Derrick Yanford
One Powerful Coach

Derrick Yanford · Transformation Specialist

I help my clients go from great to fucking fantastic.

I ask the questions nobody in your life would dare ask you and point out what you can't see on your own. Through my process, the leaders, creatives, and entrepreneurs I work with get full access to their power, so greatness stops being a place to get to and becomes the place they come from.

In their words

Derrick is very present during the session and doesn't miss a beat of what's happening in my internal thought process. Masterful!
Vincent L.
He was able to sit with me and dig through layers of thoughts and emotions to find the point that was really holding me back.
Christian K.
If you are seeking a powerful coach who can disrupt your faulty mindset and connect you to a more honest mindset of your higher potential, then connect with Derrick!
Tony H.

What changes

Here's what shifts.

I work one-to-one with leaders, creatives, and entrepreneurs who've forgotten how powerful they are.

Clear under pressure

Have the uncomfortable conversation with a nervous system that has your back. Your decisions come from presence, and your fear stays in the passenger seat.

Stress Proof Leadership

Pressure, conflict, the decisions that keep you up at night. Leadership brings all of it. You get the tools to meet every bit of it rested, resilient and unshaken.

Fearless. Fully you.

Your instinct becomes your edge. Your voice carries real power. You stop playing it safe and lead as exactly who you are.

How it works

What's now. What's next. What's in the way.

That gap is where we work. Together, we close it.

01

We talk

A short conversation. I ask a few pointed questions about where you are, where you want to go and what's stopping you. From there we'll both know if a deeper conversation makes sense.

02

We play

You bring the problem. I bring the questions nobody else will ask you. Insights land that you hadn't even considered, and you start seeing your world differently.

03

You turn your power switches on

Shifts happen. You leave with one small action and start operating as the person you came to become. That's only the beginning.

Derrick Yanford
Clients worldwide

About Derrick

I've been preparing for this my whole life.

In every arena I've stepped into, I've led from the front of the room.

Professional dancer by 15. NYU dance major, college ballet professor, artistic director and award-winning choreographer. The stage taught me presence.

Then a second career in New York real estate at Citi Habitats and Corcoran. High pressure, high stakes. I watched brilliant people burn out, and I knew it wasn't my life's work.

Now I coach. My method, Auto Transcendent Awareness (ATA), blends stress regulation, breathwork and somatic work, so my clients lead from presence, groundedness and awareness. Once you have that, everything changes.

Play, travel, laughterMy real-time signs that life is on track. I want them for you too.
Presence over effortThe deepest change happens when you stop forcing it.
PrideI am a proud, gay, bi-racial man, and I bring all of me to this work. You're invited to do the same.

I am not for everybody, and everybody is not for me.

If you're ready,
so am I.

Answer a few short questions and I'll reach out personally. We'll talk about where you are, where you want to be, and whether we're a fit. Sessions happen by video, wherever you are in the world.

Let's talk → Or write me directly: derrick@derrickyanford.com