Debbie Daniels
Executive Coach

Advancing Leadership Institute

Email Debbie

Debbie Daniels is a dynamic leadership and executive coach with a well-earned reputation for inspiring powerful results. Her effectiveness is the culmination of over 30 years of executive and organizational development experience.  In addition to one-on-one coaching, Debbie’s work with teams encompasses the domains of leadership, mastery, capacity building, and life design. She is also a seasoned facilitator helping wealth succession planning with high net-worth families.  Her client roster includes executives from corporate business, finance, law, higher education, government, and academia. Her work builds upon her philosophy that leaders are most effective when they are best able to express themselves authentically and fully in their professions, and to be able to use their gifts, talents, and competencies to make significant life contributions.

Debbie’s work uses strategies drawn from a variety of discourses, including communications, psychology, systems theory, and ontological and somatic coaching. This unique synthesis offers clients the chance to observe issues from numerous perspectives, providing opportunities for new thinking and creative action. Debbie’s academic preparation includes a Masters in Social Work specializing in group dynamics and therapy, and post-graduate credentialing in counseling, personal development, and coaching.  Debbie has achieved three coaching certifications, through the International Coaching Federation, The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara, and the Strozzi Institute. She also holds advanced credentialing by the National Association of Social Work.

Debbie lives in Edmonds, Washington with her husband and her two grown children. She is a dedicated yoga student, an avid outdoor adventurer, and an enthusiastic traveler.