"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." 
Alvin Toffler

Personal and Life Coaching

Coaches, once considered a luxury for Executives, are now being hired by individuals at all levels. Anyone who is ready to make a change personally or professionally -individuals, entrepreneurs, business owners, and corporate leaders work with a coach. Coaching can be the best investment you can make in YOU!

What is Coaching?

Coaching is a partnership designed to help YOU achieve success, by YOUR definition of success. You will co-create a program based on your goals and work together to overcome barriers to success. The coaching partnership is ongoing over a period of time to support you in your desire for change and movement toward your outcomes.

What Is Worked On?

Coaching helps you:

• Attain work and personal life balance
• Make decisions and design strategies
• Handle business or personal problems
• Increase communication effectiveness
• Learn how you are perceived
• Make transitions-life or career
• Train, develop and manage staff
• Manage projects with tight time constraints
• Identify limiting beliefs
• Dramatically improve your results
• Have more FUN in life!

How Does Coaching Work?

A coach is professionally trained to ask questions and help you see yourself more clearly, to give you feedback more objectively, and to help you leverage your strengths and manage your challenges. A key to the coaching partnership is the synergy created-more is accomplished by the team than you would alone. Structure is provided by the coach. I support you and hold you accountable so you think bigger, take more action, and hang in there until you reach your desired outcome. I bring professional expertise on the behavior change process and guide you through the stumbling blocks or challenges to attain your goals.

What's the Coaching Process?

1. Coaching is delivered in regular sessions, usually weekly, by telephone and/or in person - your choice.
2. We identify your coaching goals and develop a plan that can include one or more personal assessments that help you "know thyself" better.
3. If desired, use a 360 degree feedback instrument to learn how your co-workers, boss and direct reports see your behavior and communication style.
4. You bring an agenda to each session-what do YOU want to accomplish. I help you focus on the priorities and most relevant issues, solve problems, make decisions, create and leverage opportunities, minimize risk and CELEBRATE success.
5. You leave each session with an action item list to keep you moving along between sessions.

Get to know Diane Dean, MA, MCC

Diane has a desirable combination of experience to be a coach-business acumen and experience plus psychology, learning and human dynamics. As a Master Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation, Diane has been coaching since 1984. Diane has been chosen to be a member of the internal coaching team for Booz Allen Hamilton Consulting. She specializes in Academic and Personal Coaching with a focus on the Manager or Executive. Her specialized training in NeuroLinguistic Programming training (since 1976) adds tools to facilitate rapid growth and change desired by her clients.

Business background

Diane is Founder and Principal of The Learner's Edge, an international coaching and consulting firm specializing in interpersonal communication and learning in the business environment and in education. She has more than 20 years in consulting, coaching and development for Fortune 1000 companies, smaller private companies, law enforcement and educational organizations. Her expertise in interpersonal communication and Executive Coaching allow her to facilitate rapid and successful change for clients. She is a recognized expert in how people learn, which enables her to short cut the time it takes people to learn new ways to approach situations that may be delaying their personal or organization development.

Areas of Expertise

Her consulting experience includes engagements focusing on change management, executive and management coaching, career management, communication, leadership development, presentation skills and meeting facilitation. Some of her assignments were with Square D, Weyerhaeuser, Oryx, Ernst and Young, Temple Inland Financial Services, Active Power, Southwest Airlines and Fulton County Public Safety Training Center (police training center) as well as numerous educational organizations and schools.

Diane's corporate experience includes management positions as Senior Principal in Change Management for a technology solutions company, Manager of Curriculum Development for a training and development organization, and Senior Consultant for Career Management and Executive Coaching in a global Human Resources Consulting firm. Diane has presented at conferences nationally and internationally, including The American Society for Training and Development.

• People Relationship Coaching
• Mentoring
• Leadership Development
• Train the Trainer
• Career Planning and Decision-making
• Executive Assessment and Coaching
• Management Team Building
• Program Design and Development
• Communication Effectiveness

Education

Diane is a graduate of the University of Houston and Montclair University Graduate School with a Masters degree in Psychology. She is a Master Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and has served as adjunct faculty in the Business School of Southwest Texas State University and St. Edward's University for Business Communication and Human Resource Management for over four years.

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