Executive & Leadership Coaching
How understanding your leadership identity from multiple perspectives brings out the best in you—and those you lead.
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A Moment of Reflection
Real leadership begins with honest questions. Take a moment with these.
Do you understand how to demonstrate community-oriented leadership skills?
Are you aware of how your social identities shape your leadership story?
Can you see your leadership identity from multiple perspectives?
Are you able to earn collaborative trust and inspire confidence?
Ready to answer them properly? The self-assessment takes a few minutes and gives Dr. Daves a clear starting point for your work together.
Take the Self-Assessment
About
Dr. John Daves specializes in self-aware leadership development, working with individual leaders, executives, and organizations. His approach helps leaders develop a deeper awareness of who they are and how they show up in their leadership roles.
Through his work, leaders gain the ability to understand themselves from multiple perspectives—strengthening their capacity to lead with clarity, intention, and relational intelligence.
His workshops provide both strategic insight and practical techniques that enable leaders to build meaningful relationships and serve as coaches, educators, mentors, and ambassadors within their organizations.
See your leadership identity from multiple perspectives.
Lead with purpose rooted in self-awareness.
Build trust, dignity, and meaningful relationships.
What I Offer
Practical, transformative work for leaders, teams, and organizations.
01 — Coaching
Personalized coaching designed to help leaders develop self-awareness, strengthen their leadership identity, and navigate complex interpersonal and organizational dynamics.
02 — Speaking
Engaging and transformative sessions that challenge leaders to rethink how they understand themselves and others in the workplace.
03 — Courses
Structured learning programs designed to help individuals and organizations build sustained self-awareness practices over time.
Impact
Leaders describe this work as transformative—creating space for honesty, growth, and meaningful change.
Dr. Daves,
A few weekends ago was my Exeter 5-year reunion. It had me thinking about all that I'm grateful for. And I just want to say that having you as a teacher was, without a doubt, one of the most valuable parts of my high school education.
I'm not super proud of any of the work I submitted to you as a student but that doesn't change the fact that you are one of a handful of teachers at Exeter whose teaching means the most to me. For me to have grown up with the type of privileges that enabled me to occupy spaces like Exeter, it's pretty clear that it would've been easy for me to become a more problematic person had it not been for certain experiences, one of which is the truly critical education you provided me with.
So thank you so much again.
Crying in the first 15 mins… thank you for this day already.
The discussion and training yesterday was truly amazing.
Inspired by the openness, vulnerability, and depth of conversation.
The Outcome
Earn trust and confidence in every room you lead.
Stronger, clearer, more honest conversations across your org.
Cultures grounded in respect, dignity, and shared purpose.
Greater alignment between who you are and how you lead.
Get Started
This work begins with a deeper understanding of who you are—and how you lead others. Share a few details and Dr. Daves will be in touch to start the conversation.
Prefer email? john@john-daves.com
