About Anese Cavanaugh

Energy, leadership, and… boots.

Anese, founder of Dare To Engage®, is a trusted thought leader, coach, and thinking partner to entrepreneurial and mission focused leaders and business owners who are committed to creating energized cultures, healthy leadership, and positive results. She specializes in working with individuals and groups to create a “leadership from the inside out” mindset, addressing external factors as secondary and calling all leaders to own and optimize their impact and presence through the power of energy leadership, intention, authenticity, and relationships.

Working with clients to solve problems and create opportunities in the areas of leadership, collaboration, energy management, and life design, she uses a hybrid approach of coaching, consulting, teaching, and “whatever it takes” as best serves the client. She is known for her energy, commitment, and ability to meet clients where they’re at while they create their most congruent and internally inspired solutions. With a philosophy that the more successful and influential you become, the more important it is to “do the work”, her clients commit to growth and playing a bigger game.

With credentials in kinesiology, coaching, leadership, wellness, and other training disciplines, she brings a diverse and holistic approach to her work. She nicknamed this core philosophy “Bootism®” in 2009 to reflect the integration of the “holistic + personal + business + leadership + inside-out + boots” approach. Name or no name, this approach has been integrated into organizations like Zingerman’s and many of her clients’ lives. In addition to a proven track record for impact working individually and organizationally with clients, she has authored hundreds of articles, written 3 books (2 including chapters with Jack Canfield and others), was named a “Professional Woman of the Year” in coaching/training/mentoring in 2010, and is fascinated with energy, leadership and the human spirit.

Believing that a physical practice is essential to optimal energy and leadership, she engages regularly in Bikram Yoga, running, and hiking. Married, with two children, and two dogs, she recently relocated from Chicago back to Northern California.