Coaching Services

Are you looking to overcome a challenge or take on a new role?

Executive coaching can help you maximize your personal and professional potential. As a mom, scientist, founder, and athlete, Dina Venezky, PhD partners with you to discover the change you want to make and how your strengths can lead you to greater fulfillment in all areas of your life.

The 60-minute sessions are directed by what you want to accomplish. Reach out to dina@sparklingleaders.com for more information.

Events

April 9 at 1 pm Pacific (8 pm GMT): Group Coaching Session Register Here (same link for April 9 and 30)

April 18 at 1 pm Pacific (8 pm GMT): Webinar on How to Make A Change Register Here

April 30 at 9 am Pacific (4 pm GMT): Group Coaching Session Register Here (same link for April 9 and 30)

May 14 at 10 am Pacific (5 pm GMT): Webinar on How to Flourish and Thrive Register Here

Plus 2 individual pro bono coaching sessions: Register Here

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Previous Events

Maximize Potential by Mining for Gold SWE Vegas Talk on Friday, Feb 23 at 3:30 pm

2024 Group coaching sessions:

Register: https://tidycal.com/spkl/group-coaching-sessions

  • Mar 14 at 10 am Pacific, 11 am Mountain, Noon Central, and 1 pm Eastern

  • Feb 28 at 10 am Pacific, 11 am Mountain, Noon Central, and 1 pm Eastern

  • Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 2 pm Mountain, 3 pm Central, and 4 pm Eastern on Jan 11, Jan 18, Jan 25, Feb 1, and Feb 8

Practice Talk on Maximizing Potential on Thursday, Feb 22 at 9 am Pacific, 10 am Mountain, 11 am Central, and noon Eastern Register: https://tidycal.com/spkl/maximizing-potential

In 2023 we ran complimentary Monthly Networking Sessions

Below is information about the sessions along with links to the blog posts with resources for each topic. If you would like additional information or to have us host one of these topics, reach out using the contact form.

Dec 5, 2023, at 11 am PT/2 pm ET, Celebrate and Plan. How do you celebrate the year and plan for the future? Join us to celebrate the things we are proud of and plan for what we want to do more of and less of.

Nov 14, 2023, at 11 am PT/2 pm ET, Coaching for Intentional Change. Coaching can help us maximize potential in ourselves and others. Join us to examine frameworks for moving toward our ideal selves.

Oct 11, 2023, Levity: Your New Superpower! Humor is a potent medicine and can ameliorate many situations. Join us to explore ways to add levity to your day.

Sept 19, 2023, Overcome the Perfection Trap! Explored adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism. Best practices to resist the pressure to be perfect so you can focus on what matters most.

Aug 1, 2023, Bring out the Best in Others:  How to Give Effective Feedback. How to partner with your reports and frame your feedback so they can hear your positive intentions. Included easy feedback delivery frameworks, preparation materials, and reflections.

Jul 11, 2023, The Gift of Feedback: How to Receive and Evaluate it Effectively. Feedback triggers, types, impact, and recovery. How to ask for the type of feedback you need and explain how you would like to receive it.

Jun 6, 2023, Build Your Power Script! How to Introduce Yourself, Pitch Ideas, and Influence. Frameworks for developing concise introductions, communicating issues, and convincing others you are the expert.

May 2, 2023, Understand Power and Build Confidence. Discussion of what we can adopt from a series of proven techniques for gaining power, with content from 7 Rules of Power by Jeffrey Pfeffer, Acting with Power by Deborah Gruenfeld, and Selfless by Brian Lowery.

Apr 4, 2023, Navigating Discomfort to Make Better Decisions and Do Hard Things, with content from Do Hard Things by Steve Magness. We discussed how realistic expectations increase confidence and strategies for navigating discomfort.

Mar 8, 2023, Society of Women Engineers Advance Learning Center Webinar, The Gift of Feedback: How to Give it and Receive It. Your ability to ask for the feedback you need can make a large difference in achieving your career goals. This session explores best practices for managers and individual contributors to ask for, give, and receive feedback. You will learn to: recognize how feedback can be biased, practice asking for and receiving feedback, and develop approaches for giving specific feedback.

Mar 7, 2023, Fail Fast and Iterate with content from Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric that Matters by Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn. We discussed how to create an innovation mindset for your life and work.

Tues, Feb 7, Understanding Emotions For Success with content from Lisa Feldman Barrett’s book, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. As leaders, we want to project realistic optimism and be able to interpret others’ needs. Reading behaviors can provide valuable clues. But, how well can we map behaviors to emotions and needs? We discussed how the theory of constructed emotion can help us build relationships.

Jan 19, Seven Sisters Presentation with Chavie Sharfman Sosa, Career Kickoff 2023: How to find and land the role you want

Wed, Jan 11, Life Is Too Short To Spend On Opportunities That Are No Longer Worthwhile with content from Annie Duke’s book, Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away. Are you looking to make a change in the new year? We discussed how saying no can free your time to reach your goals and allow you to focus on the things that matter most to you.

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Custom Offerings for Organizations

Virtual and in-person sessions are available on a number of topics. Depending on the content, sessions can run for 45 min to a full day. Reach out for session descriptions and to talk about how they can be customized to meet your needs.

Selected list of session topics.

  • Giving and receiving feedback

  • Building inclusive high-performing teams

  • Creating supportive environments (includes psychological safety)

  • Understanding values and motivation (personal, team members, and teams)

  • Developing quality standards to increase team member autonomy

  • Influencing through story

  • Executive presence

  • The power of questions for strategic change

  • Perspective-taking and biases

  • Neurodiversity and inclusion in the workplace