Coaching Course
Who Do You Want to Be? Coaching with The Empowerment Dynamic
This course will take you through a journey of self-discovery with exceptional parallels to help connect clients with purpose. I highly recommend this journey to anyone working in leadership, coaching & personal development. You will not find a unique and relevant experience like this elsewhere.”
Julie Fox; Founder & CEO – Engage2LeadNext course begins Tuesday, September 20, 2022

The Who Do You Want to Be? coaching course is an online course that blends life-changing insights with small group practice and real-time experiential learning.
Facilitated by Donna Zajonc, MCC, Ann Deaton, Ph.D., PCC and Anne Marie Clear, PCC
This groundbreaking personal development experience is designed for professional coaches, experienced human resource specialists, counselors, therapists, leaders, and others who are supporting people in their personal and professional development.
The Empowerment Dynamic coaching course is a profound, yet clear and simple method to free yourself from your reactive habits. When you embrace The Empowerment Dynamic roles of Creator, Challenger, and Coach, something amazing happens. Reactive drama is transformed into results and dreams that really matter.
At the end of this powerful course, you will leave with an expanded experience of how to trust your inner guidance as your true source of wisdom and creativity and be ready to partner with others as they strengthen their impact as a leader and coach.
I am thoroughly enjoying your coaching class. I am truly understanding TED* at a deeper level, especially by incorporating the heart intelligence. I also find the POD work very valuable. Thank you!!! To AnnMarie and Ann too! You all are an amazing team.”
– Ele Dootson, ACC; Certified Professional Coach
Meet the Faculty
I help people fall in love with their Creator essence, to accept all parts of themselves they may have left behind, and to boldly live as never before.
Like the apple tree that bears fruit or the songbird that sings, I express and write what I am learning, because I must. I do this to be in service to a changed and evolved world. It you too are changed, that’s lovely!
My sharing comes in many forms. Writing a weekly blog, books, guest speaker, creating coaching curriculum and teaching and facilitating courses. I do this with a wholehearted desire to show up and be fully present. I believe in the intrinsic oneness with all of life and each other. I teach and coach with a kind heart while courageously igniting a fire inside your heart and mind to leap into your highest and most evolved self. I will challenge you to deepen your relationship with yourself so you can confidently be in service to creating a world that works for all.
I have been a Master Certified Coach since 2013 and Director of Coaching for the Center for The Empowerment Dynamic. My new book, Who Do You Want To Be on the Way to What You Want: Coaching with The Empowerment Dynamic was published in March 2022… [Read More About Donna]
Anne-Marie Clear is a Teacher, Coach, Workshop Leader and Speaker. She holds an M.A. in Counseling, is a PCC Trained Coach, a Licensed HeartMath Trainer and Coach, a Licensed 3VQ Trainer and a Certified True Purpose Coach.
Anne Marie shows you how to use the power of your heart to transform your life and live authentically. When you live courageously from the heart and stand in your value, your life becomes integrated and whole.
Anne Marie Clear is the founder and president of Clear Directions. For over 25 years she has helped world class scientists, business professionals and people live their best life by learning to live “heart first.”
Ann is a leadership and team coach whose work focuses on individuals, teams, organizations, and communities experiencing significant change and growth. Ann has been engaged with TED* and 3VQ since the early days, often applying these concepts to the drama that occurs in her own life and work. Ann frequently incorporates neuroscience into her work, and is author of two books: VUCA Tools for a VUCA World: Developing Leaders and Teams for Sustainable Results and Being Coached: Group and Team Coaching from the Inside.
After my clients go through coach training for leaders at their company, they feel quite lost in how to lead and hold their direct reports accountable. Coaching with The Empowerment Dynamic really provides a simple (yet complex) framework that is SO helpful in supporting my clients. Knowing they can step into the Coach and Challenger role has greatly impacted each of them and their ability to lead! Thank you!”
Sharon Ilstrup, SLI Coaching, Leadership & Career Coach
Benefits of This Course and Experience
Once you learn to liberate yourself from your personal reactive habits, you are no longer drowning in your own drama, and a whole other life becomes possible for you. Your energy is freed up—you feel lighter and happier simply because the sky is blue. You learn to coach from your wholeness and truth of your being for maybe the first time in your life. You understand your essence as a Creator without all the chaos inside of you. There’s no reason to compare yourself to others or strive for outer validation. You need nothing from the outside when you know the truth of who you are. This is the transformation the course delivers.
You will benefit from learning how your hardships and reactive habits can be the seed for more personal awareness and experiencing more compassion toward all when in difficult times. You will become an empowered warrior that supports people to rise and be their best self and in doing so, will help change the world for good.
This course is a map for personal transformation. Yes, you will learn coaching tips and techniques, but this course is far more than just tools for coaching. This work will restore your identity as the creative, wise, and intelligent soul that you are, filled with up-lifting energy, and ready to invite others on their transformation journey that you will experience in this course.
Who is this course for?
This course is ideal for you if:
- You are comfortable with emotions, even strong emotions;
- You have a deep desire to serve the common good;
- You are an experienced professional coach, or a therapist, counselor, minister, or human development specialist with some coach education;
- Your thinking goes beyond the worrisome “What should I do with my life?” to excitement about what you are yearning for and creating;
- You are recovering from a fixing and pleasing mindset;
- You trust that clarity resides in the gap of “not knowing” and you want to be adept at relaxing into the tension of deep personal growth, and;
- You have an inkling of your deeper longings, and you want to hang out with others who are attracted to conversations about life’s meaning and purpose.
You may still have questions, of course, about “Where do I fit?” and “How do I best bring my gifts to the world?” You may also want to learn more about The Empowerment Dynamic coaching principles, skills, and tips on how to support and coach others as they clarify their gifts and desired outcomes.
This course is not for you if:
- You are looking for someone to tell you what is the best coaching technique or skill that you should learn;
- You have done little personal growth work or have never been coached or in therapy;
- You look for external reasons for your struggles;
- You want to learn how to set up your business and attract more clients, and/or;
- You are simply looking for continuing education credits.
Please do not let this be just another class. If you do the personal work and unblock yourself from old habits, you will experience the epiphany that you are The Empowerment Dynamic now, not sometime in the future. Your life will change and how you coach will change, but it takes work, reflection, practice, and willingness to begin.”
Donna Zajonc MCC
Deepen Your CREATIVITY and Strengthen Your INFLUENCE as a leader and coach.
How do I, and my clients, learn from our reactive habits instead of pushing them away? Why do the same habits keep reappearing in the first place? How can my drama patterns show me the way to being the person I want to be?
This new book is a fundamental element to Donna’s coaching course.
Thank you for your new book. You have helped me make sense of so many of my burning questions. A few things stand out:
- Appreciate the role of focus much clearer – confirmation bias, role of 3 stories, listening model
- Drama roles in response to uncomfortable emotions – had not seen that as clearly before
- Gaining clues to ‘what I want’ from all parts, emotions, roles and triggers
- The role of attachments to what I want and how that generates a problem reactive stance.
- Clearer links with TLC reactive tendencies”
Mark Mercer
This course has given me language and structure as a coach and leader to engage with others and hold my fire more, allowing others to find their way forward. It’s working! I’m a great rescuer and this has actually been freeing to me. So more present with the other person. I see how much more empowered they feel too. Thank you.”
Rosemary Clark, Director of Sacramento Area Sewer District Operations

If you want a holistic approach to coaching, this is The Course for you. Not only will your clients have an opportunity to address their shadows and move into a richer appreciation of self but you as a coach will make leaps and bounds in the mastery of transformation.
Shauna Kalicki, SHRM-SPC