Christopher Dachi –

Who I Am and What I Believe

I believe that you can take control of your life by being more purposeful, intentional and adhering to your innermost values. You don’t have “to change.” You just need to rediscover who you were before life took you down roads that don’t really serve your true interests.

My objective is to help you find your right path to professional and personal growth and to lead you towards fulfilling your hopes, dreams and aspirations. In this work, I have found that people respond favorably to honesty, respect, compassion, a light touch and a strong but innocent measure of curiosity. I bring a passion and commitment to my coaching that is gentle and intense, joyous and serious, insightful yet nonjudgmental.

My previous paths led me to become a:
• Practicing attorney
• Legislative counsel for members of the U.S. House and Senate
• Civil servant at the Export-Import Bank of the U.S.
• Schedule C appointee at the Department of Agriculture’s Office of Civil Rights
• Financial consultant
• Fundraiser for non-profit organizations
• Lobbyist for a Fortune 50 corporation

Five years ago I changed my path and became a professional and personal coach. My previous experience helps me understand the challenges facing leaders in today’s workforce. Also, I can identify with individuals facing personal and professional challenges. Having grown up as the son of a Foreign Service officer (living in six countries in eleven years), I learned to treasure the diversity of peoples from different cultures, creeds, ethnicities, and personal and political orientations. I am available to coach Spanish speaking clients. I have a BA and JD from George Washington University and an advanced certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University.

My clients have included senior government executives, an investment banker, lawyers, a middle school teacher, a novelist, small business owners, executives of non-profit organizations, and other individuals trying to improve their relationships, make career transitions, improve their dating lives, deal with life changes such as divorce and many other issues. I am a member of the International Coach Federation and have more than 1,000 hours of direct client coaching experience.

How Does My Coaching Process Work?

I adjust the process to you. My prerequisite is that you want something better from your life. My model incorporates the basic coactive coaching techniques that more than two-thirds of the Fortune 500 companies use with their own leaders. I also offer personal and professional mentoring, philosophical and spiritual support. Plus a healthy dose of common sense in a world that often seems to make little sense.

My coaching begins with a curious, even playful, examination of your "story" - the beliefs you hold about yourself and the world that may guide you to certain, often unsatisfactory, results. 

Example Of A "Story"

"I've always been the responsible one in my family. I want to be an artist, but that's irresponsible. My parents will be disappointed. I will get an MBA instead."

The true artist isn't happy as a financial analyst; so she moves on to some other "responsible" profession. The way she has constructed her story – or life script – limits the options she will even consider. This becomes a repeating pattern. Instead of looking at new ideas, she goes back to the same list of options from which she chose in the first place.. 

Re-Writing Your Story

When you have the courage to re-write your story, you will see new options. You can begin to make different choices and improve your life. My baseline is to examine your current story, how it has gotten you where you are now and how it may be preventing you from getting where you want to be. To change your life you have to IMAGINE YOUR POSSIBILITES!

The next step is for you to recognize your true core values. From there, we move to determine if you are living your life in accordance with those values. With this new appreciation of your values, we can begin the process of tearing down a fundamental paradigm by which people often mistakenly lead their lives: “What” we do is more important than “who” we are or "how" we live in the world. All too often people get caught up and lost in the questions of "what" job to take or "what" to do about a particular relationship. Most often the answer to these questions comes when you look inward and are true to your values. Focus on "how" to work best, "how" to be in relationships and "how" to act in the world. If you get the "how" right, the "what" will become apparent on its own.

. Incorporate Your Values into Your Decision-Making

The next step is to incorporate your values into a decision-making model that is tactical, sound and designed to ensure that, whatever the result, you can live with your decision. No guilt, remorse or regret. My coaching process helps you take steps along the path toward new ways of seeing, hearing and thinking. I help you IMAGINE YOUR POSSIBLITIES!