Helping professionals navigate the path towards improving performance, achieving inclusive behavior, and finding a healthy work-life balance.
Together, we will co-creatively embark on a courageous journey.
Professional Coaching for Inclusive Leadership Development
Take on the challenge of creating a culture of belonging where diversity is embraced as a value and strength.
Inclusion is not an add-on.
Coaching focuses on a holistic approach to successfully enable inclusive behavior through self-awareness and change strategies with the understanding that inclusion is not nor should be viewed or treated as an add-on to leadership. Inclusion is an integral part of your being and must shine through every facet of your life.
Inclusion done a different way—an authentic way!
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Your coach, Dania Rivas, takes the coach approach to helping transform individuals, organizations, and social systems. From day one, a partnership is cultivated between the client and coach to serve and achieve the client's mission, vision, and purpose around inclusion.
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Consulting creates dependency. Coaching creates capability!
Chances are, you’ve worked with a DEI consultant in the past and wonder why nothing really changed. Here’s why: Consultants tell you what to do and come up with solutions for you, creating dependency for change. Nothing has changed because YOU haven’t changed.
On the other hand, Coaches empower you to take charge of your learning and development through a series of in-depth sessions where coach and client discover the origins of biased and discriminatory behavior that make other people feel like they don’t belong.
Coaching transforms and shifts behavior that no longer serves you and allows your leadership to come alive in a new and meaningful way—an inclusive way.
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In our rapidly changing society—demographically, environmentally, and culturally—it's essential to adapt and navigate these shifts through an inclusive lens. Diversity is a reality; inclusion is a choice. Dania will guide and support you in making the right choice by leading inclusively in your personal and professional pursuits.
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Dania is skilled at holding a past, present, and future focus by creating a “container” or space that allows clients to unearth and create awareness around their bias and the origins of behavior, which then enables clients to dismantle beliefs that are no longer serving their leadership and step into a new and empowering awareness of what it means to be authentically inclusive.
You do not need to be fixed. You hold all the wisdom and answers deep inside of you, and working with Dania can help illuminate what you have to show the world.
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Change is inevitable! It’s only a matter of when. Since you’re here, I’m guessing you’re ready. You don’t have to go at it alone. I partner with you to support your inclusive journey and empower you to step into your fierce courage.
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At My Coach, Dania will challenge and help empower you to develop solutions through a co-creative process.
Sad to say, but Dania will even encourage you to leave at some point because she will educate and provide you with the necessary skills and tools to lead change rather than depend on someone else to drive change.
How My Coach Defines Inclusion:
A transformative process that consciously creates environments that recognize, utilize, and value the diverse wisdom, culture, and perspectives of individuals and communities, all working together for the common purpose of healing ourselves, society, and inevitably, our Earth.
Your Coach, Dania, is an ICF-credentialed coach & some!
Just about anyone can call themselves a coach. But not many can call themselves an ICF credentialed coach.
Professional Certified Coach (PCC)—certified by The International Coaching Federation (ICF). ICF Credentials are awarded to professional coaches who have met stringent education and experience requirements and have demonstrated a thorough understanding of the coaching competencies that set the standard in the profession.
“My Coach helped me grow as a leader.”
“I had the pleasure of working with Dania for about 4 months. In our first session, she outlined her approach to coaching and how it differs from therapy or other coaching approaches. Throughout our time together, she stayed consistent and aligned, circling back to core values and helping me define what mine are. I appreciate how she never pushed me into anything or told me what to do but instead gave me the tools I needed to define my values, which I will utilize when making important decisions. I would highly recommend Dania as an empathetic, professional, thoughtful career coach.”
“My experience with Dania has been transformational. Under her guidance, I’ve discovered the power of reclaiming my story and recognizing the common thread that ties together my past experiences, helping me to uncover my core values that have consistently driven me forward. This newfound self-awareness has grounded me in my authentic self, providing a strong foundation for personal growth.
Dania also showed me how to incorporate leadership into my work conversations effectively. She taught me to take the initiative in structuring discussions, inquire about others’ perspectives, and ensure clarity to prevent misunderstandings. This approach has significantly improved communication at work, allowing me to build stronger professional relationships.
A defining moment of our coaching sessions was when Dania encouraged me to define my own vision of leadership. For me, leadership now means empowering others to collaborate effectively in pursuit of a shared goal. This clear understanding of my leadership philosophy has not only improved my leadership style but has also positively impacted my team dynamics in my work environments and projects. In sum, Dania has been instrumental in my personal and professional growth, and I am immensely grateful for her guidance and support.”
“My coaching journey with Dania changed my life. As a young professional woman of color, I have worked with coaches and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives before, but this experience was different in all the right ways. Dania skillfully guided me through a highly co-creative process that renewed my connection with my values and ultimately rekindled my inner leader and imagination. If you are ready to do the transformative internal work, work with Dania. Through her uniquely sustainable approach, you will get back all you put in, and so much more.”
“Working with Dania has been a dream! Our work has improved my understanding of DEI issues in so many ways. I started working with Dania to increase my ability to affect DEI initiatives in the workplace and only had a faint idea about everything involved. Dania challenged me to do extremely difficult personal work around my own racial identity and provided helpful theory and resources on dealing with specific workplace issues in ways that, in turn, challenged my corporation to think more deeply about DEI. I’m so grateful for our work together. ”