Diana K.

Diana K.

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Expert Career Coach for early and midcareer professionals | 200+ Coached

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Admissions Committee at New York University

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Hiring Manager at Makerspace Talent LLC

Available Wednesday at 2:00 PM UTC

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Diana's Coaching Offerings

Custom hourly · $125/hr

Get help with Interview Prep, Career Planning, and .

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Diana’s Career Coaching Qualifications

Coaches professionally

Experience level: Director

100+ people coached for Career Coaching

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Diana's work experience includes serving as an in-house coach to early career employees, high potentials, and new people managers at the National Basketball Association, as well as leading talent development and culture-building at a national nonprofit. An experienced recruiter and interviewing skills coach, her professional journey started as a university career counselor. She is certified as an Associate Diversity Coach, Hogan and MBTI practitioner, and trains on the human experience of change in organizations. She received her BS in Communications and MA in Higher Education from New York University.

Diana can help with:

Interview Prep

Career Planning

Cover Letters

Professional Networking

Resume Review

Personal Branding

Networking Strategy

Leadership

Salary Negotiation

Job Search Strategies

General Exploration

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About Diana

Hello and thanks for your curiosity in partnering! I coach early and midcareer professionals hone in on what they want next, and partner with them on the steps of getting from point A to B. My career started in university admissions (NYU) and career counseling (Columbia University). Within those roles, I worked with hundreds of undergraduates and graduate students to understand, assess and convey their unique interests, skills and values; I am familiar with the rhythm of on-campus recruiting, and just as familiar with supporting alumni, liberal arts and non-traditional students create their own adventures. I carried these experiences with me to become an recruiter within the social impact sector, designing selection processes and supporting hiring managers identify great talent at every level of the org chart. I also focused on internal mobility, designing programs for leadership and manager development, and acting as an in-house career coach to support staff in building their careers. After a couple of years leading a rotational program at the National Basketball Association (NBA) and running high-potential programs, I pursued additional training to concretize my on-the-job learning and become a professional coach. In recent years, I've worked as a career coach for competitive fellowship programs (Questbridge, Samvid Scholars), served as a leadership coach for rising leaders at the ACLU, supported dozens of folks in ensuring their genius is at work and their vaues are in alignment, and have facilitated executive learning programs on topics like leading through change , and personality at work. I also still work as an executive recruiter, side hustling to enable great organizations to connect with great talent. I believe there is joy in the work, and it shouldn't be WORK to work. My coaching partnerships are grounded in this, along with levity, healthy irreverance, and a heaping portion of compassion.

Why do I coach?

Many many moons ago, my "What are you going to be when you grow up?" response would have been something to do with media, journalism, or other creative industries. Through the fortunate lessons of internships and early career stints, I quickly learned what I did NOT want to do and where my personal values felt misaligned from the workplace or aims of a company bottomline. I was an undergrad Communications major who, over time, felt more and more pulled to the interpersonal side of storytelling and creating. Looking back, this was always my thread. I had an early preoccupation with "What is possible?" and dreaming about different futures. I became the de facto college and career counselor among friends, helping them with applications. As the child of an immigrant parent, I also often helped with job applications and resume writing. Fast forward and tack on formal training and nearly two decades of coaching in one form or another. While my personal job functions have moseyed across industries and into recruiting, talent development and organizational culture building, what's underneath is the same - spotting possibility, identifying unique threads, and helping others craft their stories as they dream up what's next.

Work Experience

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Lead Talent Partner, Executive & Career Coach

Makerspace Talent LLC

October 2021 - Present

Talent strategy, executive search, and emerging leader coaching, teambuilding and facilitation. Currently managing a portfolio of work centered in talent & inclusion, and in partnership with an incredible network of Talent, OD, and Equity Leaders + Consultants. We collaborate with individuals, start-ups and small sized organizations on the brink of change, ready to explore, tinker, and try on new ways of being and doing. Through consulting, coaching and experiential learning, we focus on culture-building, developing leaders, and designing values-aligned people programs and practices. With significant experience in career, leadership and organizational development, and grounded in levity, healthy irreverence, and compassion, we see intentional experimentation at the heart of creation, learning and individual and organizational transformation. We are a makerspace for humans @ work.

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Talent & Learning Leader

National Basketball Association

October 2019 - September 2021

Interviewer

Oversaw US-based learning and development programming as part of an integrated talent management strategy, with a focus on early to mid-career populations. Served as lead for the NBA's Associate Program (early career, high potential), led implementation strategies for online learning solution providers like Mind Tools and Coursera, designed and delivered cohort-based Career Development 101 learning journey, curated, designed and facilitated manager development programming, partnered with subject matter experts for Leaders as Teachers, and served as an in-house consultant on team development solutions. It's bigger than basketball.

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Application Reader

New York University

October 2018 - February 2019

Admissions Committee

Read applications from US candidates and recommend admissions decisions for NYU Shanghai's campus.

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Director of Talent & Culture

iMentor

2011 - 2019

Hiring Manager

Talent Management, Learning & Development, Culture-Building & Engagement Strategies Provided complete human capital support to departments throughout the employee career cycle including: role design, internal and external recruiting, employee engagement, staff development, change management, and offboarding. Coached managers on navigating employee relations issues, fostering career development and delivering feedback. Learning & Development: Co-designed, launched and integrated the org's first leadership competency model. Identified scalable strategies for training and development during a period of national expansion, as well as with an increasingly remote workforce. Led L&D organizational strategy, designed professional development learning paths for managers, internal hiring/mobility process, and served as Talent content SME for Staff Learning Center. Culture & Engagement: In collaboration with the Executive Office, led an org-wide committee to plan annual 2-day all-staff retreat; soup-to-nuts project management, including identifying a theme, determining content for general assembly, procuring speakers, leading teambuilding, and working with vendors on venue, menu and swag. Cultivated and activated culture drivers to support organizational development within iMentor’s new regional structure, assembling a “Team Fun” Leadership committee. Partnered with Director of Equity to ensure that iMentor's workplace initiatives and signature staff experiences advance the organization's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. Full-cycle recruiting, including scoping ideal candidate profiles, designing candidate selection processes, and pipeline building. Modeled behavioral and competency-based interviewing, and trained and coached all interviewers in inclusive hiring practices.

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Assistant Director of Experiential Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

2008 - 2010

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Admissions Counselor; Career Development Counselor

New York University

2006 - 2009

Admissions Committee

Education

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New York University

MA, Higher Education

Activities and societies: Association for Student Affairs Professionals - Public Relations Chair, Journal of Student Affairs - Author (2008), Content Editor (2007) Concentrations: Counseling, Global Higher Education (International coursework in Mexico, Costa Rica and Israel)

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New York University

Bachelor's Degree, Communcations

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Howard University School of Business

Executive Certification in Diversity Coaching

2021 - 2021

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