About
Dan Oliver - Life and Business Transition Coach Dan Oliver
I admire people who are willing to risk the unknown in the hopes of something better. People who embrace the transitions of life.
Transition has been a cornerstone of my life.
Like many of us, I’ve always had (and nourished) an underlying desire for more…
…To know myself more deeply. To accept myself more completely. To flourish more fully.
As anyone who lives on a growth path knows - growth necessitates transition.
When I found my way from a career as an arborist to a career as a business coach (talk about a big transition!), I’d finally found a path that allows me to bring my gifts of empathy, intuition, and levity into the world in a more impactful way - helping my clients transform their lives and businesses.
And as my journey as a business coach has unfolded, I’ve continually found my interest purely in business strategy waining (though I love those things too…). I’ve found myself more and more interested in the heroic journeys of transformation that my clients were walking.
The changes - personal, professional, spiritual - that their businesses and lives were calling them into. Those journeys have been my favorite to support.
And to my surprise, these transitions often create the most impactful changes in the circumstances around us - our businesses do better, our relationships improve, and our careers flourish, when they’re aligned to who we are are at our core.
Go figure… maybe there’s something to being more of who we’re meant to be in the world.
Bend, Oregon is home, but I’m mostly an online coach - traveling frequently and serving clients world-wide.
What are you waiting for? What’s it costing you to stay stuck?
Let’s meet!
My Certifications:
▷ Certified Deep Transformational Coach
▷ Master-Practitioner of NLP, Hypnotherapy and Mental and Emotional Release®
▷Certified Emotional Clearing Practitioner
▷ Certified Coach of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Working with Dan
One of my core values is levity. Playfulness and humor - used with care - can soften the edges in difficult moments. I believe a little laughter can clear the way for a lot of depth. In our sessions you may laugh or cry or do a little of each.
It’s all welcome. Come exactly as you are.
I hold a safe, compassionate, empathetic and playful space for you to search inside yourself for answers you didn’t know you had to questions you might not have thought to ask.
I honor the space that’s created when I come together with my clients. It’s a powerful space for transformation.
My
Qualifications
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From the Center for Transformational Coaching
Huge change often requires or creates a shift at the being level. When we make changes that big there are growing pains (and gains). This powerful methodology (which I call on when needed) slows things down to create a space to help you access your deepest truths and longings and to experience powerful shifts - letting go (or letting come) of all that you are not. It’s about stripping away the layers of ego to become who you’ve always been at your core.
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As a Certified Master Practitioner through Association for Integrative Psychology (AIP) I have a powerful toolset for working with the unconscious mind to help you achieve the results you’re after.
If you’ve ever felt like your actions don’t align with your goals, or you’re getting in your own way - this can be hugely helpful.
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As a Certified Master Practitioner of Mental and Emotional Release® (MER) through Association for Integrative Psychology (AIP) I can help you affect deep change to remove baggage around negative emotions and limiting beliefs.
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From The Spiral School of Awakening, this training and certification borrows from several modalities and traditions to create a toolset that helps me to guide clients in releasing stuck emotion from the body, creating more clarity, peace and insight.
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This training with The Spiral School of Awakening deepened my insights into coaching clients toward transformation using the highly effective tools of NLP - the language of the subconscious mind.
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Formerly an EMyth-Certified Business Coach.
After working as an internal EMyth coach for the better part of two years, in 2022 I moved to the external coaching network. This allowed me to serve my clients more flexibly - delivering EMyth to those who are a great fit, pure business coaching for those who aren’t ready for the full program, and leaning on other coaching methodologies and techniques when needed.
I’m no longer an EMyth Affiliated coach, but still coach from a holistic business coaching approach.
Wherever you are in business, I can help. Let’s talk.
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Using Human-Centered Service Design techniques to research, ideate, design and prototype service innovations that thrill customers.
I can help you and your customers find better ways of doing business. -
I can coach you to redesign and quantify your customer experience efforts - ensuring that you create raving fans, repeat business and referrals.
FAQs
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It depends on what you need.
Coaching is an investment in yourself and your goals.
Let’s jump on a free intro call to discuss your goals and needs. Once I have a better sense of what you’re trying to achieve (and whether I'm sure I can help), I’ll be able to discuss the investment of money and time that will help you achieve the results you’re after.
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I can help! This is a great place to start.
Big life transitions have an inherent period of “lostness.” And as uncomfortable as it might be, that period is an essential part of the process of transformation. I specialize in helping people across the bridge from what/who/where you’ve been, to finding and chasing where you want to go.
It could be that you’re so stuck in your baggage and limiting beliefs you can’t dream big. Or maybe you’re just stuck in that uncomfortable in-between - you know there’s something bigger but don’t know what it is or how to go after it.
Let’s jump on a free Discovery Call where I can learn a little more about you and help you get a glimpse of what’s possible for you and how I might be able to help.
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Yes! I live in Bend, Oregon but I primarily work over Zoom with clients all over the world. We’ll just need to find a good mutual meeting time across our timezones.
I’ve worked with clients in 8 countries and 5 continents!
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I work with small business owners - current and aspiring - across just about any industry you can think of. My typical clients’ businesses are between $200k and $12MM per year in revenue.
I’ve worked with consultancies, service businesses, product businesses (online and brick and mortar) and software companies.
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While I work with many business owners, my passion is in working with people in transition - whether you’re desiring a career change, navigating a divorce, dreaming of starting (or growing or shutting down) a business of your own - I can help you navigate the transition from stuck/confused/lost to clear, grounded and thriving.
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Let’s jump on a free Discovery Call so we can meet and check for mutual fit. I’d also like to learn about your goals and what’s getting in the way.
Assuming we’re a fit, I’ll let you know what you can expect in terms of time and money investment. (No pressure - not my style)
If all sounds good, I’ll send over an agreement and we’ll put something on the calendar!
I can help you…
Navigate life’s big transitions
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
Sometimes life turns upside down.
You might be…
Starting or ending a career,
Starting or ending a relationship,
Starting, growing or ending a business…
Or going through any number of other big life changes
Sometimes we choose the change. Other times it chooses us.
Chosen or not, life changes can be disorienting and difficult.
But they’re also an opportunity…
If we’re brave, we can turn those changes into transformation. We can use them to grow closer to ourselves - our truths, our desires, our longings. We can use them to grow into a fuller version of who we are at our core. And we can use them to release the layers of ego that seperate us from our Selves.
We can use them to transform.
I can guide you through the letting go, the confusion, and the new beginning on the other side of your transition.
Breakthrough Sessions are a game-changer.
If you feel like something is holding you back from success, this is the breakthrough you’re looking for.
I know because I’ve experienced it myself. And I’ve seen the massive shifts in others.
Pick an area of life where you’re feeling stuck, we’ll identify your baggage in that area - the limiting beliefs, negative emotional baggage, incongruencies in your values - and we’ll use powerful processes to clean it all up (NLP, Hypnosis, MER®).
This can be a life-changing program. Are you ready to soar?
Get ready to transform the way you think about and do business.
I can help you develop a business that serves your life. Too often our businesses take over and we lose the purpose and passion we started them with. They begin as our big leap and can become our prisons.
As a Business Coach, I’ve spent many hundreds of hours helping business owners (just like you) create businesses that worked. I’ve worked with businesses of almost every type with annual revenue ranging from $100k to $12Mil.