In 2020 Dana and Joel, good friends for 20 years and both high level coaches for over 30 years respectively, began to experiment in sharing top team client work together. They have delightfully discovered a robust synergy in co-working with leadership teams. Their long term developmental friendship lends towards a collaborative rapport that is generative, creative and deeply impactful.

Their mission is working with leaders and leadership teams of purposeful organizations to co-create the conditions in which individuals, teams and the overall organization can thrive, grow and flourish in the context of unprecedented complexity. Dana and Joel together, work like a tuning fork to bring both individuals and teams into greater integrity, authenticity and natural intelligence and therefore greater effectiveness and impact in terms of a lived expression of their (individual and collective) highest aspirations.

The heart of their work is helping to heal fragmentations – within individuals and within teams – and making the invisible visible or making “the invisible useful” (as a client once reflected to them). Typically starting with a real complex challenge in the organization and using a variety of frameworks – most consistently working with polarities – Dana and Joel help teams build deeper trust, learn to grow through conflict, and transform what is invisible (or in the shadows of an organization) into a potent resource. Their work is beyond assessments and maintaining the status quo. Dana and Joel are committed to helping their clients transition to their next order of purpose in the context of the high stakes facing the world today.

Dana and Joel have a shared passion in working with leaders and teams in the natural world, often getting out of the office and taking them into wild settings. They refer to this work as “wayfinding,” in reference to the techniques and navigation methods used by travelers over land and sea in order to find unmarked routes or to navigate unknown territory. They find the aliveness of nature as a mirror helps bring clients more deeply into their own truth, or systems into greater alignment and aliveness – creating the opening for deep transformations that ripple out.

What Dana and Joel have discovered over the years is that when top leaders realize that “the inner game rules the outer game” the work becomes contagious. Leaders become committed to developing themselves and their whole team as they experience the lived result of an environment focused on creating the conditions for all to thrive. 

As Dana says in the video below, their work is most successful and gratifying when the clients take what they have learned and integrate it into their lives and organizational culture, and they are no longer needed as coaches and consultants.