Leadership Development Coaching, Life Coaching Services in New York NYC Worldwide


Leadership Development Coaching – Life Coaching Services Coaching Leaders, Entrepreneurs & Their Teams (New York, NYC, Worldwide)
"I hired Denise at a pivotal time in the evolution of our company—we were in the process of transforming the Onion from a rather traditional publishing company to a digital one. Change creates displacement and tension. The work she did with me as CEO, as well as the assessment with my top management team, helped us manage our way through that change. Her advice was invaluable. In short, she lead me/us to confront the facts regarding what was working and what was not in our company. And that, in turn, helped bring about changes that have been beneficial for all of us—both personally and professionally."
Steve Hannah President and CEO, The Onion

"Denise has delivered real value for my own personal growth as well as for the growth of my business. She is able to see things that you simply can’t and rather than just talk about it, she works with you to put together an actionable plan to achieve your true goals. I would highly recommend her for anyone who aspires to reach their full potential in all areas of their life. I trust few people who claim to deliver these type of results, usually they never really deliver tangible results that you can look back on and say WOW. Denise has delivered those WOW results for me time after time."
Glenn Laumeister Former Chairman and CEO of Partsearch Technologies

"Denise is a very gifted person who fosters powerful communication and goal setting. She has exceptional abilities to surface the underlying issues of people's positions and perspectives, enabling team members to best understand each other and reach common ground. Working with Denise has proven extremely valuable for us and, as evidence of the value I feel she has delivered, have recommended her to well over a dozen friends. Denise, you made me work very hard. I am forever grateful."
Neal Goldman UHURU Capital Management

"Denise brings to each client her full range of intuitive human wisdom and practical business grittiness. It is an astonishing combination that helped me see the "goal", the roadblocks I erect to those goals, and the path to my own effectiveness in the world. She is a wonder."
Ralph J. Sutton Director, Credit Suisse

"Denise has a unique power to understand what makes leaders and their organizations tick and applies that understanding in ways that challenge your thinking and habits. I found her insights really opened my mind to new possibilities and it’s served me well ever since."
Jay Lauf Vice President/Publisher of The Atlantic

"A highly intuitive person, Denise Spatafora connects immediately with people at all levels. She has this magical ability to help you cut through personal clutter and zoom in the root challenges that you lead you to personal and professional growth. By providing you a safe, comforting and positive environment, Denise helps you develop and build on your strengths. She makes a meaningful impact on people's lives and careers."
Claudine Loi Director, Professional Development, Citi Private Bank, New York City

"It was great having Denise Spatafora on the Sally Jesse Raphael for TalkNet Show! Denise articulately speaks with wisdom and passion about her work as a coach and consultant to hundreds of people/leaders. Sally totally loved chatting with Denise! Quote from Sally - "Wow, does she know her stuff and she's so easy to talk to and likable.”
Miriam Zernis Sally Jesse Raphael Producer

"Denise is a bright light...someone with a contagious passion for living life fully engaged and without fear. She has an innate ability to identify and bring out the the true talents of others and lends a momen- tum to the process of self discovery and actualization."
Graceann I. Bennett Managing Partner, Ogilvy & Mather

"Working with Denise has allowed me to operate from a mindful and purpose filled platform. Denise met with my team as well as my family to fully understand my leadership development goals. What has transpired since our first meeting a few months back is simply magical. I have deep appreciation for Denise’s ability to fully understand all aspects of my professional aspirations and challenges. She listens without judgment and her advice is purely for my personal benefit. This is a unique skill that I have grown to appreciate a great deal. Denise has changed the way I think about professional ambitions, daily chal- lenges and long-range goals. I am now putting together the life I always wanted, but didn’t know exactly how to achieve. I am much more effective and peaceful. It helps greatly to have an on-going relationship with Denise because life never stops throwing curve balls at you. A quick call, and I am back being aligned. Thank you, Denise."
Ali Riaz CEO of Attivio, Inc

"With a clear focus on professional development, Denise seizes her client's overall reality, makes it her project and becomes a powerful life coach/consultant. I decided to work with her for her holistic approach of power, success and self-realization. She has a gift for reading, very fast, what's on your mind, on your plate, in your guts and in your future. She is a down-to-earth clairvoyant who has the power of bringing clarity in any situation through intense one-on-one sessions. Her counsel, always stimulating, is professional, strategic and pragmatic. Her radiant and forceful positive energy spills over and, if you do the simple yet effective homework she assigns, you'll have a clear vision and the power and desire to realize it. The whole work with Denise is accomplished in a caring, considerate and com- passionate relationship."
Vice President, America East Coast & Latin America, BBC Worldwide Americas

"Denise brings an uncommon energy, wisdom and kindness to her work. Her council is like benefiting from an ancient goddess who is grounded in everyday practical reality. She is laser like in getting to the heart of the matter, a joy to be with and committed to results that make a profound difference in the lives of those she touches. One gets the feeling that her broad based knowledge and compassion are won from hard work which makes for a healing compassion. It is my great pleasure to know her."
Susan Laughter Founder and CEO, Wall Street Services

"Denise Spatafora had initially met my wife who encouraged me to meet with Denise. I tentatively (only later did I discover my tentativeness was a reflection of my fears) agreed to a trial consultation period. Within months, my work product,and my job satisfaction, improved dramatically. More remarkably, I am still learning from her, as her teachings continue to help me learn about myself. Denise possesses an exceptional ability to read an individual, and help them fulfill their potential. Not only did Denise guide me with specific tactics to improve my work, but she helped me understand my fears and misconceptions; both had limited my growth. Though I've benefited from world-class schooling, including an Ivy League MBA, and countless professional seminars, Denise's coaching has been the single most powerful growth engine in my career. In addition to creating measurable results, her effervescent personality, energy and passion turned a sometimes difficult learning process, into an unexpected joy."
Steve Grant Managing Partner, Tishman Speyer Properties, NYC

"I met Denise Spatafora through a Young President Organization (YPO) breakfast event she chaired titled: HOW MUCH SUCCESS IS ENOUGH? I was immediately struck by her ability to cut through our CEO ARMOR and provide a mirror to our daily process and provide elusive methods of self-correction. Denise then worked with me for 1 session to guide me in gaining back the lost swagger in myself and my company, eliminating the artificial barriers that were stifling our success and freeing staff at every level to express themselves and be responsible for their own success. Two sessions with Denise, reinvented my companies communication channels and effectiveness. Since meeting Denise in November of 2006, I've lost 25 pounds, started an import/export company and been to Egypt to look at development opportunities... all while my company thrives and my employees have become empowered. Denise created such a quick and tangible difference in me and my company that I've since asked her to revitalize my YPO Forum. She immediately met with each member individually and has custom designed a communication program that we will be effectively utilizing for years to come. I recommend Denise very highly!"
Kevin M. O'Callaghan President and Founder, Universal Builders Supply Inc. (UBS), NY

"Denise Spatafora is an astonishingly talented life and job coach. Like a diamond cutter, unlocking the brilliance within a stone, Denise identifies where joy and value intersect in her clients' ambitions. She skillfully reflects her clients' goals back so they can understand and manage the power of their intentions. Denise has a very special gift."
Dan Dubno Former Executive Producer at CBS for thirty years and Founder of "Blowing Things Up"

"Denise Spatafora is an exceptionally smart person to work with. The guidance and insights she offers are direct, concise and immediately relevant. Denise so effectively helps one see and act upon the truth of a situation."
Daphne Kis President & CEO, EDventure Holdings - Sold to CNET in 2004

"I got to know Denise through my daughter Carolina who felt deeply connected to Denise Spatafora's philosophy and attitude toward life. It was in moment of change in my office where I was trying to find a new direction toward my beliefs and what was important to us. Denise helped us reorganize our ideas and transmit them within the office and towards clients and the media in a very effective and powerful way. She has the gift of empowering people's strengths and recognizing weakness that have to be redirected. She really made a difference in our office in a very short period of time."
Katia Martin Katia Martin Architectural Firm, Costa Rica

"Working with Denise is like standing bare naked in front of a huge mirror, bathed in just the right light. She won't let you hide from any truth about yourself, but will also give you the amount of compassion you need to be able to open your eyes. Denise's magic comes in her ability to see straight through to the core of the issue, needing very little discussion, and as a result, very little time. Her advice is experien- tial, impactful and challenging, and completely customized to your journey. There are no standard forms to fill out or standard questions to answer. In fact, there is nothing typical about the conversation. Denise dives into your life as far as you are willing to go - and takes you on the journey you've dreamt of but were too fearful to do on your own. If you're willing to soar out of your world and into a new dimension of possibilities - take Denise as your guide.
Karen Gurwitz Founder of Mothers and Menus, NYC and Author

"Denise's divine syncronicity, spirit and insights are phenomenal and rare."
Publisher Conde Nast Publications

"Denise Spatafora has an extremely high energy approach to living. I have worked with Denise to unify my life's inspiration and actions. A quote from a poem of Carl Sandburg's comes to mind, "Together wing to wing and oar to oar." Denise has helped me to unify my wings (inspiration) with my oars actions)."
Leslie Upchurch Renowned Pianist and Teacher

"Denise is a witch, a soothsayer and a visionary, all rolled up into one neat packet of energy. Her ability, like virtual radar, to cut through the surface in conversations to pinpoint the heart of the matter in any situation is uncanny and accurate. A compassion that goes back generations coupled with an under- standing of business gained from years of experience as an entrepreneur, makes Denise a national treasure."
Eli Kuslansky Unified Field, Chief Innovative Officer and Co-Founder, NYC Interactive Media Company

"Having Denise in my life puts Life in my life. And it's on all levels. She is of the earth - basic, of the air -insightful, of the water - deep, of the fire - passionate. And, one of my favorite things, like a woodland creature - she is play - and is, as 'they' say, is truly "at play - in the fields of the lord"."
Raja Shaheen Reiki Master Healer

"Denise is a true walker of the talk, and talker of the walk. I have had the Blessed opportunity to witness her closely in her natural habitat. She has a keen ability, like a Lion in the wild, to not spotlight a challenge in the path to her goals. She can be both intensely free of doubt, and miraculously genius when there's a need for a quick and clean solution. Having her in my Life has rekindled the light in my Lion-eye. I am fully gaffed for the journey of realizing my biggest Dreams, and will no longer be dormant energy in the Sum of Life. The Quest is renewed."
David Raine Songwriter and Singer

"In our quiet moments, when we really listen, our hearts and our spirits have plenty to say. But here presents a two-fold problem. One, it is hard to get quiet in the very noisy world we live in. Second, it is often even more challenging to listen, to be still and really listen. Denise has an uncanny ability to be look into someone's heart and express those desires, to articulate what cannot be articulated, to bring to the ear what cannot be heard. She can readdress and rearrange obstacles, which appear to the beholder only the same thing over and over and over: their beloved obstacles. To Denise these are not obstacles, but unarticulated insights. With her vision she guides people to that moment of insight, to the Aha! moment, the Eureka moment, the moment of clarity."
Justine Lackey Founder of Good Cents, Inc.

"Denise has become a tremendous resource for me and for my family. Her wisdom, empathy and stamina allows her to dig as deep as necessary to get to the source of the problem. With me, it was all about how my parents interacted with each other, resulting in how I dealt with my own relationships and personal thoughts. By discovering the source and creating simple tools to get the right thinking around key issues; I am on an incredibly exciting new path. One thing is for sure: there is no way back for me. I cannot ever let myself live in the way that I was living in the past. The funny thing is: everyone thought I had my act together back then. Now, people are coming out of the woodwork to tell me their delight about my new ‘ways’. Friends and even family members learn to live with you with all your faults and issues. When you start to deal with those faults and issues that are impairing you from being YOU, the benefits reach all people around you. That is my experience from working with Denise. Denise, you made me work very hard. I am forever grateful."
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