Cathy Davis
Cathy is the program designer for the Strategic Coach® Program, and even likes to be on hand to connect with participants arriving for their workshops.
Cathy Davis seems to be everywhere at Strategic Coach®. As one of two people who directly support Dan Sullivan, she manages projects, is a program designer for the Strategic Coach® Program, and even likes to be on hand to connect with participants arriving for their workshops.
It’s a role she’s evolved into since starting with the company in 2001. To her, these disparate jobs make sense because they share a common theme: being useful by solving puzzles. “I just like fitting pieces together,” she says, “and sometimes I’m the piece.” One of her favorite opportunities to be that missing piece is coaching The Unique EDGE®, a Strategic Coach program for young adults. “It really is an ‘if I knew then what I know now’ program,” she says. “I’m happy where I ended up, but it would have made things a lot easier to have that extra bit of focus back then. There were some angsty moments when I didn’t know what the heck was going on.”
Now Cathy gets to provide other young people with tools for making these life choices with greater ease and confidence. And even though these are weighty decisions, she takes a light approach when coaching: “I don’t think being professional and being fun are mutually exclusive. Dan is a great role model for that: He plays at the front of the room when he coaches. So I can just be myself when I’m up there—that’s actually what’s needed.”
One of the first things she communicates to the participants is that the program is not about Strategic Coach, their parents, or her, but about them and the bigger future they want to create. “I’m not going to judge who they are or what they want to do,” she says. In her spare time, Cathy is a self-described “entertainment junkie,” watching movies and devouring books.
She’s just as excited about entertaining others, and is currently writing a series of children’s books. Another passion is curling at a competitive level, which she plans to do even more often as her life takes a new twist.
