Dana Schweitzer, MBA, ACC

Discern with Dana

About

As your coach and strategic advisor, I’m here to partner with you as you build your future. This requires mutual presence, trust, and curiosity between each other and — most importantly — between you and your whole self. In one-to-one virtual sessions, we’ll explore powerful models for leadership and growth together. Are you ready to step into embodied leadership? Then let’s connect!

What brought me to coaching?
  From my earliest memories, looking forward has shaped my perspective. Eyes and thoughts on the next milestone, the horizon, the future. Other than my genuine affection for vintage music and media, I’m not one to dwell on the past — but I do try to learn from it! Our lived experiences can often provide the deepest insights. 

My own experience as a working parent has also shaped my path. The exquisite tension of balancing career with family is very relatable. For example, I completed my MBA while also working full-time. By seeking support, I had the fortune of working with many fantastic coaches over the years. I have deep appreciation for the coaching skills of Bliss Aime, Karen Carlsen, Antonia Dodge, Linda Pino, Sarah Reilly, and Karen Walrond. Best of the best!

With nearly 5 years of coaching experience, I’m as committed as ever to lifelong learning. Overall, I have 15+ years of experience facilitating programs and partnerships in sustainability and continuing education with start-ups, universities, and non-profit organizations. My professional journey evolved alongside senior leaders: institute directors, entrepreneurs, C-suite execs, authors, — even a MacArthur genius. You’re in expert hands!

What are my qualifications?  My professional credentials include:


Contact me here
for a free 25-minute roadmap consultation. After we chat, you can choose a strategy package that best suits your needs and timeline. It’s my honor to coach brilliant clients from all walks of life. 

Packages

Chemistry Call - Your Questions, Answered!

Take the first step. Launch your inner leader.
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More to Pour ☕

Get together. Get grounded. Get inspired.
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Testimonials

“Dana’s superpower is her incisive wit and uncanny ability to read a situation, allowing her to instantly strip away the noise of a high-pressure environment and provide the sharp, logic-driven perspective required to be decisive.

Dana helped me successfully bridge the transition from a competitive Ph.D. program to diverse professional sectors. Dana provided the strategic framework necessary to navigate the unique cultures of start-ups, state government agencies, and large-scale corporate organizations. Her guidance was essential in decoding the distinct organizational dynamics and shifting expectations inherent to each sector.”

- Duoc, Organizational Psychologist

“Dana’s superpowers are wisdom and grounding. And somehow always finding both at the exact right moment!

Dana brings depth of experience in workplace dynamics, leadership, coaching and systems. She just has a way of helping me see things with a new frame. She’s helped me connect patterns and spot opportunities I had been missing, even after working with other professionals. The biggest shift is that I now regularly ask myself better, more honest questions about what I want and where I’m going. That alone has changed how I lead and make decisions.”

- Stacy, Research Operations Leader

“Dana’s superpower is her ability to cut through noise in complex situations to develop clear and simple paths toward your goal.

Dana’s coaching helped me to get a MASSIVE head start in my career. It was clear that she cared not only about my impact or success in my job, but also deeply about my growth as an early-career scientist and as a person. She played an integral role in my first professional job after my postdoctoral studies. Her expertise also helped me secure competitive research funding from multiple entities.”

- Elmin, Research Scientist

“Dana’s work is supportive and deeply illuminating!

I sought coaching for self-discovery and growth. Dana helped me understand and navigate dynamics in challenging relationships and see a clearer path forward. She has a remarkable ability to listen, synthesize, discern and surface complex human dynamics using multiple lenses and tools.

- Kim, Fundraising Director

“Dana’s superpower is kind pragmatism. Many people, when giving advice, have either tried to give me "hard truths" or tried to just cheer me up with false optimism. Dana does an incredible job of practicing empathy with realistic strategizing.

Dana’s coaching helped me understand which skills I'm competitive in and how to leverage those skills in applying for jobs. After undergrad, I felt overwhelmed and a bit rudderless. Our sessions provided me the direction and clarity to commit my energies where they mattered most! She helped me identify my career goals and connected me with people in my field to help me achieve them.

- Jacob, Program Manager

“Dana’s superpower is illuminating what aligns with your long-term goals. Case in point, years ago Dana helped me pivot to a totally new career path with a SaaS start-up.

Then and now, Dana is the coach high-performing leaders look to when making crucial decisions. She helps bring into focus calculated risks, likely outcomes, and contingencies. She also highlights the self-trust every leader needs in order to earn deep respect — from the end user to the C-suite.”

- Senior Product Manager

“Dana’s superpower is her ability to ask the right questions. With her help, I was able to dig deeper into my career goals. I came away with a better sense of my own strengths and a clearer vision for the future.

I’ve known Dana as both a coach and a professional colleague. In both roles, her ability to get directly to the root of a challenge is what makes her exceptional at finding solutions and mapping out alternative paths forward. Her skills helped me clarify my goals for graduate school and beyond.

- Graduate Research Assistant

“Dana’s superpower is meeting you where you are. At different stages of our work, Dana has offered writing prompts, media resources, cognitive reframing questions, whole-body activities, and more, depending on my capacity at the time.

Dana’s coaching helped me prioritize my time and energy, whether it was specific tasks, juggling obligations, or exploring new strategies to shift perspective in my own internal priorities. As a high-masking AuDHD business owner, decision fatigue is a frequent drain on my mental capacity. The direct coaching support Dana provided enabled me to reclaim hours of mental calm. The strategies she introduced me to have provided long-term, self-directed support in managing my time and energy.

- Nolan, Small Business Co-Owner

“Dana’s superpowers are her ability to future cast and her trustworthiness.

One of the things I appreciate most about working with Dana is the personal and practical application of coaching skills and methods. Her prompts and feedback are personalized to my situation, motivations, and personality. She’s keenly aware of my growth edges and empowers me to move forward via self-reflection. She also reminds me to rest and reset!

- Research Project Director

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