NYFA Coaching and Consulting

Building a Purposeful Career: Discovery Session

Chelsea is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), who coaches arts leaders on how to identify career-defining goals and strategize steps to achieve them.

$80.00 / 40 minute session

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About the Coach

Chelsea Goding-Doty

Senior Program Officer, Leadership Initiatives, NYFA Learning

Chelsea is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, arts administrator and producer who brings over 15 years of arts leadership to her role at NYFA where she manages leadership programs for cultural workers.

During this single session, you and Chelsea will look at a topic of your choosing to identify meaningful goals and steps to reach your vision of success around that topic.

Chelsea can offer strategies and insights on:

Leadership Development
Career Planning for Arts Administrators
Finding Purpose
Navigating Challenges
Goal Setting
Implementing Vision

Chelsea Goding-Doty, CPCC, is an arts administrator, producer, and Certified Professional Co-Active coach who works with women leaders, communities of color, and purpose-driven teams. Goding-Doty is the Senior Program Officer, Leadership Initiatives at New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), where she was previously a consultant and Advisor for the Incubator for Executive Leaders of Color and a participant in the 2014 Emerging Leaders Program.

Most recently, Goding-Doty worked with Kaneza Schaal as Managing Director to produce and tour works of opera and theater. Goding-Doty also served as Managing Director of Gallim, Studio Director of S Factor New York, and Interim Director of Education at New York City Center. She co-founded Harlem Arts Festival (HAF), a multidisciplinary performing and visual arts festival presented annually in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, NY, serving as HAF’s Director of Marketing from 2010-2016.

Goding-Doty is an alum of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and the Arts and Business Council of New York Multicultural Internship, and holds a BS degree in Arts Administration from Butler University. She is also a Nonprofit Lifecycles Institute Consultant and member of the Creative and Independent Producer Alliance (CIPA).

When you book your session

On the next page, you’ll be prompted to share information with your coach. Consider: what would you like to discuss? What are your goals for the session? When you book, you’ll have the opportunity to provide this context and/or share any relevant materials you'd like your coach to look over. They will then review these in advance, and provide feedback during your conversation. Your session will take place virtually over zoom in Eastern Time (ET). Once you book, you will receive a confirmation email with the zoom link.

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