STEP BACK.
GATHER YOURSELF.
GATHER YOUR TEAM.
GET TO WORK.
Align values with purposeful planning.
OUR APPROACH
Name Your Values
Our values are so deeply rooted, they often lead our lives in the background. Leaders interrogate what values guide their leadership and why.
Purposefully Plan
Leaders confidently move to action once they have explored who they are and what they are uniquely positioned to contribute to the world, the company, or the team.
Uncover Your Gifts
We are at our most powerful when we lean into our gifts and lead from our values. For many leaders, their gifts have taken a back seat.
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Spread The Word
Once you are grounded in what matters most, you gather your team, and infuse those gifts and values in every corner of the work.
SERVICES
COACHING
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1-on-1 Coaching
Whether exploring a career change or building technical manager skills, coaching starts with deep of how you uniquely contribute to the world.
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Coaching sessions are 60 minutes and are held at least once each month.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
Team-Level Planning
Organizations, departments, and teams that want to strategically infuse their company's values in their quarterly, yearly, or long-term plan, this service is for you. These multi-session engagements consider team culture, goals, structure, and milestones.
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CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Initiative Roll-out
Investing time and attention in how new initiatives, roles, and structures are socialized across the company is key to providing stability for your workforce.
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A consultant can partner with you to create a plan that leverages how your company does things with how people adapt to change.
ABOUT
When things happen in our lives—good or bad—we gather. When we are celebrating something special, we gather with loved ones. When we are experiencing something difficult, we gather with those who may understand our pain. And sometimes, we just need to gather ourselves and move forward. Gathered Coaching & Consulting, LLC was founded in 2022 to support people and teams to name their values, uncover their gifts, and design and implement plans that are grounded in purpose.
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Darlisha Barnes centers her practice on compassion. With nearly a decade of experience leading high-impact projects, designing strategic planning processes, and coaching team members, her vision is to support companies as they create cultures where people can do their best work.
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Darlisha originally planned to work in public relations for a nonprofit that rescued animals—but the 2008 recession shifted that plan. She found herself in a classroom instead and unexpectedly fell in love with teaching students, though, if she’s being honest, she struggled with adults. (How ironic that all her work now centers adults and how to create empowering, intentional experiences for them?)
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She fell into “people work” when she was coaching first- and second-year teachers and a trusted leader invited her to serve the organization in a new way. Her first response? You know I don’t know how to do any of this stuff, right? But they saw something in her—her gentle, grounded approach—and believed she could lead talent, strategy, and operations work. Because she loved the team, the mission, her city, and the students they served, she said yes. That yes led her to work that now brings her deep joy: people, process, and policy.
Darlisha has led in both non-profit and for-profit spaces and continues to find new ways to put people first in policy and practice. She holds a B.S. in Speech Communications from Tennessee State University and an M.S. in Journalism and Mass Communications from Murray State University. She is a Certified Professional Coach through CoachDiversity and holds certifications in Change Management and Diversity in HR from Cornell University. A former English teacher, Darlisha is a gifted listener and question asker—and happens to be hilarious.
DARLISHA BARNES
FOUNDER &
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
TESTIMONIALS
Christa, Software Developer
"Not only is she incredibly insightful, skilled, and introspective she is kind, genuine, honest, and empathetic. Darlisha helped me prep for my upcoming layoff, providing me with great suggestions on my resume. She gave me awesome suggestions that made me feel more confident in my resume. Despite all of that, the highlight of my meeting with her was when she allowed me to vent out my feelings in such a comfortable setting. Darlisha has the ability to make anyone feel "at home" ..."
Ashley, Fulbright Scholar
"Darlisha’s comments were always insightful and she knew the right questions to ask to get me to dig deeper into self-reflection and awareness. She is really talented at helping people uncover their gifts, to name their strengths and gifts, and then thinking through how to put this into practice, and align their life with this. I think another strength of Darlisha’s is helping others feel seen and heard."
CONTACT
US
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