About
Dawn
Proven transformational coach, facilitator, and trainer, certified in Results Coaching™ by the NeuroLeadership Institute. Experienced in helping professionals break through boundaries to access their full personal and professional potential through individual and group coaching, training and development. Dawn has developed and facilitated workshops focused on a variety of leadership related topics, including emotional intelligence, psychological safety, conscious communication, ethical leadership, networking, implicit bias, and respect at work.
Dawn spent a total of eighteen years at Fortune 500 companies, including leadership roles in labor and employment law, diversity and inclusion, ethics and workplace culture. Prior to that, she was an attorney at a large international law firm for seven years. Each of these roles afforded Dawn the opportunity to coach, train, and counsel employees from the mailroom to the C-suite on a variety of issues that inform her coaching and training today.
Organizations
Big Brothers Big Sisters, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, 2018 - Present
Big Brother Big Sister Beyond School Walls Program, Big Sister, 2016 - 2020
SDCBA Diversity Fellowship Program, Founding Committee Member, 2009 - 2018
San Diego Lawyers Club, Co-Chair of the Gender Equity Committee, 2023-Present
Areas of Expertise
• Leadership Coaching & Development
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Workplace Culture
• Ethics & Compliance
• Labor & Employment Law
Regarded by leaders, teams, and coachees alike as a trusted advisor with a rare degree of personal warmth, Dawn quickly establishes psychological safety to tap into the roots of motivation and engagement and apply highly specialized coaching skills to elevate the human experience.
Dawn’s coaching strategy was shaped by twenty-five years of legal practice, most recently as Assistant General Counsel – Ethics & Workplace Culture for an investor-owned utility. In that role, Dawn developed and implemented cultural change initiatives focused on company-wide improvements in psychological safety and accountability. Dawn spent a total of eighteen years in corporate America, including leadership roles in labor and employment law, diversity and inclusion, ethics and workplace culture. Prior to that, she was an attorney at a large international law firm for seven years. Each of these roles afforded Dawn the opportunity to coach, train, and counsel employees from the mailroom to the C-suite on a variety of issues that inform her coaching and training today.
Education
J.D., University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, 1999
B.A., Spanish & History, University of California at Davis (with honors), 1996
Certifications