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"I enthusiastically endorse Deanne J. Idar as an Executive Coach and mentor. Deanne brings a unique synergy of empathy, authenticity and positivity coupled with extensive professional and academic experience that continues to challenge and inspire me. Her bold observations and powerful questioning have helped me recognize limiting patterns, create solutions, access greater resources and revolutionize my thinking and actions. Deanne understands complex business relationships and how the human dynamic component can significantly impact organizational development. Her true passion and genuine gift for mentoring allows her to manage sensitivity while concurrently providing candid feedback and promoting accountability. All of this has kept me focused on personal and professional growth and helped me be a better person. If you are ready to make permanent, lasting change and willing to boldly go where you haven’t gone before, I can assure you that partnering with Deanne will yield positive results.”
~ Kim Cantergiani, Life, Business & Executive Coach
Testimonials
"I had been trying to reach very challenging career goals for a few years with only little success. I thought I knew what I needed to do but was really struggling with implementation. I sought out Deanne as a mentor and a coach to help guide me to achieve my goals. Never did I believe that my professional and personal life would transform in such a positive way. Deanne really helped me to put my thoughts into a truly positive and proactive approach. Through Deanne’s guidance and coaching skills I have begun to look at obstacles from many different viewpoints, and develop possible solutions I would never have thought of before. Deanne’s tireless efforts have had an impact not only on me but they have benefited my coworkers, family and friends in my daily interactions. Overall, I am now a much more well-rounded individual with the skills and confidence to succeed in achieving my aspirations."
~David E. Chavez, Ph.D. Chemist
"Since the beginning of the coaching with Deanne, I've received guided transitions from co-worker to leadership within the parameters of my individual program. My action planning was unique to meet immediate needs without a cookie cutter approach. The joint action planning was respectful, empathic, and authentic. During the coaching hours, leadership content knowledge was delivered, skills were experienced with guided reflection and implementation was reassessed to increase or strengthen leadership practices. The coaching has been a confidence building experience. I have and will continue to recommend the coaching hours to anyone seeking career improvements. I have received more than I knew I needed!"
~ Debra L. Martens, Director
“Deanne Idar is an exceptional leadership coach who is passionate about helping you improve your leadership and interpersonal skills. By working with Deanne, I was able to approach difficult staffing situations with confidence, knowing I would handle the situations professionally, with humility, and achieve the desired outcome. Using her extensive technical background, detailed focus, and forward looking mentality, she worked with me over the course of one year challenging my weaknesses and expanding my leadership skills. Technical skills are important but the human dynamic is where many managers fall short resulting in a path of destruction and career stagnation. Work with Deanne to identify and overcome your weak areas and gain the respect of all staff that work around you and become known as a true leader that inspires.”
~Jonathan E. Morgan, Group Leader
"I would recommend Deanne to anyone who needs more direction in their life. When I was faced with uncertainty or a crisis in my day-to-day professional experience, she provided the positive encouragement I needed. I was truly inspired by her positive impact, it allowed me to learn more about who I am. The time invested has been well worthwhile."
~ Charlene Martinez, Executive Administrator
"Deanne is an excellent professional coach. Working with her has helped me with my professional development, both in dealing with ongoing challenges and identifying future directions and goals. After starting coaching sessions with her I have noticed the benefits and seen positive impact in a very tangible way. Deanne has an amazing positive attitude and energy that is highly motivating, and she is also very analytical and a good listener. With her guidance I have developed my leadership skills, become more efficient at work, and expanded my professional network. I highly recommend Deanne as a coach and mentor."
~Fredrik Tovesson, Ph.D. Nuclear Physics
"Deanne is an outstanding mentor and coach. She listens deeply and responds in creative and very relevant ways that can bring me to conclusions that open my mind and push me in fantastic new directions. She is insightful and a master at illuminating what are core issues. I always learn something about myself when we work together. I credit her with centering me in critical ways that have improved my self-confidence and leadership. Time spent working with her is an outstanding value; she motivates me toward true excellence, and it is always a pleasure!"
~Miriam Blake, Knowledge Management Expert
"Deanne is a dynamic, energetic, positive mentor and coach with a wide range of knowledge in career matters. I met Deanne during my transition from graduate school into a postdoctoral position. Deanne helped me hone in on my priorities and career goals as I transitioned into my new role as a young professional. With Deanne's help, I have developed invaluable skills in networking, maintaining work-life balance, successfully communicating in the workplace, time management, and priority management. In addition, Deanne has challenged me to evaluate and embrace my personal strengths in order to create a work environment aimed for success. With the variety of resources Deanne has provided me, I have a solid foundation on which to build my future career."
~ Angela C. Olson, Ph.D. Chemist, Postdoc
"Career and leadership coaching with Deanne Idar has helped me focus on, realize and exercise leadership skills that have directly impacted my career in exciting and challenging new ways. Identification of short and long term career visions and goals has helped me to discover common ground between personal and professional endeavors in order to strike a better work-life balance. With Deanne’s guidance, I have become skilled at making smarter and better decisions at work, winning back internal constituents, and developing networks and networking skills. In addition, I have learned to save time, be more efficient, and build consensus faster and more inclusively than ever before. Career and leadership coaching has resulted in new discovery of effective solutions to my most pressing issues and exploration of current professional career challenges. I enthusiastically recommend Deanne Idar as a career and leadership coach, it has re-energized my career."
~ Darcie Dennis-Koller, Shock Physicist
"Dr. Deanne Idar brings to professional coaching her superb interpersonal and technical skills, as well as her perceptive understanding of organizations, businesses, and human interactions. If you want to creatively explore and resolve issues in the workplace that are hindering your success and happiness, your best path forward is to engage Deanne as your coach. Her approach to working with clients is personalized for their needs and goals, and she is passionately dedicated to helping others. Whether you are at the beginning of your career or close to retirement, whether you are a working scientist or a seasoned manager, you will benefit from Deanne’s skills and wisdom and you will discover new paths forward, better habits to develop, improved understanding of organizations and individuals therein, and innovative ways to effect positive changes."
~Barbara DeVolder, Staff Scientist
“Deanne has all of the finest qualities of a mentor: she is patient, kind, and gracious, but what distinguishes her from the many other mentors is her passion for helping and teaching others. I first met Deanne when I began interning within the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2011. Although she was not my supervisor, and was in no way obligated to help, Deanne went out of her way to make my experience as an intern invaluable. Deanne immediately distinguished herself as someone who wanted to inspire others to do their best work and to learn from that process. Most individuals in a busy office would have gone about their daily routine without paying attention to an intern, but Deanne fostered an inclusive environment and encouraged me to solicit input. Since then, Deanne has continued to share a wealth of knowledge and career advice from her work at Los Alamos. She is thoughtful and carefully listens to concerns but is not afraid to put you on the spot. It is this delicate balance that Deanne has mastered that helps individuals to grow professionally. I feel very fortunate to have worked with Deanne and am proud to call her my mentor. Deanne sets herself far apart from all other mentors and is truly in a class of her own.”
~Michelle Shevin-Coetzee, GWU Student Intern, OSD
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