David Schaefer, Ph.D.
Founder of Inspiration Dynamics LLC
and Coaching Confidential
Coach David Schaefer specializes in working with professionals to advance their personal and career success. His goal is to help clients take control, identify problem areas, find powerful solutions, and achieve immediate and long-term successful results.
With an in-depth knowledge of human behavior, David guides his clients to understand just how critical desire, focus, and persistence are to achieving their goals and accelerating success. He believes people can create purposeful, balanced, and fulfilled lives when they accept full responsibility for their decisions and actions, and commit to personal excellence.
The foundation of David’s coaching is to inspire, facilitate, and empower his clients to achieve their ambitions, optimal performance, and greatest potential. Known for his thought-provoking, optimistic coaching style and deep respect of the human spirit, he is passionate that each client experience the success they envision.
A graduate of The University of Virginia, David holds degrees in business, counseling, and additional postgraduate studies. Of particular interest to him is Positive Psychology and the dynamics of the subconscious mind as they relate to cultivating an individual’s signature strengths for achievement and personal fulfillment.
His career of 30-plus years has been remarkably unique, with a rich blend of extensive training in human potential development and practical on-the-line business experience. David’s skills have been in demand by individuals from many different professions and widely varying educational backgrounds. He understands the challenges and rewards of the professional’s life.
As an entrepreneur, David has successfully operated enterprises in professional coaching, consulting, and product distribution. His credentials also include corporate training and management development, media production, sales training, college instruction, and personal and career counseling. His corporate experience has taught him the value of leadership, effective communication, and teamwork that capitalizes on individual talent. David applies his skills to help entrepreneurs, career professionals, and individuals making life transitions.
David considers it his privilege to coach individuals who have a take-charge, do-it-now attitude in both their personal life and in work. His clients become crystal clear about their values, purpose, vision, and goals and how to effectively achieve them. Among the many important methods and techniques for self-improvement, they learn to respect and excel in initiative, decisiveness, collaboration, and accountability.
With David's expertise and inspiring approach, his clients are energized and enriched by the positive results they experience through coaching. His 9 Steps to RESULTS!™ provides powerful, proactive coaching for achieving personal fulfillment and professional success.
Professional Affiliations
As a professional coach, David Schaefer maintains affiliations with the Association of Humanistic Psychology, the National Mental Health Association, the International Association of Coaches, CoachVille, the Association of Coaching & Consulting Professionals on the Web, and the International Society for Mental Health Online.
