“I hired Dori to help my leadership team form new habits, relationships, and leadership philosophies together. Dori’s coaching and corporate expertise helped us to become more conscious and skillful, by focusing on who we are and what we bring as individuals, exploring our blind spots and untapped potential (both as individuals and as a team), and then showcasing how we can leverage our collective skills to drive more impactful, deliberate results. She created a safe, inviting space where we were able to be seen and call each other forth, strengthening our bond as a leadership team and then applying that level of connectedness to our own direct reports. Dori taught us sustainable tools around agreement setting, building trust, listening, giving feedback, and showing respect, and then correlated these skills to our ability to innovate and engage others into our work to deliver the results promised. We are a stronger, more intentional team as a result of this team development engagement with Dori!”
“I had been thinking (off and on) of a professional coach for a good amount of time starting several years ago and didn’t know how to take the first steps or what I really wanted/what my goals were. When I started a new job at Google Cloud, I found myself feeling a bit lost in the role and on that team. I wanted to find my path out of Google and I was struggling with the traditional job application process to find the right fit and started to question what the right fit even was, started to feel like I wasn’t sure what I was looking for at all. It was really sad and frustrating. I felt stuck and didn’t trust myself with how to move forward. Enter Dori Klass!
The biggest value of working with Dori likely comes from the safe space she creates to sit in the struggle and move through it. It isn’t always pleasant or easy and when I’m in the struggle it can be difficult to step back and parse the details to get the clarity I need. Being able to do that with our work together is incredibly valuable. I’ve most enjoyed the thought provoking discussions and exercises that help me increase my “toolset” and test out new approaches. I also find a lot of value in revisiting some of the concepts and frameworks as they are relevant. Hearing about them once isn’t always enough but repeated exposure helps things stick, over time.
I would definitely recommend you to someone who was ready to really “get real” with who they are and what they want and who they want to be. I’d tell a friend or family member that Dori is the right person to help them unlock the best version of themselves holistically, if they are ready for that journey.”
“Getting unstuck was invaluable for me. I was in a very poor state of mind when I started working with Dori. I feel like a completely new person now, able to prioritize and focus on my goals. Understanding my purpose, discovering my core values and aligning with these was critical for me to be able to get present, prioritize my goals and clarify what I wanted to accomplish near- and long-term. I very much appreciate Dori’s methodical approach, guiding me through the realization of my purpose and core values. This process has completely enriched my life, changed my mindset and allowed me to be clear, intentional and focused in my work and my life. I have the right attitude and the skills needed to address the “noise” in my life that was distracting me from accomplishing my goals. Dori has helped me in so many ways to have a positive outlook and get my life back on track. My path forward is clear, I feel in charge and I’m on track. I highly recommend Dori as your coach!”
“I have had the privilege of working with Dori Klass for more than a year as she developed and delivered a series of leadership and development courses for managers and executives across Goodwill of Southern Arizona. Dori committed many hours to learning about our organization prior to building the materials, which enabled her and us to achieve optimum results. Thanks to Dori’s work with us, we are much better prepared to effectively meet the leadership challenges before us. Her approach and concepts were simple, direct and easy to integrate at every level. I encourage anyone looking for help in developing their managers to strengthen their company to engage Dori Klass to help you!”
“Dori is one of the most intuitive persons I have ever met or with whom I have worked. That quality combined with her uncanny ability to ‘see’ behind surface issues to the heart and bone of the matter are some of the many reasons Dori has been my coach for more than 18 years. She is completely committed to the indirect method of coaching; that is, she holds that questions are at the center of all coaching. Rarely, and only with my permission, does she offer advice or counsel. This trait is crucial to effective coaching and truly empowering to me as her client. In addition, Dori is completely open to trying any technique that is in service of moving me more deeply into action and/or learning. Dori’s signature coaching work, I believe, is with respect to her narrative technique used to mine for core values; she ‘invented’ the technique and it has proven to be one of the most impactful, important, and useful processes with which I am familiar. Finally – and I wish there were a more expressive word than this – Dori is such a giving coach. By that I mean, when she is coaching, she is completely in service to her client. I am delighted and honored to recommend Dori as coach cum laude to any client, executive, or other level. She is first ‘klass’ in every respect.”
“Dori is a compassionate coach, who allows you space and time to explore and evolve your story. Dori’s process leads you, as the client, to new insights, affirmations, and self-confidence. She embraces all facets of life and is unafraid to explore any area that’s needed. Dori brings a nice blend of the practical and realistic with the more mystical and spiritual. Working with Dori has been the right coaching experience for me at the right time with the right coach. I have enjoyed having a space where I can lay it all out on the table. Where I can sort through the pieces of my life, examine it, rearrange it, and appreciate it for what it is as opposed to what it could have been. I wanted to go deeper and explore my experiences as a woman, as a professional, as a mother, as an anchor parent, as a leader, as a budding small business owner, all in one space. I needed to grieve the identities I’ve stepped out of and be more present to what I’ve said yes to, to who I am now and who I am becoming. Our collaboration has created more space, relief, choice, permission and the creative freedom I needed to design my path forward, navigate the unknowns and better integrate my personal and professional lives. I needed the blend of the practical and the spiritual that Dori brings. She encouraged all of this and more.”
“Dori is an accomplished coaching and leadership development professional. She created several leadership courses for our organization, which she taught to 40+ cohorts over a 5-year period. She productively weaves personal stories and corporate experiences into high impact training. Dori also presented at our annual leadership retreat. She masterfully guided and challenged our leaders on tough topics. We were able to go deeper than we’ve ever gone before. I highly recommend using Dori if you intend to develop leadership training in your organization. She will deliver superior learning programs that are current and relevant to your business success.”
“When working with Dori, I experienced masterful coaching. Dori used her heart and power in equal measure to ensure that I came into conscious awareness of who I was really being so that I could consciously step into who I wanted to be, from a place of awareness, seeing, and choice. It takes so much love and heart-first presence to create that level of safety and trust. It took power and courage for Dori to pierce through the many layers I had in place to try and hide from my true self and to hold me to be my Whole Self. Too much heart and there is no growth. Too much piercing and there isn’t safety. I’ve never seen anyone so masterfully hold both at the same time. Dori listens to a level that is sacred, intuitive, and incredibly present. I feel I have been seen and understood in a way I had never experienced prior and that has allowed me to become more honest, clear, and vulnerable with myself about who I really am and what I really want. It was ultimately freeing and an experience in freedom. It was a tremendous process. Dori’s programs and coaching are gifts that she gives to her clients.”
“I like when Dori calls me on things, either highlighting a story I’ve been telling myself or pointing out the resistance I’m having to a specific topic or task. I find that not many people call me on things in life and I appreciate that she does this. It’s been a great way for me to develop self-awareness, identify blocks and grow. I want to continue to be challenged and Dori does that. While she challenged me to face my blocks, she also challenged me to find my strengths and embrace my greatness. Working with Dori has provided me with the time and space to dig deep within. She’s developed some creative tools of her own that helped me to discover my Whole Self.”
“I have found great help in Dori’s significant, vast, and relevant knowledge – whether it be books, articles or tools to help me look at my life from another perspective, she keeps offering more and taking me deeper. I feel such compassion from Dori, and I feel so cared for, which helps me to trust, be more open and vulnerable. It has been so helpful when Dori reflects back what I’ve said to her, while bringing awareness to the words I’ve chosen and how I say things, or to the changes in my voice or energy, which helps me to see through another lens and step into new perspectives that serve. This perspective shifting has been so affirming and empowering. Our coaching partnership has truly helped me to soften, to be kinder to myself and to deepen my experiences of life, as a woman, a mother, a professional and a budding coach. I am facing a lot of significant transitions and Dori is helping me to navigate these with more compassion, presence and skill. Each coaching session with Dori has brought me a significant shift. I would recommend Dori to anyone I know with certainty! And I would tell them that coaching with Dori is the best investment I have ever made for myself.”