I am an award-winning marketing communications professional. The managing partner of D. Gray-Young, Inc. a coaching and consulting firm that works with corporations and individuals. In June 2016, I wrapped a 30+ year advertising career where I was highly regarded for my strategic insight and business savvy.

I am an ICF accredited coach, trained by one of the premier coaching schools in the US, the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching.  IPEC’s comprehensive and rigorous ICF accredited curriculum prepared me to provide the highest quality coaching techniques and services to you.  I currently hold the PCC (Professional Certified Coach) certification.

My mission today is to help professional women of color better manage their personal and professional brands to achieve their next levels of success.

In addition to being a Certified Professional Coach, I am certified as a DISC and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner.  Translation: I am certified in an assessment tool that can help you better understand how your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are creating and influencing your life. Once you are consciously aware of how your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual energy is serving you on any given day, you are empowered to consciously manage and direct where that energy is focused.

This is critical to understanding how to be conscious of what you believe and how you show up and how not to be an unwitting victim to your own thoughts, feelings, and beliefs as well as others. In short, how to minimize if not entirely eliminate the drama from your life and not be impacted by other people’s drama.