Founder
Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
Nobel Peace Prize (2006)
Anne Lynam Goddard
President & CEO
Christian Children's Fund
Sam Daley-Harris
Founder
RESULTS and the Micro-Credit Summit Campaign
Yolonda Richardson
Past President & CEO
Center for Development
and Population Activities
Monica Walsh
Executive Director
Change Congress
Sam Worthington
President & CEO
InterAction
Testimonials for Dave Ellis Training
Muhammad Yunus
Founder
Nobel Peace Prize winner 2006
Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
“So, he (Dave Ellis) is not an advisor. He's not telling you what to do. What I feel is that you have capacity within yourself, but you never test those buttons that you have. So he brings out your own capacity or you discover your own capacity. You become an explorer of yourself.”
Anne Lynam Goddard
President and CEO
Christian Children's Fund
“This workshop revived me. I'd never been in an event like this, where I knew no one else, and I could focus just on me. The training allowed me to let go of a lot of deep-seated grieving I had for human suffering that I had seen through my work. That was an incredible experience that I had never anticipated.”
“I did the training with my wife. The question, “What is the life of your dreams?” was a profound gift to both of us. We really created our life anew out of the training with lots of big changes related to where we live and how our work was structured.”
“The training really gave us permission to vision the life of our dreams. It was a big thrill, because it launched changes that have been so satisfying.”
“The leadership training had an incredible impact on me. I directly took the benefits and applied them to working with my staff, and that was quite successful.”
“I highly recommend the Leadership Workshops that Dave Ellis conducts. They have changed the way that I look at myself as a leader and the way that my co-workers respond to me as a leader. That exponentially makes things move far quicker and far better than anything that I’ve ever experienced. And my friends and co-workers also see a big difference.”
“Dave Ellis is an entirely credible person who lives his values and acts consistent with his philosophy. This helped me set aside my skepticism and test his transformative ideas regarding my health, financial well-being, productivity, marriage, and family relationships. I now have a fun and fulfilled life on all levels.”
“I've been part of two leadership trainings that were real turning points in my life. It's been a blessing for our whole family.”
“I highly recommend the trainings to anyone who's interested in living from their values and more from their heart. I'm deeply grateful for this work and for Dave.”
“Dave Ellis’ teaching has been profoundly useful to me as a leader and as a human being. Through my work with Dave, I was inspired to do the impossible, to set large goals which I had no idea how to achieve, and then to actually find ways to create the desired results.”
Contextus LLC (a consulting company based in Rochester, NY)
“Even though Dave's ideas are brilliant, what I most appreciate about his trainings is the focus on the participants' creativity and their own thinking.”
“Because of my experience with Dave Ellis’ teachings, my husband certainly has noticed that I’m calmer, I’m happier, and that my impact on the world through my work is much greater than it has ever been before.”
“The passion and caring that Dave brings to this work are very evident in the content and its impact on participants. Many of Dave’s teachings have made my life much happier and healthier. They’ve also made me a much better leader.”
“I’m more confident now, I stand up for myself more often, and my success is at the highest level of my career after over 30 years of leading not-for-profits.”
InterAction (the umbrella organization responsible for the US International Nonprofit community)
“When I took this three-day leadership training with Dave Ellis, I was able to examine a number of leadership approaches that I was using in my work, refine them, and apply them in a way that was more directly linked to my own personal vision. That vision is a world where individuals are better off and human well-being is advanced.”
“It’s certainly not psychotherapy, and it’s not really counseling, but we talk about the kind of things you might discuss with a close family member or a friend. And my coach can be pretty dispassionate about it. I don’t feel any constraint in talking to him because I don’t know if I’ll ever see him. It’s sort of a neutral relationship and lends itself very well to the kind of anonymity that permits a very open discussion.”
“I am able to assimilate new ideas and look at people and their ideas from a different point of view. With the help of my coach, I am broadening myself and able to stretch my imagination, my thoughts, and my ideas.”
“Coaching is really about empowerment and win-win. What I really want to get at here is that I have learned about how to be even more impactful in the political area by adopting a policy of not functioning in an adversarial mode. It kind of sticks out in this particular milieu. We are willing to stand for something that’s big enough so that everyone can see their way to participate. I think that many of our congressional victories over the last few years have occurred because we work with conservatives and liberals and middle of the road politicians for something that really serves all people.”