Mimi Darmstadter

Mimi Darmstadter is an executive coach and a seasoned leader in the Human Resources field (e.g. learning and performance) with over 20 years of experience, spanning government, non-profit, and corporate environments. She launched her own coaching and HR consulting firm, My Life’s Work – Coaching & Consulting LLC, six years ago. She is also the co-founder Working MAMA, a group-coaching program for high-achieving working moms.

In all her professional activities, Mimi’s foremost goal is to support individual success and satisfaction in “work,” broadly defined. Mimi’s coaching with clients emphasizes new levels of self-awareness, skill, and behavior that her clients seek to build professional/personal capacity in their work/home roles and/or make desired shifts in their career identity.

Areas of Mimi’s areas of topical interest/expertise include individual growth and capacity building, leadership development, employee lifecycle issues (on-boarding, performance management, individual development planning, retention), workforce engagement, diversity/ inclusion, communication skills, emotional intelligence, mindfulness/stress management, and team building.

She designs and leads training curricula and workshops on the same topics.

Mimi is certified in a number of assessments, including the Strong Career Inventory, the EQi 2.0 self-assessment and 360 tools, DiSC, and PDI Ninth House’s Profilor 360 instrument. She is also a certified trainer through Development Dimensions International (DDI).

Mimi prior professional experience includes 12 years of employment for Covance Inc., a global contract research organization in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. She served in increasingly senior Human Resources roles, completing her tenure as its Senior Manager for Training and Development

Mimi earned a double Bachelors Degree in Psychology/Creative Writing from the University Michigan where she was the recipient of a Hopwood Award for Underclassman Fiction Writing. Her Masters Degree in Social Work is from the University of Chicago. She completed Georgetown University’s Leadership Coaching Program.

Mimi’s personal interests include watching independent films, creative writing, and working out including yoga and teaching cycling (“spinning”) classes. She resides in Bethesda, Maryland.