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| E-NEWSLETTER |
Sign up for The Spark and get fresh ideas for staying cool in hot situations, giving power-packed presentations, winning your next promotion, staying positive, getting to “yes,” and lots more on the skills you need for breakthrough success.
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| Who We Are |
We’re Doug Davin and Diana Morris, and for the last 25 years as consultants to some of the
world’s largest companies, we’ve helped everyone from employees to executives, from job seekers to business owners create the work of their dreams. In 2006, we started Breakthrough Skills to bring you
one-of-a-kind books, workbooks, and coaching calls that will help you build the people skills you need to break away and reach new heights of success.
We’re on a mission: to encourage and equip you to work at your full potential, break through to new
heights of success, and enjoy your work—every day. |
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Diana Morris |
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It was Spring 1988 when I quit my consulting job in Manhattan to start my own business, working on a rented typewriter in my bedroom. I spent two years wandering, making expensive mistakes and learning lessons the hard way before finally getting my footing.
In the years that followed, my little company grew, shrank, and grew again. The projects got more challenging, and the clients got larger. As a writer/editor, my articles were featured in business magazines around the world. As a speaker and workshop leader, I ran meetings and gave talks to hundreds of business people. I coached CEOs and managers, mentored workers, and advised company officers. I’ve worn almost every hat in business: employee, salesperson, manager, business owner, administrator, author, speaker, and event coordinator.
Through all this experience, I’ve been hired and fired, praised and rejected. I’ve waited months for calls from prospects that never came. Spoken to audiences of 300 and audiences of 3. I’ve put myself in impossible situations, sometimes rising to the occasion, sometimes…well, not.
I know what it’s like to itch for what’s next. I also totally get the sheer desire for some certainty and predictability in your work. I’ve felt desperate to conquer a stumbling block, like public speaking or conflict management. And I’m determined to use everything I know to help you reach new heights of success and enjoyment—yes, enjoyment—in your work.
Breakthrough Skills and everything about it: every book, workbook, coaching call, and article is for you. |
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Doug Davin |
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What makes work fun? For me, as both a manager and a partner in a small business, it’s always come down to enjoying the people I work with. I also want to know that I’m doing something that helps my team, my company, and my personal goals, and—best case—all three.
Over 15 years, I built and rebuilt a staff that grew to 14 incredibly talented people who earned many awards for editorial and design work, including a Gold Quill. Of course, I also made my share of mistakes and learned lots of leadership and business lessons the hard way.
But by far the biggest breakthrough of my work life came a few years ago when I heard about Appreciative Inquiry, way of working that zeros in on positive change. At Breakthrough Skills, we always say that your most valuable asset is your ability to change for the better. Appreciative Inquiry is all about changing for the better, and we go about it in a very specific way. Rather than asking “What’s wrong?” we ask “What’s right?” and “How can we get more of that?”
We get you thinking about when you’re at your best, doing your greatest work so we can build on those successes. It’s super-simple…and it works. |
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