About Davidson
Executive coach and strategic advisor. Leadership, strategy, and where AI fits, for leaders who want the read fast and a next step they can act on.
Portland, Oregon.
Trained in the disciplines,
seasoned across the sectors.
- Athletic and consumer brands
- Retail
- Healthcare
- Insurance
- Energy and utilities
- Transportation
- Public sector
- Technology
- Financial services
- Manufacturing
- Professional services
- Education and nonprofit
- Sports and fitness
- Startups
Impact highlights.
Real situations
A global brand’s executives with an AI mandate, a long list of ideas, and nothing prioritized.
Led the AI strategy conversations with the executive stakeholders, turned generative and agentic AI capabilities into a short list of prioritized use cases, and built an AI-enabled approach so adoption was planned from day one.
A short list with owners and measures instead of a mandate, and an approach the team kept using after the project.
Start with a fit call. Retainers and scoped engagements from there.
Davidson’s own practice. Twenty-three years of frameworks and judgment, and people who need the read but can’t book a call.
Built What Would Davidson Do: designed the frameworks, calibrated the voice against real answers to real scenarios, and productized it.
Anyone can bring a real situation and get a structured read with the framework named, three a month free.
Try WWDD. Free, no account needed.
An IT leadership team, managers across two departments, new to executive rooms.
Six months of one-on-one coaching plus monthly workshops on values, emotional intelligence, and executive presence.
Coach effectiveness rated 5.0 out of 5. Every participant reported value. The sponsors went looking for budget to extend it.
Start with a fit call. Retainers and scoped engagements from there.
A multi-state health system with 18+ teams and 45+ stakeholders up to the C-suite, burned out on the last three tools and processes.
Ran a multi-day facilitation that got the teams to agree on program goals, priorities, and who owns what, using LEAN to map current state to future state.
One set of priorities, named accountability, and requirements the teams wrote themselves and stood behind.
Start with a fit call. Retainers and scoped engagements from there.
A large health system replacing its HR system, with a change approach that wasn’t reaching the people who’d use it.
Rebuilt the change strategy and redesigned the delivery method around working sessions instead of slide decks.
They extended the engagement and asked for the same approach in other parts of the project.
Start with a fit call. Retainers and scoped engagements from there.
A global brand asked its technology teams to work in squads across four regions. Earlier attempts had stalled, and there was still no common framework.
Met with teams across the entire division, every group that would form a squad, and built the framework from how they actually worked. Designed a people-first ways of working the teams could own and drive themselves, then trained every role through it.
600+ teammates across 56 squads on one framework they helped shape, formally adopted by the company’s global technology organization.
Start with a fit call. Retainers and scoped engagements from there.
A consumer brand growing faster than its ways of working, with business and technology teams that had no agreed way to work together.
Architected an enterprise ways-of-working framework and an operating model playbook, and ran alignment workshops with the executive team.
The playbook was adopted by the directors and the CTO, and business and technology started planning together.
Start with a fit call. Retainers and scoped engagements from there.
A national youth nonprofit needed a program that could scale without its founders in the room.
Co-designed the curriculum and a train-the-trainer model, and ran the first year of pilots.
The program went on to reach 80,000+ participants at home and abroad and secure $1M in seed funding.
Start with a fit call. Retainers and scoped engagements from there.
A global brand launching new survey and communication platforms to 82,000 employees.
Ran the rollouts end to end: announcements, road shows, training, user guides, and internal support.
Adoption instead of shelfware. Self-service training and guides people could use on their own, and a support model that ran without me.
Start with a fit call. Retainers and scoped engagements from there.
A national sales and service organization losing hours a week to customer service questions.
Built a customer service training program and automated the reporting behind it.
Team efficiency up 70%, analysis time cut in half.
Start with a fit call. Retainers and scoped engagements from there.
What people say
“She picked up on nuances that people who have known me for years don't necessarily pick up on yet.”
“I would highly recommend Davidson and would hire her back in a heartbeat.”
“In my almost 20 years of professional experience, I have seen few who have facilitated as complex a topic and diverse an audience as well.”
“We got three months of planning and strategizing done in three hours.”
“She proved exceptionally capable of bridging the gap between technologies, such as LLMs, Generative AI, and Agentic AI, and measurable business ROI.”
“Cut through the noise, developed a clear understanding of our current processes, provided clear visual documentation, and helped us find a more efficient means to deliver to our business partners.”
“She knows how to read and manage a room in real time, with grace, humor and empathy.”
“She is friendly but also knows when to call you on your bull.”
“After talking to me for just 30 minutes, Davidson sensed what my start-up nonprofit needed, made an offer on what she could do for us and the rest, as they say, is history.”
“Davidson is a relational, engaging, and dynamic speaker.”
“…thoughtful and thorough, yet with lightning fast turnaround (she is one of the most AI literate people at this firm).”