Our Story
David B. Drake, PhD is the Director of the Center for Narrative Coaching in California. Prior to finding the center in 2006, he spent fifteen years consulting on change projects, management and leadership development programs, and coaching initiatives in over seventy organizations. He teaches advanced coaching skills in organizations and narrative coaching skills to professionals, consults and writes on coaching and narrative strategies, and he is active in the international coaching community as a researcher, writer and presenter. David has consulted to five organizations in helping them move to integrated coaching-based cultures. He has developed extensive training resources on coaching skills in the workplace and taught his coaching skills program to over 2,000 leaders, managers and professionals to help them shift the ways that business gets done.
David’s doctorate is in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University in California. His primary research interest is the role of stories in understanding and shaping identity, development and change. He has also studied and taught Jungian psychology, grief work, spiritual formation, and rites of passage as a foundation for his work. David has developed and taught masters-level and professional courses on narrative/coaching skills and management/leadership for six universities in the U.S. and Australia. He has written over twenty articles, papers and chapters on narratives, evidence, and coaching. He is the chief editor for a forthcoming anthology on the philosophy and practice of coaching (www.practiceofcoaching.com) and helped launch an online dialogical space for coaches and the future of coaching (www.coachingcommons.org).
David B. Drake, PhD. | Founder and Director
