I coach women leaders through pivotal life-stage transitions to make transformative personal and professional changes.
What if you stay stuck as your life races past?
Turning a milestone age and wondering “what’s next?”
Letting your job or career define your entire self-worth
Missing your chance to do the things you dream of due to fear
Overthinking, being practical, and not making room for creativity and passion projects
Never truly knowing, or seeing, what’s possible for you and your life
Hello! I’m Dori.
About Me
On the cusp of my 40th birthday, I made the first of many transformative life changes and professional leaps that now define my career and beyond. It was 2007. My marriage had ended and I had just landed my first full-time job after a decade as a part-time freelance writer and full-time stay-at-home mom.
AOL hired me to produce Chief Everything Officers: Women Who Do It All and Do It Well, an early-stage social media contest platform, sponsored by Dove. I then became their first original food and lifestyle programming lead. That started my successful career as a Content Director and Strategist* for publishers, agencies, and brands. Since then, I have:
Managed the launch of a travel and entertainment site (600 editorial and commerce pages produced in under six months)
Developed and built an inventive contributor network for Martha Stewart Living (in under two months)
Led a digital content team on the Kraft Foods “Food & Family” recipe program
Built a robust, integrated product and content marketing team for B2B tech brand, Neustar (a TransUnion company)
Created content strategies for countless brands across industries, from CPG to financial services to entertainment, pharma, healthcare, and beyond
Collaborated on the build of an innovative “Content Lab” for Novartis
But perhaps my biggest leap was stepping away for a year from my successful content marketing leadership career. In 2021, I took a sabbatical.
My goal: reshape my next chapter with greater intention and impact. I wanted to build a creative practice and serve my NYC community. I saved my money, planned, and jumped.
Among other things, I launched a podcast about the ‘messy middle’ of my life-changing transition and (did I mention I’m also a culinary-school-trained chef?) worked with local food organizations. And thanks to the transformative support I got from a coach myself, I became an ICF-certified leadership coach.
My “superpower” is my ability to pivot and step into worlds once new to me. I did it at 40 and I’m doing even more now in my 50s. I credit my curiosity for taking me to foreign places and my opportunity mindset for enabling me to deliver exceptional outcomes for businesses and individuals alike.
I wasn’t always so clear-eyed or optimistic about any of this! The power of coaching is not only a set of skills I’ve learned and can share with you — it’s also, maybe mostly, this:
COACHING CAN UNLOCK A NEW LENS ON YOUR LIFE AND REVEAL THE PATH FORWARD TO WHERE YOU GO NEXT.
You, too, can experience the incredible freedom and power of breaking through the wall of “What if", “Where am I going,” and “How do I get there”?
Take the leap. I’m here to support you.
Learn more about my coaching services here and about the Energy Leadership Index Assessment and Debrief here.
What are you waiting for?