Lisa Holden
Equine Coach
Lisa Holden is an executive leader in healthcare and has extensive experience in nonprofit leadership, government affairs, state and national public policy, coalition building and managing high-performance teams and their outcomes. Trained as a nurse (Marquette University) with experience heading up domestic violence coalitions, she brings astute observational and analytical skills to her coaching work. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s Integral leadership Program and a founding member in The Refiners’ Playground, a national spiritual development community.
Above all, Lisa is an avid horse woman through and through. She is even more at home in a herd of horses than she is in a corporate boardroom or speaking with legislators in Washington. Her love of horses began as a young girl but came to fruition as an adult, when she came to appreciate the unique gifts that cultivating individual relationships with horses offers. She brings a mind-body approach to helping others attune to and experience the rich connection available to them with horses. Lisa is especially adept at helping her clients see the parallels to their own lives that their time with horses opens up. Lisa is a graduate of the Academy for Coaching With Horses program, an eighteen month long certification program in equine facilitated learning.
Dan Holden
Equine Coach
Dan Holden is an executive leadership coach and organizational consultant with over 30 years of private practice. His corporate work has focused on deep development work with leaders and their teams. He is gifted at transforming adversity into power. He helps his clients see the inevitable gifts they possess — the gifts they must offer — and discover ways to move forward with greater power, grace and ease. Dan is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Business School. He is co-founder of The Refiners’ Playground, a spiritual development cohort and the author of Lost Between Lives — Finding Your Light When the World Goes Dark. You can download numerous articles of his on leadership development from his website, danielholdenassociates.com. Or check out his series of Horse Guy articles on LinkedIn. He is a master practitioner with The Leadership Circle 360 and has led certification workshops for coaches and organizational consultants around the world in this assessment technology.
Dan is a longtime lover of ‘horse power’ (motorcycles, sports cars) and came to the world of horses later in life. He is a graduate of the Academy for Coaching With Horses. A military veteran and ex-paratrooper, Dan brings the excitement and curiosity of a new beginner with horses to a legacy of individual and team transformation work with clients around the world.
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