About Our Company

We help leaders get real results and build organizations where people and ideas thrive.

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Leaders Driving Real Change

We partner with leaders and their teams who want their organizations to truly reflect their deepest values. Our role is to help you find your own answers to drive your operations, strategies and innovation completely aligned with those values and your boldest vision. Every engagement is customized to your company’s unique culture, leveraging strengths while addressing blind spots.

Tailored, Practical and Engaged

Our approach is simple—but not always easy. We work with clients to clarify what matters most and see where their organization is today versus where they want to go.

What sets us apart: every relevant stakeholder contributes to the plan. When the people who will implement the change help create it, results stick. Ownership, alignment, and meaningful impact happen naturally when your team is fully engaged.

The Mission That Drives Us

Our Guiding Values

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Brad Britton – Principal Principal

Brad has spent 30-plus years helping leaders and teams find their own answers—and then actually act on them. As founder of Britton Coaching and Consulting, he's known for getting people to simply work well together.

Brad is the founder of Britton Coaching and Consulting, Inc. He works with senior leaders, teams, and whole organizations on strategic planning, organizational development, leadership development, and executive coaching. His approach blends honest assessment, strong facilitation, and coaching to help clients build strategies that hold up in the real world.

Over a 30-plus year career, Brad has coached hundreds of leaders and teams and built the kind of alignment where people actually want to fulfill the mission. His work spans Fortune 500 companies in technology, banking, health care, and engineering, along with significant projects across the government and non-profit sectors.

Clients come back to Brad to reinvigorate their teams, shape a shared vision they truly believe in, and put the practices in place that turn that vision into bottom-line results. He has a knack for cutting through the drama that pulls teams away from their best work—clearing out the internal roadblocks and surfacing the talent and resources that were there all along. At his core, he believes people already hold their own answers; his job is to help them use what they've got and get everyone rowing in the same direction.

Brad is a lifelong learner. His background runs from formal degrees in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) and Public Administration (MPA) to years of advanced training with some of the best minds in group dynamics, organizational development, leadership, and human development.

Brad lives in San Luis Obispo, California with his wife and two sons, where the year-round mild weather keeps him outdoors and reminds him how things work best in balance. He's happiest hiking, on the basketball court, on the golf course, and with family.

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Our Partners

Brad collaborates with a team of experienced consultants to bring clients the expertise needed to achieve real results.

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Dara Ayres

Dara Ayres, MPA, CPC, PCC, is the owner/principal of Dara Ayres Consulting, and a leadership coach/consultant driven by a desire to ignite transformation in leaders, teams, and organizations.

Dara uses a strengths-based and collaborative approach in her work with teams and organizations offering team coaching, retreat design and facilitation, and organization development focused on culture, transformation, and human-centered leadership. Dara helps teams have conversations that matter, find alignment and clear direction, and drive toward extraordinary.

Through her one-on-one coaching, Dara helps leaders truly thrive by uncovering blind spots, building self-awareness and emotional intelligence, and shifting their mindset to create new habits and lasting change. She brings a curiosity and optimism to her work that clients describe as energizing, uplifting and therapeutic. 

Prior to becoming a consultant and coach, Dara worked for 17 years inside organizations leading and managing teams, building effective systems, strategies, and programs. She holds a MPA in Public Policy & Governance from the University of Washington with concentrations in organization development and management. Dara is an iPEC certified professional coach (CPC) and credentialed by the International Coaching Federation (PCC).

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Lucan Pipkin

Lucan Pipkin, PCC, is an organization development and change management consultant, facilitator, trainer, entrepreneur, and certified executive coach with over 25 years of experience leading enterprise-wide change, organizational effectiveness, and team and leadership development efforts across the federal, state, and local government, as well as private, non-profit, and community sectors. She specializes in the human side of change, which can so often trip up the achievement of the greatest of visions. She works with leaders to expand their impact through deepening their emotional and social intelligence. Her work is based in neuroscience, emotional and somatic intelligence, mindfulness, systems thinking, adaptive leadership, agile, design thinking, and appreciative inquiry. Lucan is known for her swift intuition and ability to navigate complexity, her authenticity and ability to connect deeply with people, and her ability to see the big picture and keep a group or individual focused on their desired outcomes.

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Maggie Larkin

25+ years consulting with executives across Fortune 500 companies and startups. Specializes in corporate culture and executive development.

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Kevin Coray, Ph.D.

Industrial and organizational psychologist with 30+ years improving performance. Expert in strategic planning, change management, and team effectiveness.

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How We Stand Out

  • We are great at bridging vision into practical actions
  • We really do believe in starting with your strengths
  • Co-creation isn’t just a catch phrase we love partnering a deep level
  • We are in it with you for as long as it takes and no longer
  • Long-Term Partnerships

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