Darby Davenport
EXECUTIVE COACH AND LEADERSHIP CONSULTANT
San Francisco, CA
SUMMARY
Darby has spent her 25+ year career working with individuals, teams and organizations to build capability, enhance leadership consciousness and increase overall performance. She works with leaders and teams to:
Scale their leadership impact and performance
Develop their ability to influence culture, manage stakeholders and support organizational change
Enhance self-awareness, personal effectiveness and emotional intelligence
Build clarity, alignment and trust
In her teaming and leadership consulting work, Darby helps define and cultivate mindsets, behaviors and capabilities that support the organization’s aspirations. Her specialty is designing business-relevant and meaningful opportunities for learning, insight and application coupled with sustained support and coaching to generate lasting results.
As a coach, Darby is deeply committed to developing passionate, insightful and authentic leaders who evoke excellence, commitment and innovation from those around them. Darby uses an integral ‘whole person’ approach to her coaching, incorporating the dimensions of ‘being’ and ‘doing’ as critical to one’s growth. Darby encourages her clients to harness curiosity, see new possibilities, shift mindsets and implement sustainable shifts.
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND
Her experience uniquely integrates a background in change management, business strategy, organization development and leadership coaching that positions her as a valued business partner and a skillful coach. Prior to becoming a full-time coach, Darby worked as Sr. Principal of Organization Development at Genentech where she supported executive leaders and teams as they navigated through a demanding and evolving global landscape. In other previous roles, Darby ran a change leadership practice for a boutique consulting firm, was a strategy consultant in the consumer goods industry and spent several years as a change management consultant at Accenture.
Darby received her coaching credential from New Ventures West in San Francisco. She has been studying and using the Enneagram as a transformative development tool for the several years and it has since become an important part of her work with individuals and teams.
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
I had the pleasure to work closely over time with Darby. Together we focused on enhancing leadership behaviors and shifting to a more positive and collaborative way of working together. My global leadership team consisted of 9 direct reports managing 450 team members. Darby’s expertise, professionalism, and warm style made the team’s transformation feel natural and provided consistent positive results.– VP, Technical Operations, Roche
I️ have worked with Darby for a number of years across multiple change and organizational development initiatives. Darby is a pleasure to work with. She quickly establishes rapport with the team/organization and has been very successful in enhancing team and leadership effectiveness and driving desired organizational and cultural change.– EVP Translational Sciences, Chief Quality Operations Officer at Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical
RECENT CLIENTS
Electronic Arts
Gap
Genentech/Roche
Gilead
Griffols
Myokardia
UC San Francisco
EDUCATION
MBA, Strategy University of Michigan
BA, Org Communications UC Santa Barbara
ASSESSMENT & CERTIFICATIONS
New Ventures West Certified Coach
Integrative Enneagram (iEQ9 ) Assessment
Enneagram in Business
Neuroleadership Institute
Leadership Circle Profile 360
INSPIRATIONS
Growth & development
Travel adventures
Parenting teens
Good food
Outdoors