“Shhhhhh ….Art Dielhenn is my secret weapon….shhhhhh.”
Promoted: Assistant to Location Manager
“Art’s insight and guidance were invaluable. He helped refine my understanding of my strengths and developmental opportunities.His experience and skill facilitated practical improvement, new approaches and defining solutions.I am a more complete manager and leader as a result.”
Leadership Skills Development: Senior VP Business Development.
“I have changed careers from Director of HR, where I was completely burnt out, to a rewarding one in Health Care as Director of Philanthropy. With understanding beyond words and a no nonsense approach, Art’s coaching shifted my efforts from neutral into high gear. The coaching process will activate anyone who is ready, willing, and excited to move forward with greater authority, clarity and success. I can’t emphasize enough the level of positive impact Art’s coaching has had on both my career and personal life.”
Transitioned: HR Director to Director of Philanthropy
“As the walls were crumbling around me, Art picked me up, dusted me off and offered me a calm wise guide toward life and career alternatives.”
Hired: To Direct a Movie of the Week
“Art played an instrumental role in escalating my career by providing me with the tools, mindset and courage needed to land my dream job.”
Transitioned: Media Sales to Network Field Producer,
“Art was so helpful to me at a crucial juncture in my career. He helped me focus my energy and develop my pitch for the networks. I sold my series. His motivation and support were key to my success. I could not have done it without him.”
Series Picked-Up: Writer-Director
“Your coaching helped me see and experience a much fuller sense of the
beauty and possibility in my life. The journey wasn’t always easy, but it
was always enriching. I feel like I’m standing on a mountain top
overlooking my future with a deep sense of wonder and joy”
Professional Jumpstart: Professor
“I have had the pleasure of working with Art over the past year. This was my first experience with an executive coach, so I was not sure what to expect. I found the overall experience to be highly satisfying and professionally rejuvenating.
Art’s best attribute is his ability help his clients focus on their strengths and working with them to build upon those attributes.
While I certainly was a client of Art’s he never made me feel as such. On the contrary, Art’s passion toward the betterment of self makes one feel as if he is a true friend who is as vested in your success as you are. I would have no qualms recommending Art to other managers or executives seeking professional coaching services.
Working with an executive coach was highly productive and professionally rejuvenating. I was in a rut and needed a shake up. I was able to re-commit, renew my passion and discover new ways to communicate, cooperate, and partner. Art’s relaxed style made the process accessible and positive even when confronted with difficult stakeholder feedback and 360 evaluations. Art was committed to my success. Our work together saved my job and gave me new fuel for future success.”
Leadership Skills Development: Senior Director of Production Operations, LA
“When I started coaching with Art, I was in a very dark place in my career. With his help, I was able to change some negative patterns that were sabotaging my ability to get back to work. Now my confidence is where it needs to be for success.”
Hired: First AD on New Prime Time Series, LA
“There are many paths to take to reach your goals. Art helps you design and accelerate the most effective one for you.”
Transitioned: Media Software to Fashion Sales Rep.
“Thank you ART, my Business keeps GROWING. You are amazing. I’m very grateful for your kindness, insight and LIFE CHANGING COACHING!”
Business Development: Real Estate Agent
“I was stuck and overcome with self-pity and despair. Art helped me show up for myself, and get back on the road. Not only have I reached my recent career objectives, but my personal relationships have greatly benefited as well. Committing to coaching and change was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. But being on the other side feels great!”
Hired: Producer/Director
“Art’s ability to separate the negative inner voice from reality will give you a superpower you never knew existed. Non-judgmental, insightful, constructive; his coaching addresses your burden then sets you off to a new mark with clarity, confidence and purpose.”
Business Development: Landscape Architect
“Coaching helped me re-define my approach to my career. I found new authentic ways to reach out, serve customers, and develop new business.”
Business Development: Sales
“Art’s consistent support gave me the courage to make changes. Our work focused my career. I wrote my book and got it published. YEAH!!!!!”
Book Published: Writer
“I just started coaching with Art three months ago and for the first time ever I met my income projections.”
Business Development: Voice Artist
“Art helped me make the move from 2nd AD to 1st AD. His knowledge of the business coupled with his willingness to challenge my limiting beliefs, accelerated the whole process.”
Transitioned: From 2nd to 1st Assistant Director
“This past year was extremely trying and unstable. Many aspects of my life collapsed in on each other leaving me deadlocked. I had no idea that this was often the source of my anxiety. You helped me separate and identify the individual issues and deal with them in a orderly progressive way. I never would have followed through with grad school applications, or redesigning my promotional materials in such a rocky period. You helped me stay on track. You also helped me sort out and exit from a damaging relationship and keep a good one healthy. Coaching saved me last year. I am living the exciting results right now.”
Transitioned: To Graduate School
“From our first conversation we clicked and literally steam rolled through 3 months of weekly sessions. After 5 minutes you convinced me that I wasn’t crazy and we were off and running. You made the coaching process interactive, thought provoking, challenging, and enjoyable. The five minute vent session at the beginning of every meeting and our work on my negative thinking really helped. If all of your clients have the type of sessions that we had, you will go straight to heaven because you truly are a saint in the making.”
Business Development: Business Owner
“I came to work with Art at a time when I simply felt lost. So lost, in fact, that I couldn’t begin to know where to start getting myself back on track. Art’s coaching process helped me regain focus on what I wanted in life. Coaching correlated my core values with my them with my core values. most importantly by getting me back in touch with the core values I had lost track of, the ones that I had always wanted to drive the course of my life. I thank you for your help, and look forward to working with you again in the future.”
Career Development: Performer
“One of the most helpful aspects of the coaching process for me was being prompted to be pro-active. I tend to feel helpless when the circumstances of life or career don’t go my way. The coaching process helps me transform feeling victimized into being empowered. My coach’s pointed questioning forces me to get out of denial about how bad my situation is. He prompts me to research solutions to the problems I’m facing and helps me evaluate the appropriateness of each one for me. Having to be accountable to my coach once a week keeps me focused on what I can do to make my life better instead of letting myself passively soak in a puddle of woe. My coach’s consistent support somehow gives me courage to make changes. The result is that I feel more powerful and in charge of my life.”
Book Published: Writer
“Coaching trimmed the fat and put me on a straighter path to my individual wants, desires and needs. It got me to the heart of my career objectives. In the process, I felt supported and encouraged to succeed while staying focused and on track. It has given me the tools to reach goals I felt were unattainable. Your coaching held me learn to be accountable to myself. Harsh as it sounds, if nothing’s happening, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself. If you’re truly into the “coaching” process you don’t want to be caught lying to yourself! What’s the point!”
Business Development: Musician
“First off, I want to thank you for being the great coach and friend that you have been and will continue to be. Your willingness to put yourself out there and leap into the great unknown is a very rare and powerful gift that drew me to your coaching style. I knew that if you were willing to go there, then you would be there for me on my coaching journeys. As you know, I have a problem with “woo woo” language. I wanted a coach who wasn’t going to give me catch phrases or new age rhetoric. Instead I wanted someone who would communicate in “regular speak” and help me forward my own action.
Art, you made it so easy for me. Knowing that you understood where I was coming from made the process so smooth and enjoyable. How many people can say that they actually had fun facing their gremlins and instituting life changing systems into their soul? I can! I still use the inquiries and perspective wheels we worked on to continue moving forward. Such great and powerful gifts from each and every phone call. The greatest gift that you gave me as a coach is just being Art.”
Business Development: Business Owner
“In the past, accomplishing for others has never been a problem for me, but realizing even my own smallest goals and wishes was an almost impossible task. Even several months after finishing up my weekly sessions with Art, I am most amazed at how often I continue to remember to sort through the day’s constant barrage of incoming thoughts and demands to find my own one, true voice; the one that has my best interest at heart.
Though the need to please others often still figures into my decision making process, I am now more able to stop and analyze the cost of doing so, and then to decide to do things I want to because it is best for me, not because I am afraid to disappoint others. And it has been amazing how often my friends and co-workers are not offended at all my decisions, but rally around to help me as I have so often done.
Though there is work ahead, I have begun to learn to differentiate between my life and my fears. For the first time in years, I am excited by the prospect of realizing some of my plans for myself now that I have been introduced to effective life skills that let me bring myself back to my life at those time when old habits try to take me away.”
Personal & Business Development: Administrator
“Coaching helped me re-define my approach to my career. Everything was stale. I found new authentic ways to reach out, serve customers, and develop new business. I have acquired skill sets and found a new empowered attitude that is enhancing my overall productivity leading to increased sales and greater prosperity for both my employers and me.”
Business Development: Food Service Sales Rep.
“At the start, I wanted to begin a new business venture. But as we explored this, I realized that other issues were more pressing. I was able to prioritize and shift focus to selling my existing business, and plan my move back to England. I found coaching to be flexible and encompassing; not narrowly focused. That’s one quality of coaching I greatly valued with you and would want to convey to someone considering it. Thins aren’t always what they appear. Sometimes the real work is hidden. The second is that coaching penetrates quite deeply into one’s psychology (without being therapy) and links this realm to the practical real-world problems. I am most impressed by the methods of coaching; it is a huge step ahead of the other forms of personal support out there.”
Business Development: Furniture Designer/Builder
“I am an attorney turned real estate developer. My investor pool was aging and shrinking and as a result so was my business. I was feeling stuck and down on myself.
Art was referred by one of my long time investors. I didn’t believe that a coach, who had never been in my profession, could help me restructure my business. I procrastinated. Things got worse.
Finally I called Art. In my first session we discussed my key areas of concern and my resistance to addressing conditions that were affecting my bottom line. He helped me examine the source of my resistance and by the end of the session I had a clearer view of the “issues” that were holding me back.
From the very beginning we focused on leveraging my strengths. Instead of viewing change as threatening, I started to see its strategic value. I was able to adjust some old patterns and replace them with real workable options that felt renewing. As I got into action my mood lifted and I started getting excited and re-energized about the business potentials that have always existed for me. I have been successful before. I proved I could be successful again. I just needed to regroup, commit to some new approaches and get back on track.
Today I am in gear and thriving and so is my business. I doubt this would have happened without Art’s patience, insight and guidance.”
Business Re-Structure: Real Estate Developer
“To learn to manage the negative voices and concepts in my own head was a real gift and has greatly enhanced the quality of my life. When I started to peek out from underneath the shadow of my own hurtful thinking, I started feeling like a new person. Coaching gave me the tools to manage these negative voices, these gremlins; these accumulated negative voices and concepts that were really collaborating to limit the quality of my life. I came to coaching because I had a vague sense that I was living under a dark cloud. I hoped that there was a better life out there for me.
What I discovered exceeded all my expectations. Coaching helped me recognize, honor, clarify and most importantly, act out of my true self and step out from under that cloud of self-defeating negativity and worn out excuses. I was able look past the clutter, distractions and obstacles and acquire some great tools to bring focus and direction back to my life. Coaching challenged me to inhabit the authority of my best self and take back control of my life. Art was a great source of support and partner in a process of self-discovery. He helped me face my demons, clarify my desires and act from my heart.”
Hired: Manager of Multi-Media Production