CDFA congratulates this year’s graduates of CDFA’s Coaching for Personal and Professional Effectiveness Program.
The coaching program is customized to each participant to help them lead and succeed in leadership positions. The curriculum includes group and individual learnings, various personality and assessment tools, and customized one-on-one professional coaching sessions.
Taught by Professional Coach Barzin Moradi, Ph.D., branch chief of the Center for Analytical Chemistry in CDFA’s Division of Inspection Services, this growth-oriented program aligns directly with the CDFA Strategic Plan goal of empowering a “Robust and Innovative CDFA Workforce.”
“Members of this cohort reflected and shared that their most noticeable growth areas included improved self-confidence, better awareness and leveraging of their strengths, improved relationships at work and at home, and clarity in seeing their role in a bigger picture at work,” Dr. Moradi said. “I look forward to how the concepts presented and practiced may benefit their personal lives, current professional settings and future careers.”
Congratulations to this year’s graduates, including:
- Karen Adler, Fertilizer Research and Education Program
- Laura Bradley, Animal Health and Food Safety Services
- Alexander Ellyson, Office of Budgets and Program Analysis
- Spencer LaVelle, California Agricultural Statistics Service
- Benjamin Reische, Produce Safety Program
- Scott Renteria, California State Organic Program
- Jefferson Scott, California State Organic Program
- Dinusha Siriwardena, Center for Analytical Chemistry
- Valerie White, Commercial Feed Regulatory Program