Coaching with Dayna - Dayna Del Val

Unlock Your Leadership Excellence with Coaching

Are you navigating organizational/structural change?

Is it time to (further) develop your leadership effectiveness?

Do you need to improve your decision-making skills?

Would you like to enhance your executive presence?

Listen to these “ah ha!” moments from a number of my clients, and then book your free discovery call to see if I’m a good fit for you!

Through personalized coaching sessions, I collaborate with leaders (or recently retired leaders looking to find their next meaningful chapter) to uncover blind spots, strengthen leadership skills and drive transformational change in their own lives and in their businesses.

Sometimes, all you need is dedicated time to work through challenges or create space for new possibilities.

I offer a supportive, curious, creative and confidential space where you can:

Identify and Articulate Your Challenges
Explore and Work Through Solutions
Develop Strategic Plans and Design a Clear Path Forward

Leadership Coaching

Leadership Development, including
- strategic decision-making
- emotional intelligence
- change management
- conflict resolution
- team building
- networking/building relationships
Creative Problem Solving, including
- addressing problems and/or identifying opportunities with unconventional tactics/strategies/prompts/assignments

Excellent Communication, including
- storytelling to engage stakeholders
- public speaking
- delivering feedback to employees
- sharing your vision
- writing for various audiences and mediums
Creating the plan around a professional transition, including
- starting a new position
- leveling up for a promotion
- retiring but not being “done”
Other challenges you may be facing

I do work with the occasional personal coaching client; let’s have a conversation to determine what you are looking to achieve and if my skill-set is the best one for your needs.

Dayna is a force multiplier for senior leaders. I've already taken concrete actions based on our conversations that have unblocked some key business challenges.

Andrew B

Strategic Advisor | Consultant

Dayna has helped me on several levels from building my business to completing major creative projects that have required lots of grit and stamina. I always leave our sessions with clarity, focus, and gratitude.

Rebecca R

Founder & CEO

My Coaching Credentials

I achieved my Certified Professional Coach (CPC) training in 2025 from Periscope Coaching, founded and led by Pamela Maxson, PhD, MCC.

To date, I have 120+ hours of coaching completed and have coached 20+ clients ranging from:

Business and nonprofit executives exploring both professional & personal challenges (there’s often so little separation between the two!)
Entrepreneurs
Mid-level managers
Founders
People wanting to shift their career (ex: moving from a technical position to a creative one in an entirely different sector)
Professionals who are recently retired and looking to find their meaningful next chapter

I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the conversations and where they go. They're a really wonderful thing.

Melissa T

Project Coordinator

Working with Dayna has been a game changer. She’s fantastic at drawing out and making room for whatever I need to unpack, helping me dig deep, process and grow.

Maggie J

Entrepreneur

About Me

I’ve spent much of my life working unofficially in a coaching capacity: as a leader and colleague, a friend, spouse, daughter and parent, a professor, the co-host of Daily Dose of Dr Marry & DD and as the founder and guide of (re)Discover Your Spark work.

Additionally, I’m:

The founder and host of the podcast, Brave Middle Ground
A former President & CEO of a nonprofit for 12+ years
A professional public speaker
A professional actor (member SAG-AFTRA) and published writer
Joyfully married for 16+ years to a man who’s been in recovery for alcoholism since 2017
Navigating mid-life and all the emotional, physical and mental elements of that
Now an empty-nester, but I was a young, single mother—both titles I couldn’t imagine taking on before they became my reality, and both titles which I grew to love…while figuring it out. Kind of the “building the airplane while flying it” method

I've benefited from coaching myself and know the value of having someone create a welcoming environment, ask open-ended questions and hold me accountable for not just talking about change but actually doing what I need to in my life to bring about those changes.

Perhaps I could be that person for you, too.

While the conversations we have aren't always easy, I always feel ready to take on what's next!

Maddy B

Communications Manager

Dayna's early training as an actor translates into her being very present in a conversation—she's a great listener and responder.

Tania B

Nonprofit Executive Director

Unlock Your Leadership Excellence with Coaching

Are you navigating organizational/structural change?

Is it time to (further) develop your leadership effectiveness?

Do you need to improve your decision-making skills?

Would you like to enhance your executive presence?

Through personalized coaching sessions, I collaborate with leaders (or recently retired leaders looking to find their next meaningful chapter) to uncover blind spots, strengthen leadership skills and drive transformational change in their own lives and in their businesses.

Sometimes, all you need is dedicated time to work through challenges or create space for new possibilities.

I offer a supportive, curious, creative and confidential space where you can:

Identify and Articulate Your Challenges

Explore and Work Through Solutions

Develop Strategic Plans and Design a Clear Path Forward

Leadership Coaching

Leadership Development, including

Creative Problem Solving, including

Excellent Communication, including

Creating the plan around a professional transition, including

Other challenges you may be facing

I do work with the occasional personal coaching client; let’s have a conversation to determine what you are looking to achieve and if my skill-set is the best one for your needs.

My Coaching Credentials

I achieved my Certified Professional Coach (CPC) training in 2025 from Periscope Coaching, founded and led by Pamela Maxson, PhD, MCC.

To date, I have 120+ hours of coaching completed and have coached 20+ clients ranging from:

Business and nonprofit executives exploring both professional & personal challenges (there’s often so little separation between the two!)

Entrepreneurs

Mid-level managers

Founders

People wanting to shift their career (ex: moving from a technical position to a creative one in an entirely different sector)

Professionals who are recently retired and looking to find their meaningful next chapter

About Me

I’ve spent much of my life working unofficially in a coaching capacity: as a leader and colleague, a friend, spouse, daughter and parent, a professor, the co-host of Daily Dose of Dr Marry & DD and as the founder and guide of (re)Discover Your Spark work.

Additionally, I’m:

The founder and host of the podcast, Brave Middle Ground

A former President & CEO of a nonprofit for 12+ years

A professional public speaker

A professional actor (member SAG-AFTRA) and published writer

Joyfully married for 16+ years to a man who’s been in recovery for alcoholism since 2017

Navigating mid-life and all the emotional, physical and mental elements of that

Now an empty-nester, but I was a young, single mother—both titles I couldn’t imagine taking on before they became my reality, and both titles which I grew to love…while figuring it out. Kind of the “building the airplane while flying it” method

I've benefited from coaching myself and know the value of having someone create a welcoming environment, ask open-ended questions and hold me accountable for not just talking about change but actually doing what I need to in my life to bring about those changes.

Perhaps I could be that person for you, too.