Aligning Inner Truth and Outward Action

Whether you're building a life that finally fits who you are, navigating a marriage with intention, leading an organization ready to thrive, or securing the funding your mission deserves, you've found the right place. This is the work of becoming free personally and professionally.

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Your Invitation to Liberation and Joy.

Move from Performing to Living Free

Hello, I'm Dr. Dawn Riley Duval – Certified Organizational and Leadership Coach, ICF-Credentialed (ACC), Grant Writing Professor, Public Speaker, and Hall of Fame Athlete. I have worked with leaders across nonprofit, faith-based, higher education, and military contexts.

For years, I said what people wanted me to say, wrote what they wanted me to write, performed the version of professional they expected. Whether you are trained to lead a unit or trained to run a boardroom, you know that level of performance.

Then I got free.

Free me is focused on health, wholeness, liberation, and joy. Free me coaches from the inside of my own journey, not outside. In the past year I lost 60 pounds of hormonal weight during perimenopause, with the support of my own life coach, a GLP-1 medication, and a health routine I built from the ground up. I have navigated burnout, professional reinvention, and the deep work of aligning my faith and calling with how I actually live. I know what it costs to do this work and I know what it produces.

Ready to get free personally and professionally?

Let's begin.

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Services

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Coaching

For individuals and organizations

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Grant Writing
Courses & Workshops

Learn to approach grant writing not just as a technical skill, but as a sustainable practice of wholeness.

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Speaker & Facilitator

For keynotes, presentations, retreats, and interactive trainings.

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Coaching Packages

Three Practices. One Conviction.

Inner truth, like water, moves. It finds its way through resistance, around obstacles, and into every corner of a life that is determined to receive it. Each of these coaching practices exists to honor that truth and help it flow into the fullness of your life.

  • Liquid Living

    Individual Coaching

    Liquid Living is for the moment you realize you've been standing at the shore of your own abundant life, feeling it, sensing it, but not yet moving into it. These four 90-day coaching experiences are for people ready to start flowing boldly – in your body, your work, your spirit, your day-to-day. Real, rippling change doesn’t come from pushing harder. It comes from closing the distance between who you know yourself to be and how you actually live. You already know who you are. The work here is learning to live like it.

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  • From Yes to Forever

    Pre-Marital Coaching

    This coaching helps engaged couples build the relational clarity, shared vision, and loving confidence that carries them from the wedding day into the marriage itself. Including "Our Yes," a living document authored together that carries couples from the beginning of their yes journey all the way to forever.

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  • Training Table

    Organizational Coaching for Teams

    In athletics the training table is a required ritual for eating meals, daily gatherings that fuel individual peak performance and drive collective success. Training Table brings this same standard to organizational coaching, treating every team member as a leader worthy of investment. A week of whole-team coaching alternates with a week of individual leadership coaching for each person, until the organization retains what serves it best, a team that is evolving professionally and personally, carrying the work forward with creativity and commitment, season after season.

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Testimonials

Dr. Dawn isn't your typical leadership coach. She gets to the root of what's really blocking you. The change in me has been remarkable, not just in my business results, but in how I show up for myself and others. This coaching changes you profoundly."

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Angela E, Coaching Client

“This training was uplifting, very informative, and energizing which is hard for a lot of civilians to do with a military audience. Great work, Dr. Dawn.”

U.S. Military Training Participant, SHARP Program

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