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Anese Cavanaugh, founder of Dare To Engage®, is devoted to helping forward thinking individuals, business leaders, and entrepreneurs create better business results while they build a more authentically engaged workforce, stronger leadership and greater personal sustainability throughout their organizations. With degrees and credentials in the areas of kinesiology, leadership development, productivity, coaching, and wellness, Anese brings a fresh perspective to fully engaged living and leadership, celebrating and honoring the hero within each person.
For more about Anese or the Dare To Engage® Programs, or to receive a complimentary copy of our latest publication, go to www.DareToEngage.com or call 1.877.994.DARE (3273)
Background
In 2002, Anese founded Active Choices, Inc. (ACI), a coaching and training group that specialized in creating sustainable leadership by helping organizations and leaders develop their leadership while maximizing their health and productivity. It was out of this work that the Dare To Engage® Programs were born and in 2007, Active Choices, Inc. was rebranded as Dare To Engage, Inc.
Building upon all of the best pieces of Active Choices and her work done with clients in those programs, the Dare To Engage Programs take it a step further, more intensely focusing on helping leaders and teams dare to become more fully engaged and effective, while practicing extreme self-care and improving their vitality and personal sustainability. An evolution of Active Choices with an even deeper and richer experience of achieving full engagement in the important areas of one’s life, these programs have received rave reviews from clients and a lot of attention in the press.
Anese brings 18 years of experience as a coach, author and speaker, working with individuals and teams to address areas such as: performance improvement, peer communication, team development and facilitation, on-site corporate health promotion, sustainable leadership development, employee commitment and satisfaction, corporate health and safety initiatives, athletic and physical training, and hospital health care initiatives.
Through coaching, training, writing, public speaking, and daring, she challenges human beings to self lead, creating sustainability and full engagement in their work and lives. She thrives in helping people find their "oomph" and in creating vitality and their own dynamic energy, both personally and professionally.
Described as having a balance of tenacity, playfulness, passion and warmth, she is committed to helping clients obtain their desired results. Her ability to create safe space for learning, to cut to the essence of the matter, to create learning from every situation and to see the brilliance in each individual, assists her clients in reaching their personal and professional goals. Whether the desired outcomes are for stronger leadership, greater health, or a more balanced life, she supports clients via coaching, consulting, training and challenging, yet playful, daring.
In addition to working with private clients, Anese is routinely asked by Fortune 500 and cutting edge entrepreneurial companies to help their people make the kind of impact they know they must have as leaders to succeed. She has worked with an inspiring list of clients that include leaders, individuals and teams in organizations such as: IDEO, Swedish American Health System, LifeTime Fitness, the Illinois Society for Association Executives, the Wonderland Center, many entrepreneurial small businesses, and several other client and government agencies, including Fortune 10 companies (we’re not at liberty to disclose due to confidentiality agreements.)
A professionally trained accredited coach with thousands of hours of “in the trenches” coaching, facilitation and training experience working with leaders in an impressive array of industries, she has also served as a speaker for events involving local business councils and trade organizations, leadership conferences and employee development.
She loves working with individuals and teams who want to create a significant positive impact in the world through their business, while having a fabulous life and creating a positive impact at home as well!
She lives in St. Charles, Illinois (outside of Chicago) with her husband and 2 children.
Credentials and Training
Anese holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from California State University, Hayward and holds current credentials and memberships in the following areas:
- Certified Professional Co-Active Coach through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), Certified Wellness Coach with WellCoaches Corporation (in partnership with the ACSM),
- Certified Health/Fitness Instructor with the ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine)
- Graduate of CTI's Co-Active Leadership Program
- Certified Administrator and Facilitator of the 5Dynamics Assessment Tool
- Member of the ICF (International Coach Federation), ACSM, and past member of the IHPM (Institute for Health & Productivity Management), as well as other local Business Councils
A licensed user of The Arbinger Institute materials in her work with one on one clients, having graduated from both their Coaching Program and their Facilitator Training Program, Anese is also a member of the Arbinger Helping Professionals Network (AHPN), a group of therapists, counselors and coaches dedicated to being an out of the box place for their clients.
Committed to professional excellence and staying on the cutting edge of the industry, Anese has had extensive ongoing professional development, training and coaching. Some of the institutions and areas she has trained with (and in some cases continues training) include, but are not limited to, the following:
The Coaches Training Institute (CTI), CTI's Co-Active Leadership Program, CTI's Organizational Relationship & Systems Coaching, The Arbinger Institute, The Bigger Game Company, Spherical Dynamics, Inc., The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), WellCoaches Corporation, and the American Association of Lifestyle Counselors. She also actively works with her own coaches in the areas of personal and leadership development as well a business development, and is a member of an her own business mastermind group consisting of a talented group of business owners from a mix of industries.
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