About Dana

Building the

person behind

sustainable

change

About Dana

Building the person behind sustainable change

Dana’s perspective

The pattern underneath

the strategy

Across a 20-year corporate career and more than a decade of coaching, Dana kept encountering the same pattern: people with real motivation who had tried real strategies, sometimes for years, and still were not where they wanted to be.

It was not because they lacked information or willpower. It was not always because the strategy was wrong. The missing layer was the ground beneath it: the identity, beliefs, capacity, and internal conditions of the person being asked to change.

That insight became the thesis behind Dana’s keynotes, workshops, books, and courses: sustainable change does not begin with the behavior. It begins with the person doing the behavior. Build the ground first, and the strategy finally has somewhere to hold.

Her work applies that principle across corporate wellness, health behavior, functional nutrition, burnout, resilience, and personal growth, combining evidence with language audiences can understand and use.

Dana’s perspective

The pattern underneath the strategy

Across a 20-year corporate career and more than a decade of coaching, Dana kept encountering the same pattern: people with real motivation who had tried real strategies, sometimes for years, and still were not where they wanted to be.

It was not because they lacked information or willpower. It was not always because the strategy was wrong. The missing layer was the ground beneath it: the identity, beliefs, capacity, and internal conditions of the person being asked to change.

That insight became the thesis behind Dana’s keynotes, workshops, books, and courses: sustainable change does not begin with the behavior. It begins with the person doing the behavior. Build the ground first, and the strategy finally has somewhere to hold.

Her work applies that principle across corporate wellness, health behavior, functional nutrition, burnout, resilience, and personal growth, combining evidence with language audiences can understand and use.

Credentials

An expert you can trust

Published author

Author of The Empowered Eater and The 10 Acts of Strength.

NBC-HWC, BCFNP

Credentialed expertise across holistic health, functional nutrition and behavior change.

Featured in NY Weekly & more

Including Women's Week and other national outlets.

30+ years of perspective

A 20-year corporate career followed by more than a decade coaching people through real change.

PHILOsOPHY

What I believe

Authenticity over polish.

Practical strategies over empty platitudes.

Progress over perfection.

Your journey, your rules.

Bring the conversation to your audience.

Author / Thought Leader / Speaker

Keynotes, books, courses, and evidence-informed

frameworks that build the person behind sustainable

change. Based in Tampa Bay, working nationwide.

Keynotes, books, courses, and evidence-informed frameworks that build the person behind sustainable change. Based in Tampa Bay, working nationwide.

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