Diane Murray, LCSW, PCC (she/her)
I know a few things about letting go of who you thought you were and embracing who you have become. I’ve learned how to rise, not as a daughter, wife, friend or mother, but as “Diane”, and that has been the greatest leadership work of my lifetime.
In my over 30 years as a therapist and coach, I’ve clocked thousands of hours of continuing education, certifications, and training in order to deepen my practice. No leadership program has had more of an impact on me personally and professionally, than Dare to Lead ™. In the past 6 years I have facilitated over 1,000 versions of this program, engaging with over 2,000 leaders in industries of medicine, law, nonprofit, education, technology, AI, and engineering. What unites these leaders is the longing to create work that is human, courageous & meaningful.
Leadership hasn’t just been how I make a living. Leadership has been how I have made my life. I am a student of this work as much as I am a facilitator. The skillsets found in Dare to Lead ™ were a lifeline when I sang my mother home, just her and I, in hospice during the height of the Pandemic after 8 years of caretaking. I needed to lean hard into vulnerability, courage, and self-trust in order to complete my 26 year marriage with the reverence, gratitude, and dignity it deserved.
Throughout it all, learning to be a leader in my own life has anchored me. In my coaching I mix a deep reservoir of professional expertise with lived experience to assist leaders with increasing authenticity, deepening emotional literacy, building courage, and evoking powerful transformation. I believe we are hardwired for connection and belonging…to each other, and most importantly to ourselves.
My leadership journey has been a homecoming of sorts, a long walk back to who I always was. My deepest hope is that your leadership work feels like a homecoming too, and that you'll allow me the privilege of walking alongside you.
Rutila Galvan-Rodriguez, Executive Director Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, High Desert Education Service District
“Diane joined the Courageous Conversations® Certification Program, deepening her racial consciousness and her skill in facilitating conversations about race with intention, humility, and rigor. She applied those learnings immediately: she helped design and facilitate an affinity-based equity series for a group of white women, creating a space for accountability, reflection, and action. I had the honor of co-facilitating this work with her. As a Latina leading in the “brown” skin I am in, I never once felt hesitation, fragility, or fear. Diane leads with authenticity and a quiet, grounded power.
Diane is the kind of leader who keeps doing her own work while helping others grow. She leads with heart, integrity, and a belief in what is possible when we choose to be brave together.”
“I highly recommend Diane as an executive coach. Diane has an extraordinary ability to get to the real boundaries and design creative and actionable solutions that have an immediate impact. Her direct, yet caring approach created a safe environment where I could explore the success that I wanted, and set a plan for how to achieve it. In a short amount of time, I had a clear plan on how to change my actions and thought patterns in order to achieve the life I wanted. I wholeheartedly endorse Diane for anyone who wants to get clarity on what’s really important in life and how to get it.”
Heather Pixton
Zebra Technologies
Sales Director, Healthcare National Accounts
“Diane was fantastic, she was thoughtful and tailored the training to what fit the group best, instead of trying to make the group conform to the format. She was thought provoking, asked great questions, and allowed her vulnerability to be seen and felt by all of us.”
- Dare to Lead ™ Participant