Member since December 2022
Star Dargin, PCC, CPCC, and VC, has been the CEO of Star Leadership for 20+ years. As a leadership coach, she’s logged over 10,000 hours with intelligent managers. She helps them find practical solutions and build critical skills that deliver sustainable and measurable results using a positive and direct approach.
Star Dargin has built a diverse resume across multiple industries and leadership positions before founding Star Leadership nearly twenty years ago. Star has led both domestic and international teams. Her roles include Director of Engineering, Project Manager, and International Program Manager.
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Leadership, Innovation, and Gratitude.
Learning, Reading, Facilitation, Coaching, and Speaking.
When Star began, there were few female engineering managers. ‘Women are too emotional to be good managers,’ and ‘Check with your husband first [before taking a business trip]’ are just a few of the comments made to her.
Once, when she suggested a technical alternative, a Senior VP threw a coke can aimed directly at Star. “I froze, and then I learned how to speak up and get stuff done!”
At that point, she was committed to change, which helped her overcome many implied and actual biases.
She also learned and embraced the on-the-job management and leadership strategies she now brings to her clients.
Star’s conscious gratitude practice started over 20 years ago when she felt like she was living in a soap opera. She was married with two kids; her husband was a serial cheater; she got divorced, and six months later, her ex-husband passed away unexpectedly and left a big financial mess that took over ten years to untangle. And at the same time, she had just left a high-paying corporate job for a high-paying job and started Star Leadership. It was a Hallmark Holiday movie because there was a happy ending.
It was gratitude that healed her. It required conscious daily practice. She journaled. It wasn’t easy at times. Some days it was simply, “I’m grateful to be alive.”
Then five years ago, she started reading hundreds of scientific research articles on gratitude.
It turns out there is a science that proves gratitude works. Nuns who were grateful lived seven years longer, people healed 30% faster after the operation, and grateful leaders took more risks and were more successful.
Gratitude is easy to hold on to for a few minutes, but a must needs daily exercise. It HAS huge rewards AND lots of challenges.
Practical gratitude is what Star teaches and speaks about. She’s created a list of 18 common challenges that get in the way of gratitude, healing, and being transformational. She shares the challenges of gratitude and how to overcome them so that you can hold that gratitude for longer than a minute and reap the healing and transformation.
When everyone practices and has strong gratitude muscles, the world heels and transforms into something better. Let Star show you.
When Star began, there were few female engineering managers. ‘Women are too emotional to be good managers,’ and ‘Check with your husband first [before taking a business trip]’ are just a few of the comments made to her.
Once, when she suggested a technical alternative, a Senior VP threw a coke can aimed directly at Star. “I froze, and then I learned how to speak up and get stuff done!”
At that point, she was committed to change, which helped her overcome many implied and actual biases.
She also learned and embraced the on-the-job management and leadership strategies she now brings to her clients.
Star’s conscious gratitude practice started over 20 years ago when she felt like she was living in a soap opera. She was married with two kids; her husband was a serial cheater; she got divorced, and six months later, her ex-husband passed away unexpectedly and left a big financial mess that took over ten years to untangle. And at the same time, she had just left a high-paying corporate job for a high-paying job and started Star Leadership. It was a Hallmark Holiday movie because there was a happy ending.
It was gratitude that healed her. It required conscious daily practice. She journaled. It wasn’t easy at times. Some days it was simply, “I’m grateful to be alive.”
Then five years ago, she started reading hundreds of scientific research articles on gratitude.
It turns out there is a science that proves gratitude works. Nuns who were grateful lived seven years longer, people healed 30% faster after the operation, and grateful leaders took more risks and were more successful.
Gratitude is easy to hold on to for a few minutes, but a must needs daily exercise. It HAS huge rewards AND lots of challenges.
Practical gratitude is what Star teaches and speaks about. She’s created a list of 18 common challenges that get in the way of gratitude, healing, and being transformational. She shares the challenges of gratitude and how to overcome them so that you can hold that gratitude for longer than a minute and reap the healing and transformation.
When everyone practices and has strong gratitude muscles, the world heels and transforms into something better. Let Star show you.