Strategist, Writer, Connector, Coach, Health-Enthusiast, Mom, and Alignment-Seeker.
I HAVE A LOT OF TITLES - AND I BET YOU DO TOO.
I’m Dessa; a heart-led Strategist and Coach. I have a passion for supporting strong, multi-faceted women.
My clients are leaders in life and work. They want to show up in life based on love and build a career and business their way. I help them get clear on goals and achieve success through aligned action.
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In the last 15+ years, I've contributed in multiple ways to business and brand development.
As a strategic leader at global award-winning advertising agencies, and as a consultant across several different industries and initiatives.
My impact includes work with:
Multi-National Legacy Brands: Samsung, The Coca-Cola Company, Kellogg, Best Buy, Allstate, Beam Suntory, Hallmark, and Lego.
Non-Profits: Global Giving, The World Wildlife Fund, and The Comic Relief Fund's Red Nose Day.
Startups in Food & Beverage: Simple Mills, Kite Hill, Vive Organic, Genius Juice, and SaaS technology.
Solopreneurs & Entrepreneurs in wellness services, boutique consulting, executive recruiting, co-working, and everyone else in between.
HISTORY + EXPERIENCE:
BRANDS I’VE WORKED WITH
ON A PERSONAL NOTE:
For most of my life, I believed I needed to do more - perfectly - and be liked by everyone to be worthy of love.
While I've always been a seeker, it was rooted in a place of fearing I wasn't enough...or worse yet, a problem that needed fixing.
Just about everything I did was because I thought it was what I needed to do to be liked and loved by others. My work matched these beliefs, and in some ways reinforced them...until it didn't.
Sitting at my desk in a fancy high-rise downtown Chicago office I felt the pain of misalignment for the first time.
Here I was eating raw almonds and drinking green juice, yet selling processed cereal and a medley of alcohol brands. I was also targeting women with a message for both of these products that promised connection and happiness through something outside of themselves.
It felt crushing to my soul to sell products I didn’t believe were solving real problems to people based on a fear-based belief that they could feel better with them in their life.
I knew I could do the same type of strategic and creative thinking but with people and brands of my own choosing - ones that aligned with my internal belief system.
In 2015 I left that job and started down my path of strategy consulting. For the first time, I acted on my inner knowing vs. what the outside world wanted for me. I trusted my gut, and I haven’t stopped ever since.
Over the years as my inner landscape has evolved so has the ways in which I’ve wished to show up and serve.
Today that looks like being the blend of a strategist and coach for awakened women that also want alignment and meaning in their lives and work.
I get to give them the gift of reminding them they are enough just by being who they uniquely are. Better yet - that the world needs exactly what they have to offer and they can build a business based on what feels energy-giving to them while giving and receiving in significant and meaningful ways.
WHICH BRINGS ME TO YOU:
Since 2015, I’ve been helping conscious brands align before they act to find more grounded ease as they grow.
In doing so, I help businesses increase revenue, pivot offerings and make a positive impact on the people and planet while eliminating founder burnout.
Since starting my own business, I have:
✓ Helped clients scale to 10 million in revenue
✓ Been an integral part of launching and growing conscious enterprises in a way that feels true to the founder’s essence
✓ Been the go-to expert on crafting messaging that’s clear, concise, and incites action
✓ Helped clients land media opportunities with Forbes, and prepare for countless high-profile interviews for CNN, NPR, and others - all while elevating their brand perception
WHO I WORK WITH:
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Mindful entrepreneurs, executives, experts, coaches, therapists, solopreneurs, and healers that are actually doing good for people and the planet.
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Women who know they have something worthy of sharing and are in a period of growth in their life or business. They need outside strategic and creative input to help set the most heart-led foundation that will accelerate growth.
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Founders who want to do work with intention and ease. They have clear intentions or goals but want to achieve them without the fear and FOMO that so often seems a MUST for growing a business.
Are you a founder ready to experience meaningful growth?
Pursue your Aligned Strategy experience.