For Leaders
Some leaders arrive here overwhelmed, wondering how it got this hard and looking for solid ground. Others arrive experienced and accomplished, but facing something they have not encountered before and would rather not face alone.
Dr. Dana works with both. Whatever brought you here, the starting point is the same: you deserve more than generic advice and borrowed frameworks. You deserve support that meets you where you actually are.
Thriving at Work
Work has become something to survive rather than something that energizes you.
You are competent, you are committed, and yet something is missing. Maybe it has been missing for a while.
Thriving at Work is a series of resources and live virtual courses designed for leaders who are ready to change that. The learning is grounded in research, facilitated by Dr. Dana, and built around the honest realities of working in organizations that are harder than anyone admits. What makes it different is how the learning happens. Rather than working through scenarios that feel uncomfortably close to your current situation, Dr. Dana uses sailing as the backdrop for case studies and group work. You do not need to know anything about sailing. You might learn a little by accident. More importantly, the distance from your daily environment creates the space to think about it more clearly.
Free
The 20-Day Happiness Challenge
This is where most people start. Free, practical, and built around one small action per day for twenty days. Each activity is grounded in the science of what actually improves workplace relationships and engagement. No grand gestures. No major commitments. Just twenty days of doing things a little differently and seeing what shifts.
Open Enrollment Courses
Finding Your Happiness at Work
This is the full course for leaders who want the science and the depth behind the challenge. You will define what workplace happiness actually means for you, identify the factors that influence it, and develop practical strategies to build resilience, cultivate a growth mindset, and approach your work with more intention. Not positive thinking. Research-based tools that hold up in difficult environments.
Helping Your Team Work Better Together
Most team problems are not skill problems. They are safety problems. When people do not feel safe to speak up, take risks, or admit mistakes, performance suffers in ways that are hard to diagnose and easy to misattribute. This course is grounded in the science of psychological safety and designed to help you understand your role in shaping your team’s culture, improve communication, encourage inclusion, and build an environment where people can do their best work.
Additional courses in development. Join the waitlist to be notified when new sessions open.
Coaching
You have done the reading. You have led teams, navigated politics, and made hard calls.
And yet something about where you are right now is not resolving the way it should. A decision you keep circling. A relationship that has broken down. A transition that is harder than you expected. Or simply the weight of leading in an environment that is more complex and more draining than anyone prepared you for.
Coaching with Dr. Dana is not about learning new frameworks. It is about thinking more clearly, deciding more confidently, and leading with more intention in the specific situation you are actually in. Engagements are focused, honest, and grounded in both behavioral science and real organizational experience. Most run three to six months, structured around what you need rather than a fixed curriculum.
Leadership Coaching
For leaders who want ongoing support to lead more effectively.
Not because something is broken, but because the complexity of the role demands more than most leaders give themselves space to think through. This is a dedicated space to examine your assumptions, stress-test your thinking, and develop the kind of self-awareness that makes the difference between a leader who manages their environment and one who is managed by it.
Transitional Coaching
For leaders moving into a new role, a new organization, or a new chapter.
Transitions are where leaders are most exposed and most capable of real growth. The decisions made in the first months of a transition shape everything that follows. Having a thinking partner through that window is not a luxury. For most leaders it is the highest-return investment they can make in themselves.
Critical Moments Coaching
For leaders facing a specific situation that requires clear thinking under pressure.
A personnel decision with no good options. A relationship with a superior that has become untenable. A moment where the stakes are high and the right path forward is genuinely unclear. This work is focused and time-limited, typically two to three sessions, aimed at one thing: helping you see the situation clearly enough to act.
The Book
The Storms of Leadership
Dr. Dana is writing a book for leaders who already know the textbook version of leadership is not the whole story. If that sounds like you, get on the list.