Executive Coach

Denise is a certified executive coach with a strong track record of helping CEOs and senior leaders get through their hardest professional challenges. With over twenty years of experience in Organization Development and executive coaching, she enables a growing list of executives in some of the most successful non-profits and iconic organizations, including Microsoft, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, W.L. Gore & Associates, Amazon and Nike to become more effective leaders and stronger communicators with a formidable leadership presence.

Denise is the CEO and founder of Denise Harris Leadership, which was created to help executives and leaders increase awareness, envision possibilities, achieve insights, and accomplish meaningful and challenging goals, particularly during times of significant organizational change and uncertainty. Denise is also a senior facilitator for the Center of Mentorship Excellence.

She incorporates and infuses a passion for authentic leadership into every aspect of her work to help her clients create the space to be centered and intentional in their commitment to growth, day to day choices and interactions with others. Denise is deeply committed to helping others thrive personally and professionally. Denise creates trust-based partnerships with her clients to increase their success as authentic leaders. She gets to the heart of matters and sees her clients’ inherent strengths. She incorporates mindfulness practices in her work with clients to help them create the space to be more centered and intentional in the face of constant demands.

Her strengths include coaching clients in the areas of leadership development and influence, thinking strategically, building personal and professional resilience, and creating balance in demanding roles. She is especially skilled at helping clients to identify and “get unstuck” from long-term patterns of behavior and thinking that do not support their vision of success. Denise uses a pragmatic approach, providing tools, skills training, and unique exercises focused on her clients’ personal and business outcomes. She combines empathy, challenge, accountability, and humor to help her clients create solutions that will work in both their professional and everyday life.

Denise is a certified practitioner in both Meyers Briggs and Hogan Leadership Assessment and is also a certified John Maxwell Speaker & Leadership Coach.

Denise is a graduate of Hofstra University, a graduate of Accomplishment Coaching Coaches’ Training Program and is ACC credentialed by the International Coaching Federation. Denise is also an authorized career coach for American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Leadership Consultant for Genesis Advisers.