Dawn Sharifan is a Master Certified Coach, working with top leaders around the globe. She has two decades worth of operating experience as well as a practical joyful approach.
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PAST CLIENTS
PAST CLIENTS
Positive Selfishness is the ability to leave false humility and martyrdom behind. Answering your wants and needs and seeing how doing this actually supports communities you care for and want to be an authentic part of. Creating a win/win lifestyle for you and your community.
Individual 1:1 Coaching
For leaders who are looking to level up, not only the impact of their leadership but, the satisfaction and joy they can feel in leading. This often comes when they have reached a high level of achievement and begin to get curious, asking big questions, such as “Is this all there is? What’s next? I’ve worked so hard to get here, I’ve neglected other parts of my life, now what?
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Group Coaching & Facilitation
Dawn works with many organizations to help their teamwork increase in efficiency, joy and productivity, all the while lowering the drama. Dawn is certified as an individual and group coach. This can look like helping plan and facilitate offsites, revamping the Executive Leadership Team meeting, or even mediating conflict between key members of the organization.
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Working with Dawn will level you up, and her clients are all lucky to have the chance to work with her.
WC (General Counsel, HealthTech)
Fractional People Leadership
Dawn has served as a Fractional Chief People Officer for several exciting and rapidly growing companies. Helping them set up their organization and processes, serving as an executive partner while finding a full time leader and avoiding unnecessary “HR debt”. She has also supported larger organizations while a leader was on leave or serving as a temporary leader while recruiting a top full time leader.
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Dawn is Bay Area Master Certified Coach with strong operational and executive experience. Leading with compassion, challenging you to level up all areas of your life.
Dawn’s clients tend to be a curious,intelligent group that have an appetite to learn about themselves and evolve in their lives. They are frequently at a transition point in their careers or life. They choose to learn from others' journeys to aid in their own. They can find humor in darkness and seek joy in life. They are at a stage in life that allows them to ask big questions. They appreciate deep authentic relationships and seek to find connections in a frequently isolated world.
Our work together has helped me continue to become the leader I want to be versus the one I "should" be, and that's played out in my personal life as well. I'm more clear and honest with everyone at work and in my life, and I'm better able to stay true to my priorities versus react to what I think others expect of me."
GT (CEO, Tech)

The Britney Spears vehicle. No.The Robert Frost Poem. Closer.The store from my childhood mall in the 90’s? Definitely not The feeling like something wants to happen. A yearning. An inflection point. A what’s next moment. These are the moments that I support people in their lives. It can be a job change, career transition, leadership […]

Life can be hard. Life can be complicated. Life can be. How do you take what life brings in a way that doesn’t feel toxicly positive or skating over your real feelings. Ah that’s a secret sauce. Step 1: Acknowledge the situation by identifying the facts. Facts are things that can be proven via our […]
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