ChangeMakerDharma

A unique learning experience shaped to meet your needs.  

In an age of instant access the challenge today is not finding resources, it's choosing where to put your precious time and energy. 

Whether you're seeking coaching; culture change, organizational development or a public speaker or workshop leader; the orientation, resources, skills and energy I bring will be the same. 

Because transformation only springs from your aspiration, my goal will always be to reinforce your intentions. Beyond that, it's about bringing my best self to whatever the situation demands and honoring your intention to learn from everything you do. 

Coaching individuals and Groups

Coaching, whether offered to individuals or groups, is about creating and holding space for individuals to do their own learning. It is based on the realization that effective learning is primarily a process of self-discovery.

Done well, coaching gracefully facilitates the natural unfoldment of our innate wisdom and power, and our unique purpose and gifts.

An effective coach serves as a reflection, resource and witness for our personal growth by facilitating self-discovery, providing ready access to proven principles, practices and tools; and establishing a framework that keeps us engaged through our learning journey, until we’ve realized our cherished goals.

While the focus of a coaching relationship is determined by the needs and aspirations of the client, my work often touches similar situations and themes: 

• Coaching leaders to bring teams and organizations to peak performance. 
• Coaching changemakers to identify leverage points for culture interventions. 
• Coaching social entrepreneurs developing emerging organizations. 
• Coaching leadership teams, boards, project teams and grassroots groups. 
• Coaching individuals and groups experiencing interpersonal tension. 
• Coaching individuals to enhance meditation and mindfulness practices. 
• Coaching individuals to rediscover their purpose, vision, and mission. 
• Supporting a progressive process of personal transformation and growth.

Coaching is available in person, over the phone, or in videoconference

 Organizational Offerings 

Organizations are complex living systems requiring constant attention, discovery and intervention. Their challenges are the composite projection of all the human aspirations, stories, pathologies, structures and cultures. Successfully supporting organizations requires courage, integrity, experience and expertise grounded in a relentless passion for health, excellence and peak performance.

Done well organizational intervention responds to the highest aspirations of stakeholders while maximizing the learning, growth and joy of everyone involved.  

An effective advisor for organizational development understands that problems and opportunities are always different from how they appear and that truth in complex living systems is always relative and must be cultivated through patient listening and collective understanding grounded in wisdom and compassion.  

My work in organizations often touches similar situations and themes:

• Leadership and management coaching.

• Enhancing performance of boards, executive and management teams. 

• Supporting leadership in challenging situations and interpersonal dynamics.

• Design and delivery of organizational culture change projects.  

• Speaking or workshops designed for organizational meetings and retreats 

• Organizational development projects designed to achieve priority objectives.

Public Offerings

Meditation is one of the top trending personal growth practices today, which is also driving public interest and awareness in an array of related practices for health, success and fulfillment. My personal passion and life experience in meditation and transformational work engages audiences whenever and wherever the opportunity to share it arises.

Public Speaker and Meditation Leader

• Guest speaker at meditation centers, churches and community groups.
• Meditation leader for public events and gatherings. 
• Speaker and panelist for webinars and podcasts, and other on line events. 
• Guest lecturer for educational venues.

Workshop Facilitation

Insightful, inspiring and practical sessions designed to address the challenges and opportunities of our day, through a fusion of spiritual, psychological and practical real world experience. 

Testimonial

David is one of the most capable, strategic, and visionary organizers I know. He's a systems thinker who's good with details; a man who addresses the fierce urgency of now with imaginative, long-term, vision. He's kind, inclusive, wise, and brings a profound ethos of service to the greater good. He's the kind of guy you pick first for your team - and then never look back because you trust in your bones that you made the right choice.

Kathryn Blume - speaker, writer, activist

I’ve known David Stember professionally for two decades, so I have seen him in action guiding organizations in many different settings, and in every one he has been appreciated by those he leads as a steady hand of reason, compassion and good humor. And he does so by his reverence for the power of human beings coming together in a space of mutual respect in service of a commonly held vision. If it were up to me to summarize David’s operating philosophy, I would say, “Love the person in front of you.” Not only have I seen him establish that statement as the guiding principle of an organization, he is also able to demonstrate, by example, what it means to live it in the face of whatever life presents.

Steve Roberts - CoolMindWarmHeart.com