
Coaching, Culture, Facilitation, Training
Plus Animals!
About Me
Janine Davis, MCC
Who I Am As a Coach
Plus, horses, wolves and lions!
Hi! I'm Janine. I'm an Executive Coach and Facilitator with Evolution.
I live in the intersection point between science and human experience. My superpower is combining these to support leaders in realizing their purpose, objectives, potential, and vision. My approach blends organizational best practices with depth in order to yield sustainable change. I’ve been trained in neuroscience and have a deep understanding of the emotional and physiological processes required for transformation. Most leaders I know are in constant GO mode. They live in their heads and function through action. Coaching lets leaders step back, take a breath, and gain the perspective necessary to create new ways of thinking, feeling, being and behaving.
In addition to 1:1 Coaching, and facilitation of leadership development programs and offsites, I run a suite of unique offerings allowing leaders to develop in nature working with animals, including horses, wolves and wild animals in Kenya. These programs draw on the wisdom of nature and animals as parallels to healthy team dynamics and the self-awareness and self-regulation necessary for effective leadership. These experiences are so out of the ordinary, they allow access to new data sources and profound life-changing insights that are simply inaccessible in day-to-day life.
Please go to www.janinedaviscoach.com for more info!
Speaking and Podcasts
Panels, Speaking, Workshops and other talks around town
The Neuroscience of Spiritualty - SpritSpeakers Podcast
2024 - Audience of millions
We explore the intersection point of human experience and science, paying particular attention to how spirtual awareness can be explored, built and reinforced through brain science. We also dig into the amazing ways nature and animals can help us to tap in.
Tiger21 - EQ Fundamentals and the Neuroscience of Change
2023 - Audience of 15 HNW individuals
Invited to speak on the fundamentals of Emotional Intelligence, and the neuroscience underlying one's ability to change behaviors, alogn with the topic of cognitive diversity.
Techstars #Givefirst Podcast with Brad Feld, Co-Founder of Foundry Group and Techstars
2020 - Distributed to audience of over 320,000
Brad Feld, Co-Founder of Foundry Group and Techstars, interviews me on Executive Coaching in the time of COVID. The Techstars GiveFirst podcast is distributed to over 300,000 listeners. Listen here.
Headspace Equal Pay Fireside Chat
2021 - Audience of 105
Moderated a panel in honor of Equal Pay Day, with a focus on intersectionality and how managers can striver for parity on their teams.
Tech Leaders: High Performance Habits
2020 - audience of up to 150
Executive Coach Tracy Podell and I speak about being a courageous leader using the concepts from Brené Brown's Dare to Lead™ curriculum. Watch HERE.
Women Founders Network - Staying Grounded and Focused as an Entrepreneur
2020 - Audience of 30 + on demand access
Presented on How to Stay Grounded and Focused as an Entrepreneur with Robyn Ward. The session was presented live, and also recorded and provided on demand to the WFN community.
MiLA Capital CEO Summit
2020 - Audience of 75
Presented on Hiring and Culture for Seed stage startups. Also provided 1:1 Executive Coaching sessions with attending CEOs.
Fundamentals of Culture & Leadership
2019 - Audience of 50
Presented on the fundamentals of Leadership and Culture, including some interactive components to facilitate the audience's integration of the content provided. Focus on the nuances of biotech startups.
Techstars LA - Hiring, Culture & Diversity
2018 and 2019 - Audience of 30
Led full cohorts through a presentation and workshop on hiring, culture, diversity, and how to build a team mindfully.
LA CTO Forum - Engineering Culture
2019 - Audience of 80
Led a presentation and workshop on creating an Engineering Culture within the context of overall company culture, with a focus on increasing retention, productivity and employee engagement.
ScaleLA - Culture & Leadership 101
2019 - Audience of 20
Presented on the fundamentals of Leadership and Culture, including some interactive components to facilitate the audience's integration of the content provided.
Backstage Capital - Metrics and Goals
2019 - Audience of 10
Led an interactive workshop on KPIs, OKRs and other performance management/goals approaches for the first LA cohort of Backstage's accelerator cohort.
Mobile World Conference/4YFN
2019 - Individual Mentor Sessions
Served as a Mentor, providing 1:1 coaching to founders, with a primary focus on pitch presentations.
SAM Precellerator - Leadership & Culture 101
2018 and 2019 - Audience of 50
Presented on the fundamentals of Leadership and Culture, including some interactive components to facilitate the audience's integration of the content provided.
Women Founders Network - Startup Bootcamp: Hiring, People Ops & Culture
2018 - Audience of 100
Sat on a 2-person panel, targeted at startup founders, on the topics of hiring, culture, legal pitfalls to avoid and other people ops topics.
LA Cleantech Incubator - Imposter Syndrome
2018 - Audience of 80
Sat on a 4-person panel on the topic of Imposter Syndrome, targeted towards women in tech.
LMU POWER - Empowerment
2018 - Audience of 100
Facilitated break out group on the topic of empowerment.
The United State of Women - Mentor
2017 - Individual Mentor Sessions
Served as a Mentor, providing 1:1 coaching to founders.
Prelude Ventures - Leadership & Culture Fundamentals
2017 - Audience of 50
As part of their portfolio-wide retreat, presented and facilitated an interactive sessions on the fundamentals of Leadership and Culture.
Broadscircle - Getting to the C-Suite
2015 - Audience of 180
Sat on a 4-person panel discussing strategies for women to rise in the ranks to the C-suite.
U.C. Santa Barbara - Personal Branding and Purpose
2015 - Audience of 50
Guest Lecturer in the College of Engineering’s Technology Management program, on the topic of personal branding and purpose for a course focused on entrepreneurism and innovation in tech.
Speaking Examples
EQ Fundamentals in 8 Minutes
Learn the basics of building Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation
Remote Leadership Challenges & Remedies
Techstars hosted a global workshop on Remote Leadership Challenges, and remedies that leaders can put into place to counteract them.
Publications
I love to write!
My Medium Blogs
All The Things
Access my Medium Blog Here. The newer posts come from my life as an Executive Coach, and focus on leadership, culture, root cause issues of employee engagement and experience going off the trackets, etc. The older ones are a bit more tactically focused on recruiting, careers, networking and other goodies.
Forbes
Various Articles
I've been published as well as quoted in several Forbes articles.
- 3 Things a Zebra Can Teach You When You and a Peer Have Competing Goals
- 20 Assumptions That Managers Should Avoid Making About Their Team
- 20 Common Ways Managers Can Create A Sense Of Alienation In Employees
- 17 Innovative And Trendy Employee Benefits That Actually Work
- 15 Ways Business Owners Can Figure Out How To Grow Revenue And Profits
- 14 Things First-Time Founders Often Forget To Include In Their Business Plans
- 15 Ways Executive Women Can Help Other Women Move Into The C-Suite
- 17 Leadership Tips to Motivate Teams and Still Hold Them Accountable
The Startup
The Startup
If you really want your team to innovate, you need to face the mixed messages you're probably giving them. Learn more HERE.
Thrive Global
You'll Never Finish
A blog post about the fallacy of finishing. (Warning - I'm a bit of a potty mouth in this one....)
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