Meet the Team

Denise Harris

Denise is an accomplished leader, executive coach and leadership development facilitator who has the innate ability to empower purpose driven people to fulfill their goals. For more than 20 years, she’s brought her contagious passion for growth and development to individuals and organizations including America Online, Comcast, USA TODAY, Mozilla and GlaxoSmithKline.   

Denise is the CEO and founder of Denise Harris Executive Coaching & Corporate Consulting, which was created to help executives and leaders increase awareness, envision possibilities, achieve insights, and accomplish meaningful and challenging goals. 

She incorporates and infuses a passion for authentic leadership into every aspect of her work to help her clients create the space to be centered and intentional in their commitment to growth, day to day choices and interactions with others. Denise is deeply committed to helping others thrive personally and professionally. Denise creates trust-based partnerships with her clients to increase their success as authentic leaders. She gets to the heart of matters and sees her clients’ inherent strengths. She incorporates mindfulness practices in her work with clients to help them create the space to be more centered and intentional in the face of constant demands. 

Her strengths include coaching clients in the areas of leadership development and influence, thinking strategically, building personal and professional resilience, and creating balance in demanding roles. She is especially skilled at helping clients to identify and “get unstuck” from long-term patterns of behavior and thinking that do not support their vision of success. Denise uses a pragmatic approach, providing tools, skills training, and unique exercises focused on her clients’ personal and business outcomes. She combines empathy, challenge, accountability and humor to help her clients create solutions that will work in in both their professional and everyday life. 

Denise is a certified practitioner in Meyers Briggs and is also a certified John Maxwell Leadership Coach. 

Denise is a graduate of Hofstra University, a graduate of Accomplishment Coaching Coaches’ Training Program and is ACC credentialed by the International Coaching Federation.