David Fisher – ACC, MBA, MFA
I help you unpuzzle what’s next — so you can grow, lead, and create a career that feels aligned, energizing, and fully yours.
About Me
My Puzzled Path
My Approach
About Me
I help professionals and leaders get unstuck, see new possibilities, and move into work that feels aligned, energizing, and deeply fulfilling. My approach blends introspection, strategy, and compassionate accountability — so you can connect the dots, build momentum, and step confidently into what’s next.
My Puzzled Path
For more than 25 years, my career took me through a series of extraordinary roles across corporate, government, nonprofit, and creative industries. I served as an executive for a $22M city arts department, awarding hundreds of millions in funding to artists and organizations. I programmed a world-renowned symphony hall, managed a century-old radio station, and even wrote for an online division of The New York Times.
From the outside, it looked like a deeply fulfilling life — and parts of it were. But along the way, I reached a point where the work that once energized me no longer felt aligned with who I was becoming. I felt accomplished, but also stuck. Successful, but not fully connected to my own next chapter.
That experience – of having a strong résumé but a restless inner compass – set me on my own path of growth and reinvention.
I began studying coaching, leadership, psychology, and identity. I worked with mentors, teachers, and communities who helped me see new possibilities for myself. I started to understand my strengths differently, to reconnect with my values, and to imagine a life and career that felt more like me.
Everything changed from there.
Today, that lived experience forms the heart of my work as a coach. I help professionals and leaders who find themselves in that same in-between place — accomplished on paper, but wanting something more aligned, meaningful, and energizing.
I’ve since coached entrepreneurs, creatives, government leaders, consultants, and executives around the world – including professionals from Google, TikTok, Jaguar/Land Rover, SAP, McKinsey, and Amazon – all navigating their own transitions, questions, and reinventions.
The throughline in all of it is simple: helping people get unstuck, see new possibilities, connect the dots, and step confidently into the work that fits who they truly are.
My Approach
I don’t believe in quick fixes, hustle culture, or treating people like machines that need optimizing. I believe in clarity. I believe in compassion paired with accountability. And I believe that real, lasting change happens when your work is aligned with who you are — and who you’re becoming.
My approach is simple, grounded, and deeply human: ask better questions, create a safe space for honest reflection, and help you uncover the possibilities you can’t yet see on your own. You bring the desire for change — I help you find the clarity, tools, and support to make it real.
In short: You deserve a career that feels aligned, energizing, and meaningful.
Let’s talk — and start mapping the path toward work that genuinely fits who you are.