On a mission to bring LIFE to work.
Developing extraordinary
leaders, teams,
& culture
Cultivate a timeless competitive advantage through remarkable people strategies
Smart leaders & organizations
know their success is driven by people.
Organizations thrive when the people thrive.
Remarkable organizations embrace this reality and use it to their advantage by cultivating cultures, teams, and leaders which in turn create outstanding products and services.
As a result EVERYONE WINS: Stakeholders marvel at the bottom line, leaders get to focus on what distinguishes the organization in the present while creating an even better future, teams (employees working together) show up fully to do their best work, customers are provided the best-possible product and service, and communities celebrate the indirect impact of the organization.
A dream? Maybe. Possible?
Oh yeah!
Our Services
Leadership Coaching
One-on-one sessions focusing on the continual growth of those leading others
Team Development
Cultivating groups into high-performance teams that maximize results
Organizational Culture
Clarifying and operationalizing what is truly most important
Companies served
What clients are saying…
He’s deeply invested in my growth, asking thoughtful questions that prompt deeper reflection and clarity. His coaching style is methodical yet adaptable, always meeting me where I am while guiding me forward.
Duane has been an outstanding leadership coach for me.
He’s deeply invested in my growth, asking thoughtful questions that prompt deeper reflection and clarity. His coaching style is methodical yet adaptable, always meeting me where I am while guiding me forward.
Ben Myers
Global Monitoring & Diagnostics Leader
GE Vernova – Atlanta, GA
Duane worked closely with Alliance Precision Plastics to improve employee engagement and retention. He accomplished this by getting to know the leadership team and every level within the organization. He built a trusted rapport with all. Rather than lay out a roadmap for management, Duane inspired leadership to identify better means for engaging on various levels so that the team took ownership of the roadmap. In that process, Duane guided the leadership to look beyond the self-imposed boxes. He inspired the team to a vision of continuous growth, personal and corporate.
Rocky Butler – CEO
Alliance Precision Plastics
Rochester, NY
Duane has a very soft-spoken approach which masks a keen intensity of purpose: serving and benefiting leaders and their teams. Our relationship opened with him coaching me directly. Over the months, his reach has expanded to include working with my staff as we implement EOS, a process-driven framework that he brought to my attention for running a business more effectively. My company is now focused with a new clarity of purpose and path.
Duane never puts himself in the discussion, but shines all the energy and attention on the person or situation or process that needs the bright light shone on it. Like any great and important change, ours started slowly and with a lot of reluctance, but with his patient and gentle guiding hand, we are experiencing real breakthroughs. It’s very exciting to feel confidence that we are making significant necessary and beneficial change. Much work is ahead, but with Duane’s support, the progress is consistent, steady, and certain.
Julie Anne DeSa Lorenz – CEO
OLIS On Line Instrument Systems
Athens, GA
Winning teams don’t create themselves.
Results, innovation, and resilience are not guaranteed by simply filling every seat at the table, being in an office space together, or wearing the same uniform. Successful organizations nurture leadership, culture, and health as if their success depended on it (because it does).
Services explained
Leadership Coaching
Covalente offers personalized coaching for leaders committed to excelling in the most meaningful ways. Coaching is for high-performing leaders wanting to continually grow into the best version of themselves.
We start by understanding a coachee, their goals, and the next steps to move beyond successful to thriving.
Be ready to intentionally create a better future. Live & lead with new awareness and effectiveness. Outcomes are co-owned by coachee and coach and (when applicable) accountable to client leadership.
Team Development
It is an art to consistently rally individuals around a common purpose, align efforts to create true synergy and achieve extraordinary results.
Covalente facilitates resources and training to help individuals come together and excel as teams. More than leverage assessments and information, our goal is to nurture the culture and foster the health which ultimately determines a team’s potential.
Organizational Culture
Culture is. Whether or not an organization decides to pay attention, there is an understanding of “how we do things around here” which guides and influences the behavior of every person.
The best organizations are intentional and pre-decide what type of culture they want to create. Others respond to the felt need and have to correct course to not lose what is truly important.
Covalente can help an organization in any stage of bringing a desired culture to life. We can help identify the values that drive founders, facilitate word-smithing the mission, vision and values, and operationalize it all into the human resources and people systems.
