
Welcome to the Personal Development Trailblazers Podcast! In today’s episode, we’re helping leaders navigate change with confidence and thrive through every transition.
Desmond Dodd coaches high-achieving professionals and entrepreneurs navigating big life, career, and geographic transitions—helping them thrive through change, not just survive it.
Desmond’s own diverse career brought dozens of his own job and leadership transitions, expatriations ,and repatriations, juggling growing professional roles and family responsibilities—learning firsthand that major transitions bring huge growth opportunities, if you don’t just push through the overwhelm. Rather he learned how to use transitions as a springboard for deep self-exploration and understanding.
Desmond's diverse and successful career began in international and financial journalism, working in cities like Washington, Hong Kong, and Bangkok. A passion for contributing to expanded opportunities worldwide led to international development consulting in Cairo and then nearly two decades leading marketing and communications with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, in East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. He spent more than a decade living in Johannesburg. He continues to write and consult on issues around business and global society, including for the Harvard Business School.
Along the way, Desmond took an adventurous detour: buying and running a wine farm in Argentina. In the process he earned a professional winemaking certification from UC Davis.
More recently, Desmond was certified as a Jungian Life Coach through the International Coaching Federation-accredited Creative Mind University, Desmond now partners with entrepreneurs, senior leaders and other aspiring professionals with a growth mindset who are in transition to new roles or eager to challenge themselves by working with change, both planned and unexpected. His coaching approach focuses on deep self-understanding, tapping the unconscious mind, and seizing opportunities for transformative success and lasting fulfillment. He is open to helping clients around the globe who resonate with his experience and approach.
Desmond went to college at Cornell University, and has graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies. He blends that traditional education with real-world experience and a coaching methodology based on Jungian psychology, modern neuroscience, and Eastern spirituality to guide clients toward their full potential.
Desmond is the father of two adult children, and manages his consulting and coaching business from his office and home in Little Washington, Virginia, about 60 miles west of Big Washington, DC.
Connect with Desmond Here:
IG: @revision.depth.coaching
Substack: @desmonddepthcoach
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/desmond-dodd/
Website: www.revisiondepthcoaching.com
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