About DTE
Short story? Dare To Engage, Inc. is a coaching, training, musing, and facilitation company devoted to helping individuals, entrepreneurial business leaders, and mission driven organizations "put their boots on" in order to create healthy organizations, relationships, and profit, while leading congruently, and living lives they love. We work with individuals and teams who hunger to create significant, positive change, not only in their companies, but in their families, communities, and the world at large.
Longer story? I started this business back in 2002, when, with a mixed background in kinesiology, hiking, corporate health and productivity, fencing, life coaching, business development, heart disease reversal program management, performance improvement, and organizational leadership – I saw how oddly powerful these things were when you put them together.
After a couple of years working for large organizations, and then having my first child, I had a whole new perspective on what "work/life" balance really was – and decided I wanted no part of it - at least not in the traditional way. Seeing an issue with burnout, unconscious and often incongruent leadership, a lack of trust and engagement in organizations, and compromised health and wellness, and lives overcome by "the machine of business" – I thought the whole game of business and life could be more fun and meaningful, and that it would benefit from integrating some non-traditional business perspectives and a different kind of mindset. Deciding to combine the powers of good health, positive energy, engaged relationships, and self leadership to help leaders be more effective, more responsive, and more successful in achieving their own definition of "balance and success", I "put her boots on", pulled together a few of my favorite things, and designed a company.
What started out a desire to create my own vision of bliss by being able to do work I loved, be available for my family, and make a positive impact on lives (and all in a way that was congruent with my own needs and values), took on a life of its own. With a passion for energy and the body, a fascination with leadership and the human spirit, a stand for authentic living and relationships, and a hunger for action and results – over several years of experimenting, succeeding and failing, I developed a philosophy of leadership that blended intuition, energy, health, happiness and emotional intelligence WITH the more traditional philosophies and tangible practices of business and leadership.
While the work was fun and effective, and rendered positive results, it had no name…for 7 years. Due to a fortuitous chain of events, a strong affinity for great boots and several other meaningful events that pointed me back to the value of doing things your way with passion and authenticity; I named my approach to living and leadership "Bootism."
The bottom line of all the work I do is to help people walk their own path, to help them be real, to help them unfold more of who they are, to help them have the best energy possible, and basically to create health and joy in their lives, and positive relationships, leadership and results in their companies.
