about teri
Teri Doke offers professional coaching services to current executives, leaders, and managers who are aspiring to greater levels of responsibility. She also helps businesses "voice their brand" with professional voice acting services. Our team at Teri Doke engages in this meaningful work because she believes in shaping leaders and organizations that highly value the people who interface with the technologies and systems. She applies this people-centered approach to help develop balanced leaders who are authentic, creative, and self-actualizing with a demonstrated aptitude to learn while leading. Her aim is to help the leaders she serves to ultimately become the best versions of themselves—in work and life.
OUR CLIENTS
TeriTools is a trusted thought leader and strategic advisory firm that collaborates with high-performing teams, international clients, entrepreneurs, and organizations at every level.
WE PROUDLY SERVE
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Non-profit sectors
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Learning institutions
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Small businesses
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Corporations
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Federal, municipal, and state governments
OUR SUCCESS FACTORS
Our team’s credibility as strategic advisors has been earned over time through a track record of success. In previous engagements and projects, we have consistently delivered on our promises to elevate leaders and organizations to the next level of achievement.
THE TOOLS EMBEDDED IN OUR DELIVERY INCLUDE:
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Change Leadership Expertise - More than 40 years of executing sustained strategic planning; authentic image building; and stakeholder-reinforced social responsibility. These are the critical interactive pillars for organizational success in all public and private sector endeavors.
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Business Acumen - Holistic and integrated approach to work—leveraging a complimentary blend of quantitative tools, such as Lean Six Sigma and project management, together with soft skills such as intercultural communications, organizational development, and social responsibility in business in order to build connections and strengthen the business core
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International Experience - Client engagements across three continents, including sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and North America, have built cultural competence and essential intercultural communications skills
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Relationship Management - Trusted advisor with the political savvy to seamlessly navigate client relationships at all tiers of the business function to quickly establish trust and build collaboration
OUR VALUES
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Trust & Integrity
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Exercise deliberate social responsibility and the highest ethical standards in our approach, practices, and business solutions
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Establish authentic and trustworthy relationships with clients by leading with truth— even when it may become uncomfortable
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Deliver on promises made to consistently create an environment of trust and to build credibility with clients as a trusted accountability partner and trusted adviser.
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Adaptive Leadership
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Expertly guide clients through the challenging process of purposeful evolution to achieve desired end-state goals
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Identify essential practices and disrupt existing obstacles to help clients integrate courageous innovative approaches and leadership strategies.
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Leverage tools that help clients build capabilities through intentional “change experiments” and evaluate outcomes against critical success factors
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Courageous Advocacy
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Champion the interests of the whole person to inspire global influencers who are well-adapted, balanced, and who demonstrate a high emotional intelligence quotient in work and life
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Drive creative problem solving and healthy debate during client engagement
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Design tailored solutions informed by best practices and enlightened perspectives to ensure that our clients’ goals remain at the center of our services
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WHO IS TERI AND WHAT ARE TERITOOLS?
Teri Doke is a global change agent with more than 40 years of leadership experience transforming government and private industry establishments on a local, regional, and international scale. Her path has taken her from the Hampton University School of Communications, to the Howard University Law School, and to the Harvard University Business School in pursuit of the acquisition of impeccable skills required to become a leader of organizations aggressively engaged in the change process. She has served in various capacities such as Executive Director, President, Chief Operating Officer, Administrator, and Secretary of State of the District Columbia. Her numerous posts in government, private industry, and international business have all informed her ability to provide dynamic coaching services to a broad clientele requiring a diverse range of skills and abilities.
Teri is an adaptive leader who brings all that she is to all that she does. The challenges and successes or ebbs and flows from her own career and life journey inspire her unique coaching style. As a Certified Professional Coach, she now shares practical lessons and insights that help other leaders—across generations—to learn, grow, and transcend obstacles in order to reach that next-level milestone. For Teri, coaching is heart work and a meaningful act of service to help others achieve career and lifestyle enhancement. She challenges, stretches, motivates, and lifts her clients to inspire excellence at every level.
Using a collaborative approach, Teri helps executives, senior leaders, and emerging leaders to:
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Provide context and contour to the value of intergenerational transfer in an evolving workplace, including vertical and horizontal mentor-mentee relationships
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Underscore our humanity by emphasizing that we have the capacity to recover despite how we got to our current place or what caused us to get here—there is life beyond the vicissitudes…
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Model course correction and transcendence beyond the other side of challenges and missteps
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Celebrate the realm of possibility that inspires a higher level of consciousness for us to maximize our potential and become the highest expression of ourselves.
why trust teri?
The answer is because I have a track record.
My personal journey of roller-coaster triumphs amid staggering tragedies has taught me the true value of tenacity, resilience, courage, faith, and loving kindness. The joyful celebration of life’s endless possibilities has been my steadfast goal no matter the circumstance; no matter my age or stage of development. In fact, I have often been told by colleagues and friends that my unusual story is worth sharing with others in order to inspire, encourage, and enable. Hence, I humbly offer to partner with you at this life changing stage of your own journey in order to share my TeriTools. I will be your creative thought partner as you identify your unique strengths in order to pivot seamlessly toward your next goal. And, if you have not yet identified what that goal should be, I can help you with that also.
My core value is trust and my strongest competency is leadership. In fact, trustworthy leadership is what I deem most important in this world assaulted by a lack of trust. If you are an emerging leader who desires to become a pioneer in building a global culture of distinguished performance, then an engagement with Teri Doke may well get you to that goal. Or, if you are simply in the throes of a life-changing event, I am here to coach you toward imagining your next confident step—then taking it!
I am an authentic, highly seasoned professional with more than 40 years of documented success as a transformational leader. Therefore, I come to your table bringing a track record of success to enable you to learn while leading. I invite you to schedule an introductory consultation to experience what we can accomplish together.
Carpe Diem! (Seize the day!)
professional credentials
College of Executive Coaching
Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
George Washington University
Certified Public Manager (CPM)
American Hospitality Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute
Customer Guest Services Certification
Dartmouth College
Lean Six Sigma, Yellow Belt Certification