Danielle Shelton Walczak, Esq.
Danielle is founder and owner of Citrine Consulting, a business service firm the provides Executive Coaching for women CEOs. Prior to that she was an executive leader across two sectors. First as a deputy city manager for the city of Minneapolis. Then as the first woman of color (and only second woman) CEO of her state’s largest pro-bono law firm in its 113 year history. In that position she oversaw five offices, 200 employees and $18+ million in revenues which increased to $26M during her two year tenure. Prior to these accomplishments, she had a successful sixteen year career as a corporate and family law litigator and law firm owner; adjunct law professor; and the first director of diversity and inclusion for her state’s bar association.
Her coaching is a unique blend of academic training, real life experience in being in the executive suite; two decades of work with her attorney clients facing setbacks or crisis; further combined with her interest and research into coaching methodologies across fields and neuroscience.
She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, and rescue cat Gertrand Russel Van Halen Shelton Walczak (aka: flirty Gertie)
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My Coaching Philosophy
“ Coaching should ultimately translate to limitlessness. But it should always start at the why and who you want to be. Then it’s observational; of your mental, emotional, and behavioral patterns. Because it’s only with conscious recognition that patterns change, therefore making the professional strategies work to get you where you want to go.”
No man is an island. Every culture around the world has persons who have reached the echelons of their profession. The majority of them have had or have coaches (whether they were actual coaches or mentors acting as coaches), despite what we may have be taught or led to believe. Everyone needs and benefits from help. As someone who has had an individual professional coach at various times during my career, and is currently a part of a group coaching program, I can say the experience is invaluable. As long as you're willing to do the work and like the accountability it provides and necessitates.