Your CoachVille Team

As a coach, your Team is everyone who shares your Dream! Your customers, your employees, your colleagues, your boss (if you have one), your advocates, your community members, your friends, and your family. We encourage you to think broadly, boldly and generously when you imagine the team that will live into your dream and loves it as much as you do!

Team CoachVille

All of our amazing CoachVille Members around the world form Team CoachVille. Together we co-create powerful resources for coaches in pursuit of humanity playing better! Learn about Team CoachVille here.

Our CoachVille Team

We are thrilled to introduce you to our team. Together we serve our global team of over 38,000+ Members and 4,000+ Alumni transforming the world with great coaching!

Dave Buck | CEO, MCC, MBA, MCC, and Head Coach

Dave is the Chief Celebrant at CoachVille.  Enthusiasm and infectious energy are the original hallmarks of Coach Dave. He holds a deep desire to change the world through coaching and empower coaches and leaders worldwide.

He sees a way beyond bureaucracy, beyond rules to a way of truly living. He is inspiring and challenging coaches worldwide to become masterful, game-changing coaches and leaders.

His superpowers: champion of the spirit of play, life-changing conversations, and profound transformation. He is here to lead you from Industrial Age thinking to the Connected Age of Purpose and Play.

He is a Master Certified Coach and MBA, a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council and of course, the CEO of CoachVille.

Read Coach Dave’s detailed bio here.

Deanna Stull | PCC, Chief Experience Officer

Deanna’s dream is to create a space where people learn to live courageously from a deep place and climb BIG mountains.

When you talk to Deanna, it is inevitable that you will get excited about life and it’s infinite possibilities.

Deanna is a champion of bold self-expression. Her superpowers include: creating profound belonging in a single conversation, as well as relentless energy and a freakish sense of timing.

She is our student advisor and interviewer. Nobody gets into our school until they talk to Deanna first! And it could be one of the most transformational conversations you ever have.

Deanna has a wild entrepreneurial background. She was the “founding mother” of the infamous School of Rock.

Ales Vrana, PCC

Ales has a big dream to transform the Czech Republic with coaching and the spirit of play, and he is going to do it!

His superpower is mutation! He has the ability to look at a challenge or a limitation and transform it into a fun growth opportunity.

Ales is passionate about teaching others how to see life as a game and then play with an all-in mentality. Ales brings this passion to some of the most innovative firms in the Czech Republic. His enthusiasm for life is infectious.

Linda Drake

Linda is the master of student services. Her desire to be sure that every student feels certain about their experience at CoachVille creates a profound sense of belonging. She she’s so deeply connected to our student body that she has nearly every student on speed dial.

Linda goes to great lengths to ensure our students feel at home, feel included and understand what’s next for them in their journey. Her compassion and caring are influential for all of us. She is the superhero of inclusion, as no one CoachVille ever left behind thanks to Linda. She is here to be sure you feel like you are part of our connected and amazing CoachVille family.

Linda is behind the scenes at CoachVille and has been supporting members for many years. She’s a speech therapist by education and a ‘Jill-of-all-trades’ by passion.

Linda’s an avid lifelong learner and a college football fan. She also enjoys the NFL and MLB as well as photography and historical preservation.