About Dovetail
Our Philosophy
The Dovetail Leadership Group (“DLG”) has a unique methodology for training and developing individual contributors, managers, leaders, and teams that results in significant, measurable, and sustainable improvements within their organizations. We are passionate about working with successful leaders, executives, business entrepreneurs, and their teams who sense that there’s more… and who want to expand themselves and explore the possibilities. We believe that those who have a passion for personal and professional growth will grow as people, and experience transformation in and through their leadership.
The Dovetail Metaphor
Much like the precision of dovetail joints in woodworking, individuals can achieve personal and professional success by skillfully merging their experiences, training and talents. Just as dovetail joints fit together seamlessly, aligning personal passions with professional pursuits, fostering effective communication and harmonizing work-life balance can create a sturdy foundation for lasting achievement. By adopting the principles of dovetailing in their lives, individuals can unlock their full potential, leveraging their unique qualities to construct a path toward personal and professional excellence.
Our Vision
Transformation through Reflective Inquiry:
Challenging Assumptions and Beliefs | Being at Choice | Personal Power
Through effective use of curiosity and reflective inquiry, DLG seeks to expand your awareness by focusing on:
Challenging Assumptions and Beliefs
What you assume and believe about a given situation can determine how you respond to it. Challenging your assumptions and beliefs will expand your perspective so that you look at things in new ways, start asking yourself questions that will deepen your understanding and open a wider range of choices that lead to new possibilities.
Being at Choice
You are creative, resourceful and whole. Being “at choice” is at the heart of personal engagement and empowerment. Within you is everything you need to remain purposeful, resourceful and stable; no matter what is going on around you.
Personal Power
Developing and walking in your personal power enables you to move into uncertainty and the unknown with courage and confidence. Knowing who you are, what motivates you and how you influence those around you moves you closer to your authentic self, bringing greater harmony and peace.
Our Mission
Bringing Everything Together Seamlessly
As an individual…
DLG brings a unique blend of client care with encouragement and outward perspective, coupled with challenge, through coaching to help clients take care of their mind, body and spirit.
As a team…
DLG embraces diversity and inclusion (D&I) and leverages it for the growth of the individual and the team. A fully integrated team is able to leverage the interdependencies that lead to an increase in performance and productivity in significant, measurable and sustainable ways.
As an organization, community, country…
Recognizing that external stakeholders, customers, and the larger community are as much a part of your team’s success, DLG is passionate to work with you to identify and cultivate the synergies that exist; dovetailing seamlessly in building relationships and achieving results.
Meet the CEO
Judith Díaz Myers
Judith Díaz Myers is CEO and founder of the Dovetail Leadership Group LLC. As a former C-Suite Executive (Senior Executive, SES) with 31 years of experience in the US Federal Government, with the last 16 years as a SES leading people and complex technical change initiatives related to the design and development of the new design (colored) US currency banknotes that facilitate commerce worldwide. In this capacity, she led the Interagency Currency Design (ICD) Group and worked closely with the US Central Bank (Federal Reserve Board), the US Department of Treasury and the US Secret Service. Her leadership resulted in the design, development and release of the new design (colored) $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 US Federal Reserve Notes that included new security features, detection methodologies and engineering adaptations for successful manufacturing and high-speed authentication. After completing the roll-out of a suite of newly designed banknotes, Judith expanded her career portfolio and professional identity by serving as an Executive Chief Diversity Officer and Equal Opportunity Officer for a geographically dispersed government organization.
Judith is a highly experienced International Coaching Federation (ICF) Master Certified Coach (MCC), one of only 2,140 worldwide according to the ICF Credential Fact Sheet as of August 2023.
She boasts extensive experience in coaching and mentoring, with a multifaceted background that includes roles as a Governance Board member, faculty member, Coaching Instructor, and Mentor Coach for OPM and Treasury Executive Institute (TEI) Coaching Programs. She has also excelled as a Team Coach with an expectation of attaining ICF Team Coaching certification, a Group Coach who has successfully conducted numerous group coaching sessions with Senior Leaders, and a Mentor Coach at the University of Texas (Dallas). Additionally, Judith is recognized as a Coach Supervisor, accredited through the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
Through her personal and professional experiences with coaching, she embraces the benefits of expanding her capacity in emotional and positive intelligence, team building, facilitation, leadership, coaching and interpersonal skills, as these are the skills that empower each of us to be change leaders. In her professional capacity, she took on various roles, constantly challenging her ability to navigate the uncertainty of ‘not knowing and deepening her ability to coach those at this crossroads. Her diversified career portfolio gives her a unique professional identity that evolved alongside her technical prowess, and a desire to be a lifelong learner who serves others through coaching and leadership development. She has a passion for working with successful leaders, executives, business entrepreneurs and their teams who sense that there’s more… and who want to expand themselves and explore the possibilities.
Judith has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from St. Louis University. She loves gardening and has been a dance, gymnastics and Yogalates teacher for over 30 years. She resides in South/Central Virginia, USA, and is married with an adult son.