Who are Daisy Swan (The Los Angeles Career Coach and Career Strategist) and the Amazing Associates?

Daisy Swan, MA, CPCC, career strategist, coach and counselor, has worked with hundreds of clients over the past 17 years. Known for her compassionate and straightforward approach, Daisy guides her clients to clarify their career direction and supports them as they find and take the necessary steps to realize their professional and personal goals. Daisy has been a career professional in private practice for 13 years, serving a broad population of senior executives, attorneys, sales and IT professionals, writers, producers, actors and new grads. She also has 12 years of career counseling and presentation experience at several major universities helping students prepare for career transitions and supporting them in their job search. She has extensive interviewing and recruiting experience and is knowledgeable about a wide variety of business sectors nationwide. An expert in the uses of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator for career and communications purposes, Daisy has used the assessment in individual and group training.

Originally from New York City, Daisy started her college career at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA but later received her BA from Loyola University of Chicago in English Literature and Education. She then earned her Masters in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago with the aim of doing work that combined business with education – with aspirations of creating mentoring programs for kids needing assistance getting their lives launched. Since ‘luck is preparation meeting opportunity’, she got the lucky break to become the Assistant Director of Career and Placement Service at the University of Chicago. The West Coast beckoned and Daisy moved on to become the Director of the Career Resource Center at Pepperdine University’s School of Business, then Manager of MBA Recruitment for FHP Healthcare in Costa Mesa and later, Associate Director of the Career Resource Center at USC’s Marshall School of Business. She started her private practice in 1995 as an associate of Dr. Katherine Kendall, a college counselor in Beverly Hills. Daisy opened the doors of her West LA office in 2003.

Daisy has appeared on network TV on NBC’s daytime coaching program, Starting Over as well as ABC’s online ABCNewsNow.com. She has also appeared on Style Network’s Modern Girl’s Guide to Living, and as a guest on the Frank Girls talk radio program. She co-authored and presented an article on “The Impact of Divorce on Career Development” at the 2002 International Career Development Conference and speaks to groups on a variety of business, parenting, career and professional development topics.

As a committed professional concerned with teaching others to trust themselves and explore their interests, Daisy has been a consultant to a prestigious San Jose college preparatory high school organizing and implementing a career exploration mentoring program pairing students with area professionals.

She has also served on the Board of the Los Angeles Girl Scout Counsel, LA Team Mentoring, and the Professionals In Human Resources Association. She is currently a member of the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association and the International Coach Federation, Step Up Women’s Network, and the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach through the Coaches Training Institute and is currently adding to her range as a coach becoming a certified somatic coach through the Strozzi institute in Petaluma, CA to further enhance her offerings to clients.

Daisy balances (and juggles) her work with the fun and challenge of life with her 12-year-old son, her husband, and their two dogs, Petey and Lola.

What you get when you hire me or another Daisy Swan & Associates coach…

a partner who helps you to develop your skills at seeing, creating, and taking opportunities to get from point A to at least R in the most effective, rejuvenating and intelligent way possible.

We give you 1000% attention to hear and see you – and all that you have to offer – so that you can see, and feel, the next steps to create a whole new way of working in the world.

Using intuition, knowledge of the workplace and all of its complexities and emerging opportunities, as well as coaching skills developed over years of work with clients, we give you our best.

This is a process. We haven’t found the magic bullet that transforms career issues overnight. Just as it takes effort and persistence (think of what it took for Tiger Woods, Meryl Streep or Warren Buffet to get where they’ve gotten – and they didn’t do it alone either) we’ll be there to point out the places to look to uncover options you may never have expected.

If you’re interested in talking with me or another coach/career strategist please contact anna@daisyswan.com to arrange for a phone conversation to see if what we do is what you’re looking for.

Contact Information:
11620 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 900-034
Los Angeles, CA 90025
310-820-8877

anna@daisyswan.com