Sean Mills

Snapchat

Former Head of Original Content & Former Onion President

“Denise is a powerhouse with a supernatural ability to cut through to the core issues that need attention to help align a management team. She deeply understands the unique challenges that executives navigate both personally and professionally and helps translate them into a clear action plan to make a real difference. Denise’s impact on our executive team, employee retention, and ultimately our bottom-line were invaluable.”

Betsy Dickey

Ready for Reading, Rwanda

Founder & CEO

“I’d sum up working with Denise and the BeClear Method in these words: Clarity, Alignment, Action and “By-When”. It’s really that simple but deeply profound and takes courage, commitment and honesty. Remaining faithful to integrating the work using the BeClear Method tools, I grew in surprising ways I never thought was possible.”

Thai Randolph

Kevin Hart’s HARTBEAT Productions

CEO

“Denise and I met at one of the most pivotal moments in my career. I had just become a first-time mom and received a major promotion at work. However, before I could fully wrap my mind around the excitement of either development, I found myself thrust into a situation where I would need to restructure the organization, redefine its mission AND chart a path forward – all while managing a complex network of stakeholders to meet some nearly impossible deadlines. I was, overwhelmed and intimidated to say the least. Our parent company had hired Denise as an executive coach and business strategist for me – and I was, at first very skeptical of an outsider’s ability to provide any value for me or the company at a time when the stakes were so high. I am delighted to say, I couldn’t have been more wrong. In my first meeting with Denise she cut through all of my hang-ups and excuses and helped me to articulate the core challenge and opportunities before me, personally and professionally. By our 3rd meeting, we had literally mapped a corporate strategy and personal vision statement – on the back of a napkin. It’s now a 1 ½ years later and the company we carved out is striving, and has grown by every meaningful KPI (revenue, profit, employee satisfaction). Denise was a career-saver for me and highly recommend her for anyone looking to get CLEAR and drive real results.”

Eric Manlunas

Wavemaker VC

Founder & Managing Partner

“Denise did a masterful job in facilitating the first ever offsite of a fast-growing cross border venture capital firm that has grown from a one person operation to 36 people across two markets. She helped us understand our organizational strengths and weaknesses and more importantly, helped us craft a strategy on how to institute a culture of alignment and accountability. She helped us further crystallized our commercial aspirations and assisted us in reinforcing our long term objectives. Thanks to Denise’s clarity, we learned a lot about ourselves that weekend. It was a priceless experience!” ​

Douglas Whitcomb

Whitsons Culinary Group

President

“I want to personally thank you, Denise for making both events yesterday very rewarding. I have been a member of YPO/WPO for over twenty years. I have attended countless YPO events, I have read every self-help book written and attended many seminars considered to be the best in the business; in short, I am difficult to impress. Yesterday’s events were outstanding, I can honestly say you have impressed me, both with the Subject and your delivery. I was very impressed with your technique of drawing real answers from participants who thought they could dodge your question with a clever or funny answers. Thank you for holding their feet to the fire while keeping the presentation on track. Communicating complicated concepts quickly is difficult but you succeeded; the feedback I received from many of the members confirmed my own experience. In Both the Breakfast and dinner meeting everyone felt they were taking away very usable knowledge. Thank you –Thank you –Thank you”

Sid Mofya

Draper Venture Network

Executive Director

“I’ve had the privilege of working with Denise as my coach and I would highly recommend her. I particularly appreciate how she intuitively understands the core, underlying issue – both from what I’m saying and, importantly, from what I’m not. Her coaching is both courageous and compassionate. I’ve also had an early experience of the pre-release Be Clear app and was immediately struck by how easy it was to navigate and to work on specific leadership traits in a way felt very specific to me. I’m excited for this to be available to many leaders. We need it.”

Harris Beber

Waze

CMO

“Working with Denise and leveraging her methodologies was much less about a need for continuous coaching, and more about learning how to understand and tap into my true inner gifts and what I have always been great at, but under appreciated. Developing an ability to identify and put myself in circumstances that directly align and have a need for these strengths has had a profound effect on my fulfillment and the impact I have been able to deliver.”

Louisa Schneider

Rowan

Founder & CEO

“In my time as a Founder and CEO, the challenges that have arisen have often left me feeling alone and in need of an expert’s experienced advice. So often, these challenges have been around effective communication, particularly in a remote work environment. As we all evolve and learn the new best practices of engaging our own teams, remotely and in real life, no one has been more helpful than Denise at helping me create a bespoke and effective approach to my own communication style and delivery. Working with Denise for a short time has forever improved my ability to bring my true self to my communication and to successful build and grow my business.”

Buck Jordan

Miso Robotics

CEO & Co-Founder

“Miso Robotics had just gone through a management transition and was in dire need of getting the teams comfortable with brand-new executive leadership, realignment around the new goals, and a heightened sense of focus to allow each team member to achieve their individual objectives. Denise quickly achieved alignment across all stakeholders in the business and the critical path to success. Denise, and the Be Clear Method easily saved the company several months of critical time and now The team is more productive, empowered, accountable and highly motivated than they’ve ever been.”

Guy Nohra

Alta Partners VC

Co-Founder

“Denise has deep insights and is amazingly clairvoyant. There is no off track with her BeClear process. Everything is relevant. She also has intellectual stamina. She can determine the mood in a room very quickly and will move to align all stakeholders. Up and down the hierarchy. I feel I know so much more about myself and where I want to go next than I ever could have discovered on my own. The investment is well worth it.”

John Morning

Writer and Producer

“Warning, this not a formula; not a fill in the blanks dogma. Using the BeClear Method teaches you to look deep inside yourself— past and present—and find your own effective solutions to the dilemmas you face. Denise Spatafora’s BeClear method is a treasure map, where YOU get to determine where the X marks the spot, showing you how to find it…but the treasure is all yours.”

Steve Hannah

The Onion

President & CEO

“I hired BeClear at a pivotal time in the evolution of our company. The work BeClear did with me as CEO, as well as the assessment with my top management team, helped us manage our way through that change. The experience was invaluable and lasting.”

Courtney Tuckman

Google

Manager Internal Talent Mobility

“Working with Denise was like co-writing a story in which you’re the protagonist. Denise helps show you the way to be a hero in your own story. Not only is writing the story fun, but Denise shines a light on possibilities that you didn’t think of, ways to overcome challenges that you didn’t see before and helps to open up new and novel ways to create a meaningful and fulfilling life/work path.”

Betty Leonard

Whittier Trust

Board Member

“Denise is an unusually talented individual—she is a consummate professional. Denise understands that Communication is an Art. She has the masterful ability to listen and clarify your thought process, redirect and have you integrate what is true for you. This talent allows and encourages a group to interface and transmit information in a board setting, group environment and conference so that each individual is heard, challenged, if necessary, without invalidation and clear resolutions are purposeful and deliberate.”

Ralph Sutton

Validity Finance, previously with Credit Suisse

Co-Founder

“I had the opportunity to work with Denise in a professional context, aligning my board. Denise wasted no time sorting through a murky set of issues, identifying clear goals and zeroing in on a plan to get me from where I was to where I wanted to be. In doing so, she tactfully made me more aware of my strengths and weaknesses and pointed me toward maximizing one while improving the other…

Tim Butler

A Royal Flush

CEO

“Working with Denise and following the BeClear Method has been transformative for our company and specifically our leadership team. She is a transformative business adviser, leadership coach, and objective masterful referee all in one who is able to cut through the BS with laser clarity. She defined a pathway to short-term and long-term success for our team and our business and pushed us to identify and achieve goals that were lofty but attainable.”

Zachary Julius

Professional Disposables International & sister company, NICE-PAK

CEO

“My father and I hired Denise to work with us, both personally and in two family-owned businesses. As a result, we are far more open and comfortable expressing our thoughts, feelings and love for each other than at any time in the past, and this shift is reflected in the positive results we are feeling in our relationship and seeing in both businesses, which are thriving. Thank you for your guidance Denise.”

Marc Zamsky

Cimplifi

CEO

“Working with Denise made my job as an executive in charge of a $200 Million Company that much easier. My Goal: Recalibrate a disjointed and arcane approach to sales and service delivery, harnessing our teams strengths and minimizing our weaknesses, leaving us aligned and driven. Denise did incredible “pre-work” understanding the goals, the players, issues, obstacles and objections. Despite this group of otherwise cynical and mistrusting individuals, Denise managed to gain consensus and action-oriented conversations and collaborations”

Nancy Robertson

Rand Corporation

Writer & Producer

“Denise Spatafora is who you need to call when your organization needs focus. At a two-day workshop for the development department at the RAND corporation, she provided no-drama tools for communication among colleagues. She laid a foundation for successful collaboration and helped shape an aggressive goal-setting framework for the future. Plus, she made it all fun and entertaining – she’s truly a motivational catalyst.”

Eli Kuslansky

Unified Field Interactive Media Company

Co-Founder/Chief Innovative Officer

“Denise is a soothsayer and a visionary, all rolled up in to 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 deep understanding of business gained from years of experience as an entrepreneur, makes Denise a national treasure.”

Angela Dotson Giardini

Fashionphile

Senior VP

“I had the pleasure of having Denise as my Executive Coach during my tenure at Chanel.  I met Denise at a very interesting time during my career – transition within a company where I had been working for almost ten years. Denise’s ability to help people pause and reflect, and re-evaluate their work and communication techniques, is enlightening.  One of the most valuable things I have taken with me is a statement of learning to listen differently. Hearing things because you pause and reflect, then ask the person that you are with in that moment to try to listen differently, can create a better understanding of a situation. This will then have the outcome of true collaboration while problem solving. Also, By profession and nature, I am a speaker/facilitator and have always been known as a strong communicator. I realized however, that did not always mean I had “a voice”. Finding your “voice” is something very different than being a good speaker. It is crafting your communication in a way that everyone wants to listen to what you have to say; this is also about being seen as a business leader. The journey of working with Denise and the BeClear Method is all about true clarity: who you are, what you want to be, and how you are going to get there. This happens simultaneously when you are working through a company culture and you are still true to yourself.”

Anna Robertson

The Cool Down

Co-Founder

“I hired Denise to help me design an offsite for my team focused on alignment and strategy for the next year. The experience she created was extremely productive and deeply impactful, and in the end completely exceeded my expectations. In a short period of time, Denise helped us to address long-standing roadblocks using real-time conflict resolution and offering tools for better communication that promote collaboration. We witnessed several breakthroughs both in the group dynamics and in individual leadership identity and style that will have long-standing impact on our work. Denise’s method and skilled coaching helped us to accomplish a tremendous among in a short period of time and left the entire team feeling clear, empowered and energized about the opportunities ahead. I have never seen such an effective offsite coach in any corporate environment, and I would enthusiastically recommend Denise and her approach to other companies and leaders.”

Eliza Fedewicz

EVP Strategist & Insights Consultant

I have no words to describe just how amazing my experience working with Denise has been for me both personally and professionally. I came across her reading a New York Times article where a successful CEO was describing how valuable working with Denise had been for him and his company. Little did I know she was about to help change my life in a greater way that I could ever have imagined myself.

Denise’s wisdom stems from not only her ‘Clear’ approach, where I re-discovered passions, reconnected to my super powers, and went on liberating journeys to explore lives I have always dreamt of, sharpening the dream as I went; but Denise also has this rare magical combination of deep wisdom, passion and empathy. She guided me as much as she empowered me to find my own energy to transform my life, and act clearly and courageously towards it.

Choosing to work with Denise has been one of the best life decisions I ever made. Since our work, I quit a 30-year full-time career in exchange for a much more successful and balanced consulting business, and opened my art studio where I can now follow a core passion of mine towards creating art.

I cannot recommend her enough to anyone seeking to live their fullest Selves, or to any company seeking to empower their people to thrive in their own journeys – I know Denise will empower them to move towards their truest and most fulfilling lives!

Michael Albanese

Element Lifestyle

Writer & Co-founder

“When seeking a business strategist for one of my clients, good friends guided me to Denise. My client was so thrilled with Denise’s very clear, organic and powerful method that I had to start working with her myself. Denise just “gets it”. Because each of us, in all of our complexities, weaknesses and giftedness has a special “it”. And Denise has the unique ability to authentically get to the heart of that “it”. She helps uncover new truths about ourselves some of which may have laid dormant since childhood. Her way of cutting through the nonsense and noise helps decimate the negative agreements we’ve made with ourselves and others. She helps point our hearts and minds toward the person we are truly meant to become. The process can be both painful and beautiful. For those who prefer to operate from a place of fear, she may not be the person for you. Denise is a listener, a long-lost skill in a world of noisy progress and technological clutter. Her work is aggressive but compassionate, honest yet graceful. As I once described to a friend, watching a classical musician do what they were born to do is incredibly inspiring. Watching Denise work is the same. She can create a symphony in your life if you’re willing to listen for one.”

Glenn Laumeister

AllWork

CEO

“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 types 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.”

Kevin M. O’Callaghan

Universal Builders Supply Inc.(UBS)

President

“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!”

Neal Goldman

Capital IQ

Founder & CEO of FindCenter

“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.”

Michael Ashkenazy

101 Holdings

Founder & Partner Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp

“It’s all begins with discomfort. Around your work, relationships, personal progress. I feel that we are all in a daily grind. Trying to do what we do best while struggling with voices of uncertainty and past traumas. I would call Denise with the intent of discomfort in business growth and wanting to push further for her to quickly break it down to the core. Whether business or personal. We all need clarity. With clarity comes presence and our ability to act at our highest effectiveness. After our meetings I would always have clarity as the source of discomfort has been identified and discussed the steps and path to move higher. Our time together continues to be invaluable. Sometimes we are in contact more than others over a 5-year span. But our work towards our highest selves and achievements remains collaborative and in line. Denise continues to guide me to be the best me I can be. I am grateful to have her in my life and know where I go for whatever type of guidance, I may need that day.”

Ammar Moiz

Mayple Global

Founder & CEO

“I’ve worked with Denise for over 5 years and she has been imperative to a lot of personal and professional growth since. Denise has an instinctual ability to gravitate to the truth therefore illuminating decisions, outcomes, considerations that you may be avoiding or procrastinating. Denise goes beyond the definition of a traditional – “business coach”, although she possesses a great deal of business savvy and knowledge and can help strategize some of the most intricate business situations. I would highly recommend Denise to help unleash the next order of growth in your personal and professional life.”