About Colleen Dolan Vinetz

Accredited coach and consultant Colleen Dolan Vinetz helps clients identify their highest goals and take the necessary steps to achieve them. With over 15 years of experience working in business and entertainment, Colleen provides creative professionals with the tools they need to succeed.

Colleen's practice is focused on individual coaching as well as coaching groups in a business setting. Vinetz completed her training at The Coach's Training Institute in San Rafael, CA, gaining ACC accreditation from the International Coach Federation (ICF). Most recently, Colleen furthered her training with study of Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching, a cutting edge organizational development program concentrating on professional groups of two or more. Today Colleen specializes in helping creative professionals and teams take their careers to the next level, whether it be transitioning into new endeavors or optimizing success in current pursuits. Colleen’s clients range from entertainment professionals to business owners, entrepreneurs, writers, producers, directors, agents and artists.

Colleen comes to coaching from 12 years working as an agent in Hollywood. After working at several top firms, she became partner and owner of a boutique talent agency in Hollywood. Here Colleen honed skills that would translate seamlessly to her future coaching career. “Helping creative people set goals and take the steps to actualize their dreams turned out to be my calling," she recounts. Prior to her career on the West coast, Colleen completed high school in Toronto, studying English and Drama at the University of Toronto. She later pursued Drama Studies at HB Studios in New York.

Growing up in an unconventional family environment, Colleen attended 13 different schools and lived in diverse locales such as Sausalito, CA, Taos, NM and Bowen Island, BC. “I had a lot of life experience at a young age and I am a survivor of that,” she explains. “I learned how to make lightning quick assessments of a situation and what the choices are, and to navigate my way through them. These skills are what my career has been based on.”