Diane Tompkins
I work with people at moments when certainty gives way to something more honest.
I'm an executive coach and facilitator based in Marin County, working with senior leaders across the Bay Area and far beyond.
I spent my early career at the intersection of strategy, leadership, and culture, in corporate environments shaped by high performance expectations and pressure. I know what it costs to lead in those rooms, and what it costs to be one of the few women in them.
That way of working wasn't sustainable, so I created the spaces I couldn't find — ones where discernment, presence and honest reflection are possible, especially when the stakes are high. This has been my work for the past twenty years.
I’m also a Founding Partner at The Curious Company, where a major part of our work has centered on women and girls — with Maverick Collective, Marin Community Foundation, OLLY, the Gates Foundation and Stanford’s Global Center for Gender Equality. Supporting women is still the work, now one leader and one team at a time.
I work alongside facilitators, strategists and healers who inspire me daily. Many are long relationships, with some of the most talented people I’ve worked with. Twenty-six years of co-leading Curious has taught me more about partnership than any framework could — experience I bring to my work with other co-leads.
adrienne maree brown, Prentis Hemphill, Otto Scharmer, and Jack Kornfield have all shaped my understanding of courage and embodiment. Each has taught me valuable lessons about how to stay engaged with the world without hardening.
I'm a graduate of the Authentic Leadership Program at Naropa University, a certified Co-Active Coach, and certified in the Leadership Circle Profile, an elegant 360º leadership assessment. I'm an ongoing student at the Strozzi Institute of Somatics, and completed Politics of Trauma 2.0 with Staci Haines and Erika Lyla.
Outside of work, I am a partner and a parent of two remarkable humans. Living close to the land and tending bees has become its own practice — one that teaches me about patience and interdependence, and keeps me grounded in wonder.