Dianne Earley is an International Coaching Federation-certified executive coach, and principal of D.EARLEY COACHING & CONSULTING, LLC. Her client list includes corporate and non-profit executives, aspiring leaders and business owners.

With over 25 years of sales and operations leadership experience, she is skilled at helping leaders deliver bottom line results, capture market share and maximize the growth potential of their team members. Throughout her own career, she succeeded in highly competitive environments and has been a champion of diversity and inclusion.

In 2004 she joined the advertising sales division of Cox Communications, a Cox Enterprises company based in Atlanta, Georgia. She served first as Corporate Vice President of National Sales, and later as Vice President of Advertising Sales for the Virginia region. In 2012 she shifted gears from advertising to automotive when she was appointed Mid-Atlantic Market Vice President for Manheim, a division of Cox Automotive, and led 5 of the company’s wholesale automobile auction operations with over 1,000 team members. She was promoted to Corporate Vice President of Sales Operations for Manheim where her areas of responsibility included sales strategy, sales effectiveness, compensation administration and leadership development. Prior to joining Cox, Dianne excelled in advertising sales and sales leadership positions with various media companies including ABC Radio, Jefferson-Pilot Broadcasting, Gannett Broadcasting and Comcast Corporation.

During her corporate tenure, Savoy Magazine named her one of the “Top Influential Women in Corporate America” and she was named a “Woman Worth Watching” by The Profiles in Diversity Journal. She also won numerous awards including The Touchstones In Leadership “Catalyst” Award from Women in Cable and Telecommunications.

Dianne is a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Communication, an alumna of the NAMIC Executive Leadership Development Program at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and of the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute. She also serves as Board Chair for TOUCH-The Black Breast Cancer Alliance. Originally from Washington, D.C., she splits her time between South Florida and Northern Virginia, always with her “road dog” toy poodle Bella in tow.