D.Ford’s Visionary Coaching Approach

D.Ford Consulting uses a signature “Mastery of Internal Dialogue” approach that has proven to help clients identify core issues that are directly linked to unfocused, harmful behaviors which can be discovered in individual AND organizational work. These services will help you dig beyond the surface to develop a plan which includes tools and methods that move away from harm and into healthier practices. While every client has their own unique needs, Our Visionary approach guides clients through a complete journey that leaves no stone unturned while remaining attuned to purpose. You can expect to go through a process that incorporates the following phases to reach your goals:

Phases of Your Experience

Exploration of needs (individual and/or organizational) 

Identification of areas which strengthen you and factors that can hinder you

Intention leads the development of a meaningful plan

Application of strategies driven by purpose 

D.FORD Pillars of Purpose

Lens of connectedness — Everything we experience is part of our paths.

Well-informed strategies — Seek ways to address unmet needs.

Matter of impact — What we want to be known for?

Values that evoke accountability — What values will we hold our ourselves accountable to?

My Personal Journey Using This Approach

In the last decade, I experienced some life-altering changes that I had no choice but to reflect on. In those challenging moments, I had to be honest with myself and acknowledge patterns in almost every area of my life. Through positive and negative experiences, I formed several harmful habits that created a false sense of confidence to protect me from feeling disappointment. It became so functional that I used them to construct various avenues of success. However, these experiences still pulled me from the person I believed myself to be. I found reasons to be unsatisfied with the progress I was making.

Through genuine self-reflection, I discovered my thought patterns and how I was speaking to myself was not a reflection of the life I wanted to live. The false sense of security was a product of not knowing how to control my self-talk patterns that were feeding my internal “narratives”- I felt like I was playing a role to appease anyone who could help me accomplish my goals. Taking that step back revealed I spent too much time engaging on a surface level with myself and others. That became the seed of change.

The experience made me accept that I was unfulfilled due to how my internal thoughts were narrating my life experiences. Subconsciously, I was creating universal bad habits that got in the way of real satisfaction. Acknowledging this psychological journey helped me utilize creative mental exercises to get to the core of those bad habits to correct them. From there, my newly formed patterns to create meaningful goals were represented in the work I was doing with others, and I knew the impact could create change.

The moral of the story: Acknowledging my false narrative was at the core of making poor choices. Accepting that I needed tools to control my internal dialogue made me believe that real change was possible. And now, I am privileged to lead others on a similar journey of genuine fulfillment.