Denise Hall, CPCC, PCC, CTPC

Senior Consultant

Denise is an ICF Professional Certified Coach with more than three decades of corporate executive and entrepreneurial experience. She helps senior-level technology leaders who are leading teams through change and complexity to remain creative, positive, and goal-oriented. Denise has worked with executives at every stage of business – from start-ups, turnarounds, high-growth companies, mature companies who are re-inventing themselves and plant closures. She brings heat and heart and a provocative, engaging style to help her clients uncover blind spots and identify opportunities for improvement. She coaches leaders to improve mindset, engagement, and translate assessment feedback to practical action plans for improved business results. Her clients appreciate her insight and humor to build trust, ramp awareness, and invite change.

Background: In her twenties, Denise was promoted to management over her peers and she experienced the toughest year of her life. This experience launched a lifelong passion to understand both the art and science of leadership. Denise has led learning and organizational development teams at the executive level with positive results. She led succession planning and key talent management efforts for financial services and technology organizations. For seventeen years, she has successfully consulted with Fortune 500 companies to engage their workforce in growing and improving the business. She creates a safe place for clients to ramp self-awareness, reflect on core values, and be “at-choice” in their professional and personal life.

Career Highlights

  • For a Fortune 500 Company: Established a coaching practice to accelerate the development of its high-potential leaders.
  • National Corporation: Worked closely with a CEO to customize an initiative to assimilate acquired leaders and to transform organizational work culture.
  • For a Large Higher-Education Public Institutions: Coached MBA students for two universities and received the ICF PRISM award for coaching excellence.
  • For a Private Higher-Education Institution: Led a corporate university and received ASTD’s BEST award for top 125 training organizations.

Areas of Specialization

  • Leadership Effectiveness
  • Team Effectiveness
  • Women in Leadership
  • Ramping Confidence
  • Assessment Center Experience
  • Organizational Development
  • Instructional Design
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Taming the Saboteur Voice

Unique Attributes

  • Past-President of the Georgia Chapter of the International Coaching Federation (ICF)
  • Studied at the University of Paris and Salford University, Manchester, England
  • Featured in a National Geographic Documentary entitled “China’s Lost Girls”
  • Plays hand chimes in church choir
  • Lives on the Atlantic Ocean!
  • Certifications: The Leadership Circle Profile, Hogan Leadership Series, MBTI, and DiSC and Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team.

  • Hobbies

    Golf, football, beach combing, Standup Comedy

  • Food

    Brie and fig, pasta, anything sweet

  • Band

    The English Patient

  • Movie

    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Pretty Woman

  • Super Power

    Building Confidence

  • TV Show

    Yellowstone. I am a Kevin Costner fan.

  • Book

    Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine. I do a lot of work with saboteur voice.

  • Quote

    “What a beautiful day the Lord hath made, let’s rejoice and be glad in it.” I like to make the most of every day.

Consultant Insights

  • My ideal client is someone [an organization] that:

    is curious and ready to learn.

  • The highlight of my career so far has been:

    Becoming a solopreneur.

  • My superpower as a coach is:

    to bring both heat and heart.

  • My philosophy on life is:

    let’s make it a fun ride.

  • I hope my legacy is one of:

    leaving a lasting impact through compassion and competence.

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