Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

Dian Reid is a professionally trained Co-active® Coach via The Coaches Training Institute, and is a member of the International Coach Federation. She is also a Certified Professional Coach, with her certificate from Coaches Institute International in November 2009.

Dian has been leading people to personal and professional growth during her 18+ years in Customer Service and Management background, and now chooses to serve her community as a life and authenticity coach.

Dian honors her part in the LGBTQ community by offering coaching in areas of Questioning and coming out, lesbian couples coaching, and living authentically. She draws upon her own experience of coming out to her devout Christian father in 2000, as well as the subsequent relationship changes with him and other friends and family, in working with her clients around this topic.

In 2006 Dian lost her father to gall bladder cancer, which led her to leave her corporate job of 8 years to prioritize and align her life with her authentic self. She spent the next 4 years writing a book about the experience of being present for her father's death, and how their relationship impacted her life, both before and after his death. That book is in the midst of being edited in 2010.

Dian grew up in the San Fernando Valley, just north of Hollywood in Southern California. She now lives in Long Beach with her domestic partner, 2 rescued cats and a rescued Labrador mutt.

Work History

• Authentic Realities Coaching
• Owner
• Febuary 2009 to Present

• Co-active authenticity coach. Work with LGBTQ community on individual and group basis around coming out and other LGBTQ issues. Lesbian couples coach. Grief and loss coach. Motivational speaker.

Education

• Coaches Training Institute
• Co-Active Life Coach, Co-Active Coaching
• 2009 - 2009