths and better serve our customers.

– Julie Patrick, Director of Client Services, Employer Advocates

 

 

“What we gained was an appreciation for each other’s communication style, which improved mutual respect. We now have skills to identify that and a shared understanding of how diverse we all are. We learned that our diversity makes us stronger, as long as we understand and respect each other.

I have heard from several on my team that they are using their new skills to try new approaches with their co-workers and having great responses. I think managing a team is so much better when you have these insights into how they work. I also personally liked learning about what to watch out for – pitfalls to avoid.

I would highly recommend the DISC workshop because we felt it was incredibly insightful, accurate and easily shared. We are seeing results already. If the goal is efficiency, this workshop is essential. Our whole office runs more smoothly now.”

– Kimber Lanning, Executive Director, Local First Arizona

 

 

“Hey Diane – I wanted to share with you that yesterday during our staff call, people were asked to share what they got out of the Navigating Change, Challenge and Uncertainty workshop and what their take-aways were. So many people shared how they were putting things you talked about into actions already and how they were being mindful and practicing what they learned. I’m sure you hear this a lot but your work has a much bigger purpose and what you do matters. So much. We greatly appreciate you. ”

– Kayla B, VP Human Resources & Culture (financial industry)